Awakening sense

where's the juice?

I've heard you say that every moment contains a treasure. Can you elaborate?

Just to say each moment contains an opportunity to be more free, to invite a transformative influence.

How would that come about?

By placing our attention in front of our experience, not behind it.

Don't quite follow that...

Another way to put it would be not reinforcing our history, ego-mind's reactions.

What would provide the motivation, the juice needed for such a thing?

Certainly nothing we can manufacture on our own. But what if we could see each experience as a labor of love?

A labor for what?

For realizing who and what we truly are. A labor that invites the active work of the Beloved. A work derived from love of Self for self and that supplies the reflected love of self for Self.

left behind

Let's follow up on our last exchange about a 'possible self.'

Right, that other name for a transitional or awakening-self.

You said it serves as a sort of connection between our false self and the Real Self.

Yes, a working connection in order to expose the false self to Real Self. When actually facing our real nothingness, we can slip into this possible self, can then glimpse or sense our true ground of being.

By working connection I guess you mean spiritual effort.

The effort to release distractions and invite the Beloved's presence. Another way to put it: when entering the darkness of our actual nothingness, false self is left behind.

staying flexible

You've talked about a transitional self...

Yes, an intermediary of sorts between our false/conditioned self and Real Self.

Real Self with a capital R..

The One Real Self, not a series of them. Maybe this transitional self could be called that operating center in us which best serves the interests of our real self, lower case. Some might call this real self the soul, the drop which ultimately becomes the Ocean.

So we're talking about that which is most aligned with Real Self, upper case.

I've also called transitional self our awakening-self and transitional ego. It could just as well be called our possible self.

Why so many terms?

To avoid fixating, getting stuck. Staying flexible but not so fluid there's nothing to work with. We still need stepping stones.

repackaging

When the personality alone tries to apprehend spirituality,
That's the perfect setup for institutions, conferences and organizations.

Insights get repackaged for ego-mind's own designs,
And, redirected, wind up at a dead end.

What's needed is a deeper contact beyond personality's grasp,
To touch what's truly intimate, the Beloved's presence.

How can who we think we are even fathom this matter,
Unless we're first willing to truly step aside?