Awakening sense

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Who awakens? Not you or I but our inner true Self, that core that is covered and encrusted by who we think we are.

Themes presented in the eBook Awakening's Treasure continue to unfold in these weekly posts.

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a personal darkness

What does remembrance and relation to the divine do,
But amplify the Beloved's constant active force?

What effect on us can this have,
But the wearing away of our bindings?

What is meant by our bindings,
But the very structure underlying our false self?

It all amounts to the dismantling of our personal darkness,
The darkness that feeds a self-absorbed state.

anybody home?

What do you make of anyone claiming awareness that they are not the doer of action, as in 'nobody's home,' 'there's no I or me here'?

I would say 'watch out!' Most such claims are likely premature, made by someone unprepared to make them. One way to escape self-absorption is to relate to Personal or Impersonal Self as the only doer (you could say that ultimately there is no small doer or even large Doer, only the Source of all doing, often referred to as the witness). Of course even that is no guarantee ego-mind won't subvert your practice.

As in "I'm not responsible, it's out of my hands?"

Sure, as in anything goes, hey it's crazy wisdom in action. The alternative: a state of sincere remembrance of the Beloved, realizing that all doing ultimately has one goal, awakening to Self.

Is that really enough?

Then trying to serve this wish to awaken as one not coming from me as I am, rather from Real Self, a real wish. Doing my best but the results are none of my business.

Still not foolproof.

Nothing is. We just have to be willing to be foolish, to acknowledge our actual helplessness, to stand firm before the tidal wave of our lacks.

millimeter of movement

What is recognition of spirit, that place of true integration,
But to locate one's doorway to the Beloved's presence?

Where to find that place of remembrance,
But with a millimeter of movement, an inner turning around.

Ego-mind may search far and wide for a starting point,
A point that never exists in our imagination's realm.

How to get this but to know this without knowing it,
To feel it without feeling it with this usual mind.

of supreme benefit

Can you name two benefits to the practice of remembrance?

Only two? Two do come to mind, but describing them as beneficial can be misleading.

In what way?

Yes, supremely beneficial in themselves, yet very costly to our usual ego-mind mode of being.

That aside, what would they be?

First, an eating away, a gradual invaluable erosion of the rust that clogs up our consciousness. Second, a freeing up of awareness, a fresh mindfulness automatically resulting as mind's habitual patters aren't being reinforced, leaving us in a more open and spontaneous state of being.

And I assume this state of being can grow over time?

It's the basis of a new center of gravity, of new possibilities as a provisional or transitional ego is developed.