Awakening, especially from a Zen perspective, is about just that, opening our eyes to the reality immediately before us; it’s not about doing anything in particular with it. We must realize what the Dzogchen Masters term the “innate, great perfection of things left just as they are.”

It’s so very easy to trade the ideal for the real, and to lose our lives in the process of consistently striving for some particular vision of reality, while never being with the one we actually have. This is a pitfall common to religious expressions that idealize other-worldly salvation, be it in the heaven of a three tiered universe, or in some sukhavati (pure land).

Be it in theistic traditions like Catholicism or nontheistic traditiona like Buddhism, ethics are morality are totally relative, we can not like it, and vie against moral relativism all we like, but again, the real and the ideal frequently do not mesh, and the cogs in the machine of reality are much stronger than those of ideality.

Best to wake up to our lives, find meaning, liberation, and an invitation to non-ado in this moment, and then we might actually become the individual agents for social change that we may be, after all, change is real, it needs no particular urging by us, we’re a part of it after all, for as long as we are. Our duty is to simply show up, moment by moment.

Awakening really is about rejoining our lives already in progress. No need to Buddhisize everything...appealing to such authority is a logical fallacy.