The error that is the ego is attaching life to manifestation and identifying with that. It is attaching life to a body, a mind, and a personality, and then feeling that you are that. When you make the mistake of pinning life down to a specific form and identifying with that form, you also see form as alive, as if the form is primary and life is both secondary and temporary. That’s why you believe in death.
In reality, life is primary and eternal. Every aspect of manifestation is temporary, shifting and changing. And you are life, not the temporary form that you experience now.
To let go of ego is to let go of identifying with a specific manifestation as you and to let go of seeing others as specific manifestations. It is to fully accept that manifestation comes and goes, and life is beyond all manifestations. Life is the source of all manifestations; it is the essence of all manifestations, and life is what you are, just as it is what everything is.
The purpose of today’s reading is to help you accept this truth. Admittedly, it is not the truth the ego wants to hear. The ego (identification with a specific form) wants to believe it is eternal, but that simply isn’t the truth, nor will it ever be the truth.
Read today’s reading slowly and contemplatively. I recommend taking notes again today. Taking notes will help you absorb today’s teaching. You can also review and further contemplate your notes, which will further aid in absorbing this important teaching.
Thoughts of Awakening # 245
Newly born realization
is like a newly received chick.
If you want it to thrive and grow,
you must protect it with light.
You must nurture it with love.
With light and love
new realization grows
strong and solid.
In an absence of attention
it dies,
only to be born again
some other day.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 239-245
- Read NTI Hebrews 7-13
- The reading from Rupert Spira was from The Transparency of Things, p 227-233, Love in Search of Itself.
- Exercise – watch yourself to make sure you’re not trying to get something from your spiritual practice. Watch to make sure you are not coming from the lack vibration. If you notice that you are, simply let go of that. You are already are everything. There’s nothing to get here.
