Awakening sense

beyond memory's gates

Remembrance is more an act of recognition than memory. It's recognizing real identity, focus on Self as Real I.

Its approach path is through the clear space of a waking heart. When attempted within ego-mind's realms it proves unapproachable.

It's the actual attraction to Self sprouting from Self's wish to awaken through you or me. The price tag? Letting go the grip of our limits and bindings.

Then remembrance is a gift though not given gratis.

It may be our due but not duly given.

It may be the key to the treasure but not evident.

It may be available to all but only acknowledged by a yearning  heart.

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)

re-ignition

Remembrance (see what it is not) can re-ignite our connection to the Oneness State.

More of what it's not: it's not distracting, it's our everyday state that is distracted. It's not interfering, it's our usual awareness that interferes. It's not a separate thought, it's of the One Thought (or Thoughtless) State where awareness does not require jumping from one thought to another.

But the main thing about remembrance is this: It's our attraction to the Beloved One within and unites our lives with the gravitational pull of this attraction.

what it is not

Remembrance is the spiritual practice of re-collecting our living connection to our source: the Oneness State, the Beloved One, God As All. This becomes a link or thoroughfare between our mind and heart.

It can be a divine name or image, it can be a sense of direct presence, it can take many forms, it can take no forms.

It can be spontaneous, it can be structured, it's endless in nature. Each spiritual tradition practices some form of remembrance using different terms and descriptions.

What it is not: remembrance is not a memory of the past because thought alone cannot deal with the immediacy of the moment.

Actually it's not a thought at all because then it would interfere and conflict with other thoughts. As an awareness without thought it doesn't displace or replace any part of our experiences.

That's real non-interference, real harmony. Otherwise our attention would be split, fragmented, and would wind up stumbling over itself.

Hopefully this gives a small taste of the texture of remembrance and how it might encompass and unify all our passing moments.