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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