The Unbecoming To Become

In this thought-provoking talk episode, Rivera explores the paradox of awakening, the idea that true enlightenment is not about adding layers of wisdom or identity, but gently releasing them. Unbecome to Become invites listeners to question the illusion of spiritual greatness and to see that the path home is not one of becoming more, but of becoming nothing.

Through reflective insight and truth, Rivera guides us into the silence beneath the self, the sacred space where death is not an end, but a return to origin. This talk episode reminds us that the real awakening begins when we let go of who we think we are, and allow the infinite to move through us, as us.

Transcript

Let's delve into unbecome to become Welcome,

I am your host cease Rivera today,

I want to invite you into a question a question that doesn't seek an answer but rather a dissolving What if we have to awaken from the awakening?

Itself What if?

True enlightenment Isn't found in becoming more but in becoming less What if the real path is?

Not about adding light but shedding illusion Not about finding ourselves,

But on becoming everything we thought we were We spent so much of our lives searching for purpose for meaning For something to define us we meditate we pray we seek spiritual mastery thinking that one day Will finally arrive at peace at enlightenment at greatness but what if the arrival is Actually a disappearance What if the true homecoming is the death of everything we once believed was me When the ego awakens it often disguises itself as spirit It starts saying I am awakened.

I am evolved.

I am enlightened But in that very statement we are still trapped in the illusion of self Still holding on to a spiritual identity that wants to become something The truth is more silent than that It's the space between thoughts The breath between beginnings and ending It's the death that comes before death the surrender of needing to be anything at all to unbecome means to empty out to remove every label the Therapist the parent the teacher the healer the spiritual being and stand naked Before existence itself When there's nothing left to defend nothing to prove That's when life finally reads through us effortlessly When we return home to nothing We aren't losing we are remembering We are returning to the origin before the name before the body before the thought I am That is where the infinite begins Not in what we gain but in what we release To die while living is the greatest act of awakening to embrace in Impermanence to dissolve into silence to see the sacred in the ordinary in That space the boundaries of you and me disappear There's only Being only consciousness only what is and Maybe that's what death really is not an ending but emerging Not a loss,

But a return to the source the final unbecoming So today I ask you not to strive to become more enlightened But to question everything that stands in the way of your happiness and your nothingness Let the mass fall Let the rolls fade let the river of your being flow back into the ocean of the infinite Because only when you become nothing do we truly become everything