Awakening sense

blind to bondage

Even when true remembrance is in play,
Ego-mind claims that it's an escape, a delusion.

But who is escaping from what,
So long there's fuller acceptance of all that is?

Usual mind says this practice brings no real change,
Though, preprogrammed, what's it really qualified to see?

For it's blind to its bondage while claiming to be free,
As awakening's will freely works out a predetermined outcome.

breaking through resistance

Imagine charting one's attempts at spirituality,
Looking like a stock market's ups and downs.

Breaking through the resistance of our doubts and fears,
What once resisted us becomes a new support.

Though profiting from feelings of newfound freedom,
Perhaps we best relinquish the illusion of real control.

Perhaps the calculation of true gains is in ego-mind's losses,
Where all our efforts are overshadowed by awakening's grace.

over the edge

What qualities do you think most useful to what you call the transitional ego?

There's trust, forbearance, freedom from worry, detachment, compassion....an endless list. But let's start with trust and forbearance for now.

Why those two in particular?

They just seem the most pertinent to me at the moment. The mix of qualities keeps changing, otherwise one could get stuck in a particular groove.

Sounds like a spiritual version of cross-training.

Exactly.

So what are you trusting in?

The trust is that I am not what I think I am, that the reality of being is beyond ego-mind's grasp, and that higher influences can both instill and quicken the certainty of our true state in us all.

And what of forbearance?

It's like putting up with, bearing the unending deluge of ego-mind's machine that produces a constant stream of thoughts and feelings. Imagine this stream is like a waterfall and we're sitting under it. Or, better yet, imagine standing in a river's swift current without being pulled downstream.

Or without going over the waterfall!

some responses

Some say only love for God counts,
Others ask what is love, who is it that loves and from where does such love come.

Some say what matters is That, the Only.
Others say don't discount the That, the Real I, manifest in form.

Some say ignore the distractions of the many in the One,
Others counter, have compassion for the Unconscious Self trapped in ignorance.

Some say focus only on the One Self,
Others say yes, but without forgetting that it is also immanent in all.

Such questions view a diamond's facets in sequences, never simultaneously,
As such an action is beyond usual mind's meager grasp.