Awakening sense

what's eating you?

Who we think we are is the clothing  mind parades in concealing its unlimited nature. Its fabric fleshes out what we appear to be. Like a comfort food this gives us a sense of ease. It feeds more 'dream-stuff' to prop up who we seem to be.

Yet all these fabrications are insubstantial as cotton candy.

Awakening's workings have an appetite for all this fluff as well. But there's a difference: whatever is consumed doesn't get replaced, no seconds.

Every morsel eventually gets devoured leaving us with a clean plate. The only seasoning of choice is our willingness and readiness to awaken.

The highlight of this particular menu: an unforgettable feast of homecoming.

jihad

We embody the urge to clear out inner obstacles, the awakening urge dissolving barriers. But mishandling makes this energy volatile. If distorted by mind's hall of mirrors there's confusion or craziness.

Then instead of destroying the false in us we wind up blocking access to the real. The inner jihad  goes haywire looking for random targets. Remedy: the fire of longing forging spirit's sword.

This cuts through our psychic bundle of entanglements and symbolizes inner sight, insight. Without heart/mind harmony this bundle snowballs and psychic pressure builds up.

There are many different release valves at hand. But it's life-giving waters of awakening's tide that make real changes.

So when the floodgates start opening don't hesitate embracing flood-time's bounty. Don't hesitate to let barriers and obstacles drift away.

abandoned

If indeed we live many lifetimes then body after body gets abandoned. But do we truly reside within each one? Or do the ghosts of our compulsions convert each body into a haunted house? On the way to a knowing heart (heart/mind) sometime we abandon these ghosts, sometime they abandon us. 

But something far bigger has been thrown out the window. Unknowingly, unwittingly, connection to Self has been discarded. The more ego-mind claims for itself the more it loses touch with that link.

When this loss is deeply felt a truly open heart senses the call of awakening's voice. A knowing arises that something priceless and more totally alive is ready to be reclaimed.

Whatever stands in the way of this treasure is gladly released. For when the slightest perfume of such new promise intoxicates what's left to be abandoned?

the ultimate allergy

Ego-mind self is the ultimate allergen: the most perfected example of other-than-Self. It provokes a classic allergic response: over-reaction to an inflamed mind and frozen heart.

This thorn of a self winds up being an irritant to its own well being. Let alone maintaining long term health it's programmed to eventually self-destruct.

When it over-inflates it starts tripping over itself. Too much mental activity breeds misinformation creating viral overload. 

Then ego-mind starts breaking down. What was previously a natural defense system turns into a Frankenstein feeding upon itself. Steps can be taken to calm it down but eventually the whole system is best scrapped.

For once the hypnotic trance of a separate self is disrupted the game is spoiled. This is the opportune time for awakening self (transitional ego) to arrive on the scene.

Then awakening's waves sweep through mind's minefields and an entirely new game begins.