Awakening sense

who's in charge?

The arena of any spiritual approach or method can become clamorous at times. How to find our true voice there? How to carry on while keeping ego-mind at bay? Fortunately our core can respond to the touch of awakening's pull.

A new center, a new 'self' that can help decrease our bindings is activated.This 'transitional ego' (transit self) becomes the new overseer, the master of ceremonies. It helps keep us afloat amidst an ocean of obstructions.

Through its skills our ship is kept watertight as possible. Otherwise, waterlogged, we sink once more into a dream-stupor. Through inner remembrance and compassion the decks are cleared, the sails lifted for the winds of awakening.

It's evident these are not spiritual 'how-to' posts. Rather a sharing of inspirations, each one as watertight as possible to stay afloat upon an ocean of discovery.

spiritual weightlifting

At best efforts to awaken prepare us for awakening's effortless occurrence. At worse spiritual gymnastics or weightlifting can dig a deeper hole. Depends: is the starting  point based on sincerity and clarity or rooted in old ego-mind delusions?

How to be predisposed to awakening's gift? It's whatever decreases our bindings, our backlog of knots and tangles. Should these efforts increase and start feeling more effortless all the better.

We often expect greater effort leads to greater results. Yet after awakening's taste it may be felt no preparedness could lead up to it. Awakening's 'event' is contact with, connection with Unlimited Mind. Then previous works may seem minuscule, even misguided.

In any case all our history gets completely swallowed up by awakening's glory.           (see a spiritual classic )

the deep freeze

Ego-mind's maze surrounds us like a carnival's hall of mirrors. Its distortions try to guarantee we won't find our way out anytime soon. Removing the warps and kinks can start remedying that.

Better yet is shattering the mirrors. Their surfaces are embedded with inner programming that spurs us this way and that. Those crystalline coatings start freezing up when mind's thermostat turns down. Then cracks start forming along thoughts' fault lines.

Soon we start hearing the popping and crackling of frozen glass. Swarms of pent up memories rush forth released from their confinement; mind's mirrors get dismantled.

Our border gates are unfastened and old boundaries are erased. What's left is the spaciousness of awakening.  

a collective treasure (pt.2)

When does awakening begin?

The underlying urge or push to awaken is always there. It's the underpinning, the driving force of whatever we're doing.

Even when we're not conscious of it?

We may not be conscious of this 'pushing' but its work gets done. Through our dramas and darkness a preparation goes on. Our baggage and bindings are gradually shed; the dust clouds that dazzle us thin out (see 'impressions' ).

So when does the conscious part start?

Glimpses and glimmers of what's always there begin as the haze of dust particles settles. Then the pull begins, the attraction to the Real, and awakening blossoms forth.

Sounds like a kind of guarantee.

We share a common inheritance that's the rarest of treasures. It's a matter of time, though no small matter to us.     (see pt.1)