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Posted by G.A. Codakiz at 09:21 PM | Permalink
So to continue, let's hear more about the aspect of being closed.
Closed, in this sense, would mean not reacting or supporting the false self in oneself and others. Not bolting when ego-mind's tripwires are crossed.
In that sense closed means being free from knee-jerk reactions.
And that's what would allow real openness, a chance to experience a sense of deeper unity with others.
And with ourselves as well. But do you think this is even possible? Seems a real balancing act.
Balance, yes, but not just exhibiting ego-mind's equipoise, rather a harmony made possible when not dominated by conditioned mind's constraints. It might be possible if practiced, tried on for size. It could be a great way to see oneself and others more clearly, more compassionately while at the same time downsizing false self's control.
We've talked about being both open and closed at the same time.
One way to look at it is that it's both not buying in to what's being experienced and at the same time not rejecting it.
What keeps that attitude from becoming a false state of detachment, a state of disconnection?
The lifesaver here is that this a way of dealing with, of relating to, experience as filtered through our conditioned mind. The result should be a more direct experience of life itself.
And what's another way to look at this?
Another way to put it is being open to what we sense is most conducive to what's real, authentic, what resonates with our connection to the truth of Reality, to what nourishes our inner connection to that, even if these actualities are beyond our thinking mind.
And then closed to what...
To the false self in ourselves and others, even while open to our essential oneness.
Watch out when the false self seeks awakening,
It's guaranteed dual-mind is in control.
That mind is the custodian of duality's realm,
Glued to me and you, us and them, gaining and losing.
What's needed for the movement of god-unconscious to god-conscious,
But a unified mind emptied of separations?
What if we're vessels of that current,
Where a single-mind is prepared to be emptied of itself?
You haven't talked much about meditation.
It's a specialty all its own, but the basic dynamics that apply to its many forms are similar to those in our daily life encounters.
Both deal with distractions from the constant resistance/pressure exerted by the ego-mind, let's call it the false self. These are themselves opportunities to actually see this false self more directly, more clearly.
So don't fight the resistance, the distractions it provides.
Trying to dismiss them, ignore them, attack them is losing that opportunity and just further entrenches us in our reactions.
You're suggesting a way to see the false self and its power over us.
Yes, but another opportunity can also be lost, the opportunity to see what may be, what beingness may be beyond this false self's veils and distortions. We can function through a new center of being, what we've talked about before and called a transitional self.
Then availing of these opportunities would involve two steps, quieting the false self and opening to something new.
Maybe two, maybe one. But one step at a time.