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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puppet thoughts

What is this term 'spirituality' that we toss around?

Well, real spirituality isn't to delight or even enlighten the ego-mind.
It aims at a target far deeper, beyond ego-mind's domain.

So it has to do with the elimination of the limited ego-mind.

Yes, and in the meantime this ego-mind scrambles to fall in line, to be of service to something greater than itself.

And how can it even attempt to do that?

It may not be able to do much, but it can accept being subservient to a transitional self that grows as we align ourselves with the Beloved's/God's/Self's activity in and through us.

Does that make us puppets?

Just animated when self-absorbed; only fully alive when Self-absorbed.

hog-tied

If we are bound up with who we think we are,
It's like being tied hand and foot while blindfolded.

We're surrounded by a darkness that disallows light,
Truth's light, not just low brow psychic fireworks.

What does it take to dismantle this darkness,
To dismember it fiber by fiber?

Can we be willing to let ourselves be undone,
By inviting the Beloved's ever-present presence?

a hidden poison

Even an open heart can remain in the dark,
When cloaked by ego-mind's many veils.

Why not at least a semipermeable mind,
Letting a few drops of grace fall where they may?

Sounds innocent enough but there's hidden poison there,
Guided by an intelligence highly corrosive to mind' fetters.

Freeing our transitional self from ego-mind's clutches,
Allowing it to take a stand, to take a breath.

at risk

You've depicted ego-mind as being primarily a fear based operation.

Yes, maybe not in those words, but it feels its base is under siege and its survival at stake.

How so?

In a couple of major ways. First there's a subconscious knowing that it has severed its connection to what's truly real. And what does that leave it with but the possibility its very existence is based on something false, leaving it on some very shaky grounds.

So the feeling there's nothing to really stand on. And the second way?

At some point, the fact seeps in that the awakening-to-Self process is one that puts ego-mind at very real risk. Its sense of self-preservation is then truly threatened, and rightly so. For what could be more corrosive or destructive to it than the loss of a limited self, of what it thinks it is?