First, the name ‘Awakening in Life’ implies that ‘awakening’ has often been taken a having an ultimate goal of going beyond life (otherwise, there’s no need to say ‘in Life’). Classically, awakening has meant some flavor of transcending or escaping life because life itself is seen as inherently suffering, including even the temporary happiness that arises in it. Now, as you’ll see in this guide there is in fact some partial truth to this, but that approach leaves our awakening experience, our individual life, and our collective existence, fragmented.