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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facing the brunt

What does self-inquiry lead to,
But first seeing ego-mind's pluses and minuses?

This may require a very stable stance,
Facing the brunt of who we think we are.

Ultimately this is no self-improvement exercise,
Rather directly feeling one's own nothingness.

Though finally it's getting released from a separate self's self-absorption,
Getting absorbed in what's finally left--only Self Itself.

passing time

How am I passing the time,
Sitting on the sidelines while time passes me by?

Am I biding my time, waiting for the right moment,
Expecting the timeless to suddenly appear?

Or am I abiding in states of remembrance,
Extending an open invitation to the divine's active forces?

Like termites boring through mind's superstructure,
While leaving no traces of their enduring work.

a daring proposition

In venturing to wake up to spirit, to one's self beyond ego-mind,
Do we dare face our helplessness in this pursuit?

Can we stand before our inability and confusion,
Can we stand it, can we stand for it?

That state, though of helplessness, may be necessary,
May be a first step that's a truly an active act.

Where our usual ego-mind becomes quiescent,
A chance for something new to arrive, to take new form.

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.