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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staying flexible

You've talked about a transitional self...

Yes, an intermediary of sorts between our false/conditioned self and Real Self.

Real Self with a capital R..

The One Real Self, not a series of them. Maybe this transitional self could be called that operating center in us which best serves the interests of our real self, lower case. Some might call this real self the soul, the drop which ultimately becomes the Ocean.

So we're talking about that which is most aligned with Real Self, upper case.

I've also called transitional self our awakening-self and transitional ego. It could just as well be called our possible self.

Why so many terms?

To avoid fixating, getting stuck. Staying flexible but not so fluid there's nothing to work with. We still need stepping stones.

repackaging

When the personality alone tries to apprehend spirituality,
That's the perfect setup for institutions, conferences and organizations.

Insights get repackaged for ego-mind's own designs,
And, redirected, wind up at a dead end.

What's needed is a deeper contact beyond personality's grasp,
To touch what's truly intimate, the Beloved's presence.

How can who we think we are even fathom this matter,
Unless we're first willing to truly step aside?

breaking free

Religion may say that justice and mercy are two aspects of God,
Could we say they are also awakening's push and pull?

Can we say the one helps dissolve our unresolved baggage,
The other bestows the inspiration to break free?

Over-focus on the baggage can overload with despair,
Assuming grace is a given can lead to laxity or carelessness.

What's to be done but to remember the Beloved more and more,
To open the heart to an ever-present flame.

drifting downstream

What's the beginning and end of the spiritual journey?

It's fair to say there's no end, no beginning, no real journey, so long  we're dominated by ego-mind's desires and directives.

So no spiritual movement in our present state?

It's not a question of movement, more a matter of being adrift so long we're moved about by our reactions to life's currents.

Sounds like drifting downstream..

Or just a constant, unending flow; repetitive movements through lifetimes that gradually wear away our resistances to real change.

Leading to a beginning then.

Without a center there's nothing to journey to. Without the Beloved's presence there's no way to light that path. Once true relation to the Beloved begins, real effacement begins. The the path begins to follow us on our way to where the center is really everywhere.