How To Awaken

 

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I’ve continued to grow in terms of enlightenment. My practices are quite different than some, but I watched my father as he developed in this area, and I never saw him in the lotus position, so I feel certain enlightenment can be achieved without a mantra or a certain vibration.

I will say this simply, for I am not capable of expressing myself otherwise: It seems what most seekers are seeking is more of a poetic way of looking at the world and seeing the world. To be a poet, in its most original interpretation, would be to make, to create, to write or to sing. In this sense, to be a poet is to build something out of the available material. If you want to be a poet, the available material is everything you can think of, imagine or sense.

I find it very interesting when someone can take a subject and expose it with poetry. I believe this is one reason why reading poetry can be very good for spiritual growth. In many cases, good art will illuminate a subject. One of my dad’s more famous lines was, “I can taste the flower in this honey.”

I’m not sure my dad knew he was being a poet when he spoke those words, but he was taking the available material (honey) and making a flower, and looking at the origin of poetry, dad had created a line of poetry here.

As for enlightenment, it becomes more accessible when you consider the synchronicity present every day. Using your own poetic lens, you could observe two squirrels, chasing each other, and you could think of how we sometimes behave the same way. I’m using the word “synchronicity” as if I’d stolen it from Jung and forced it into this essay, but I could not think of a better word for something observable which links you to something else within your experience. Seeing that squirrels and humans have no discernable connection, does not prevent me from seeing a significant comparison to human behavior. When I see myself in a squirrel, that is sometimes synchronistic; but to create a narrative of that comparison is poetry.

Enlightenment serves to illuminate the deeper truths behind the present stage and drama.

We are actors, and our life is a drama. We perform for others as well as ourselves. For the sake of your life-story, it is good for you to believe you are who you’ve been cast to play. When you believe in you, others will too. Awareness is, as the word implies, to be aware. In this case, to be aware is: to be aware of all that lies beyond the stage and the play. It is not to ignore or forsake the story; it’s just knowing there is much more than the story. Every detail in your life-story has been included as a way of alluding to something far more significant. As much as possible, be a poet and consider the deeper truths about everything.

What actually happens when we do find ourselves transcending the story and the stage?

To steal another term, it is an “out of body experience.”

You may not find yourself occupying a spiritual cloud, hovering over the present scene, witnessing everyone and everything; including yourself. However, you can have a similar experience just by being aware of the stage and your part in the drama.

Ultimately, there is only One member of the audience, and that is the collective You. Naturally, to be an audience of One, where no play takes place, would be a zero-experience. If You were only aware, and never playing a part, the grandest of all universal venues would be silent, dark and dull.

From The Audience, You see many players, and You are thereby entertained, having forgotten that You play them All. From the stage, You think You are you, having forgotten that You are the others too. Awareness, from the point of your view, is to accept this Oneness by faith, knowing you’d be blowing it to end this drama, to despise your part, to heckle yourself or to despise the whole story.

This is your story and you have chosen the lead role, and as The Director, You’ve given the entire stage to your character, and You see everything through the vision You accorded that character. From that localized vantage point, You created partitions which prevent you from recognizing yourself in others, but they are all You. Float above the stage and You will see strings coming from Your multidimensional controller and You will remember that You are The Marionettist and You’ll see that the play You’ve been enjoying is not on a screen, but on a mirror, set at an angle for Your pleasure.

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Revelation 4:11 KJV

“As for now, we see a reflection as in a mirror; when the play is over, we will see Our Face. Now I know based on the partitions, but then I will know fully, even as I Am fully known.” ~ I Corinthians 13:12 MCV

“And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.” Acts 4:32

You are a multitude; enjoy the show.

This is Awakening.

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