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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ball and chain

Like a ball and chain we drag our histories along with us,
Bearing their weight through our impressioned mind.

Our constant concerns sustain these stories,
Smothering us like layers of an archeological dig.

We're surrounded by our fossilized memories,
Floundering in their tangled knots.

Unless we fathom true forgetfulness of our shadow self,
Unless we recognize the Beloved's self-effacing fire.

not to disparage

You talk a great deal about longing, the longing to awaken.

That's so.

But doesn't that just reinforce the ego-mind that you seem to disparage and seek to dispense with?

First of all, there's no disparaging of the ego-mind. Without it, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And it's not a matter of trying to get rid of it, simply it's a fact of life that no real inner change can happen unless and until something in us accepts that there is something greater than who we think we are, that that is our right and birthright, that the mind as we know it will submit to the heart's one demand, its longing to awaken.

OK, so you mean this longing doesn't stem from ego-mind's wants, its likes and dislikes?

Of course it can pose as such, but that just guarantees no real traction, no real movement out of the usual daily trance. In a nutshell the longing that counts is not from us as we usually thing of ourselves. It would carry no expectations and so no seeds of disappointment. Fulfilled in itself, it wouldn't be traded for the world. At the same time, it could be quite upsetting and disrupting to our status quo.

Then how would you describe where such longing comes from?

That's something we could know only when mind is still and heart is open. We could say it is unconscious God or Self longing to become conscious God or Self, but what can that possibly mean unless we arrive at some inner threshold of awareness, of being, where the impact of an undeniable experiencing of this takes place?

stepping up voltage

Last time you mentioned stepping up the spiritual voltage.

Yes, but any significant change, and spiritual 'progress,' isn't primarily registered by the ego-mind, it's none of its business. If our conditioned mind is doing the monitoring and measuring, it's likely adding more layers of delusion to the situation.

OK, the obvious question: what's to be done to avoid that?

Standing on, holding on to that central place in us, that point of remembrance that invites higher influence to do its job.

How to find that place, how to hold on?

Well, not to be overlooked is the exercise of discrimination. You could call that heart's wisdom plumbing the depths of any experience, be it a twist or turn, a byway or highway, or even a blind alley in one's ongoing. In other words, an honest recognition of when one is on track or not to that central place, that point of connection in us. Bottom line: any real influence emanates from the divine, from a source beyond the experiences of all journeying, and being able to recognize this is what really counts.

sounds radical

Any more thoughts about being receptive to Real Self, to the Divine Beloved?

First, to ramp things up, it takes inner strength to bear the brunt of a basic delusion--that you aren't who or what you think you are.

Sounds radical.

Yes, a radical shift of identity. The good news is that this could result in becoming more truly and fully oneself.

And secondly?

It's not really sequential, but it amounts to revisiting our point of inner contact--our anchor, our connecting point to what's beyond ego-mind.

And that is?

Each one's connection to Real Self, the Divine Beloved, knowing and feeling that influence in ever new ways.

Which accomplishes?

A stepping up of the spiritual voltage that dismantles our conditioned mind.