Awakening sense

dwindling dreams (pt.2)

Frustrated dreams are often followed by disappointment. In reaction one may dismiss dreams and see only their own limits' dead ends, trapped within their bars. Limitations dominate, squeezing the spaciousness out of our dreams.

Such awareness remains prey to ego's sway: that illusion is the only reality. Only when dis-illusion, the shedding of illusions, is complete enough does joy of freedom follow.

Short of that one is isolated in self-imposed limits.  A kind of psychic malnutrition, a sense of time running out sets in. Speed bumps develop into barriers that wall in aspirations.

Such a mind starts expecting disappointment. The weight of collapsed hopes firms one's belief in this frozen landscape, even calling it 'acceptance.' Talk of awakening is viewed as a dream for the naive.

But read on as another possibility far from this bleakness is explored in part three. What seems to be a trap's lock may provide the key to its release. Who knows what wondrous tools a clear mind and steady heart may yet unearth? And where but within awakening's wake might such tools be stored?      (see pt.1 and pt.3)

free to dream (pt.1)

Dreams and aspirations often relish overlooking obstacles: anything can happen, everything will work out! Ego-mind's fervor ignores all limitations. Freedom is so overriding that we become dominated by it.

Not surprising considering where the starting point is planted: firmly within this dream of you and me. We dream that we're awake, infatuated with the dream's freedom.

Then limits are dismissed without wisdom's backing. Awareness is lacking, like painting a floor while painting yourself into a corner. Something's being disregarded: the shadow of one's inner contradictions and conflicts. Feeling may be there but not a ready heart or needed skills and tools.

As this shadow spreads it becomes more dense. Even dreams of awakening feel its dead weight. The source of dreams, this urge to be free, pours forth from within. Yet passing though the filters of an encumbered mind it's easily diverted.

But take heart, this is just part of a story that reveals a freedom beyond dreams. All dreams are limited save one, the dream of awakening to Unlimited Self. It's the first and last dream as it comes from the urge-to-awaken itself. This leads to waking up from all dreams; limitations unwind making the apparent become transparent.         (see pt.2 and pt.3)

living silence

We're surrounded by a living silence like a second skin where the world's noise can't intrude. Each pore, each point is a portal to a new vastness. From there springs the voice of awakening, of real intuition. It's constantly informing us far beyond the whisperings of spirit guides or muses.

This silence is close as nightly voyages that plunge us into deep oceanic sleep. The unfathomable is there that ever renews us. Like sleeping submariners we travel there and find regeneration.

Daily we brush by this ever-present silence unnoticed in the haste of our waking sleep. We may rush by yet still it pervades every cell, thought, and heartbeat.

Gradually we become more conscious of awakening's treasure wreathed by this sheath of silence. Profound possibilities are held there; our hopes and dreams are pale reflections of inspirations and realizations it bears.

It's the medium through which only the real can pass and within which the illusory dissolves. Through it pass exchanges of love's glances, a give-and-take that feeds the flames of an awakening heart.

alien territory

Whatever spiritual awakening unearths is often totally unfamiliar to ego-mind. Without recognizable marks whatever is revealed seems altogether alien. This can temporarily shake up small mind into letting its guard down.

But forces are swiftly marshaled to resist or neutralize all this disruption. Our usual mind prefers keeping any new threat at bay and likes appearing unruffled. It can even become so jaded as to pretend spiritual eloquence!

Such mental choke-holds guarantee there will be no real change, insure nothing will be taken to heart. We're left huddling in minds' hallways like a snail not daring to venture out of its shell.

Of course there are entirely different alternatives: the unspoken voice of awakening can be affirmed; unformed intuitions of spirit can be confirmed.

Heart's adventure can be encouraged, in-lightening open mind, giving new in-sight to renewed heart/mind.