Awakening sense

all fall down (pt.2)

A living breathing network of programmed bits and pieces (impressions) surrounds us. These dust-like particles we give life to float suspended in mind's currents. The attention we pay them is a net that both attracts and contains. It's like a tonic that makes them buzz and swarm around us.

What happens when temporarily ignored? They shrivel up deprived of nourishment. Remember those lines from a children's game 'we all fall down?'

They 'all fall down' and play dead, dropping to the ground by their own dead weight, lifeless for the moment.  Like children they jump up to play again whenever we start missing them.

What can really clear the air? The stunning influence of awakening: its pull can be so absorbing that we snap out of usual preoccupations. A riveting awareness takes over. The old is overwhelmed and the flame of a new intensity opens the heart, lightens the mind.       (also pt.1)

falling pebbles (pt.1)

Inner bindings swirl about us like dust particles (impressions). Suspended in mind's currents they're distracting as swarms of insects. With mind's surface calm and depths silent these particles fall to the ground like pebbles.

They are bathed there in currents of two rivers: forgetfulness of self and remembrance of Self.

That remembrance is heart's knowing, recognition. It both calms mind and supplies fire that incinerates separateness.

Heart's knowing fuels the express train of remembrance. That's so vital as our collective mind nears getting unhinged. Then another door can open and new movements begin; the old can be left behind.

So remember to forget your baggage as the train pulls out of the station.   (also pt.2)

pindrop silence

With pin drop silence within us heart/mind can sense a pinpoint of light. This glimpse can be no less vivid no matter how passing or peripheral. That's like knowing the light's on next-door when hearing the light switch click.

A glimmer of this luminous greatness is so profound it surpasses any convictions or perceptions.

It's the budding of inner knowing, a sprouting of living flame. Its living silence silences dying echoes of what we are not.

Such is awakening's handiwork in uncovering what's beyond our dreams and stories. It leads to the treasure's revealing: unveiling intimacy of the Beloved One, becoming overtaken and overcome by One Self.

mix and match

Four starting points:

1) Nothing will ever be all-right, nothing ever works out.

2) Everything is going to be/is all-right.

A) Ego-mind standpoint.

B) Awakening self, transitional ego viewpoint.

Four combinations:

1A) Lamenting, regretting, expecting the worse, self-victimized. Nothing done through ego-mind is lasting or satisfying; all temporary stop-gap measures.

1B) Seeing ego-mind's world as perpetual troubles: solutions that only breed more problems. Here one starts to know the real can't be found through filters of the false. What a relief to be less wrapped up in dream-world's maze.

2A) Hopeful, expecting the best, but lacking insight to recognize it when it arrives.

2B) Whatever presents itself at this moment is seized on as the ideal tool to release and key to unlock bindings.