The only reason we are not enlightened is because we are distracted ...when you are not being distracted, you just are!
Michael Singer
Have you ever had an experience where you are in the privacy of a bathroom about to do your thing, when the door suddenly opens and you find yourself screaming, "I'm in here!" You had to make it known to whatever or whoever was out there that you were inside.
You were not really thinking about where you were in terms of inside or outside, not really focusing on who you were prior to that door opening. . You were probably thinking about where you have to go next or where you just came from. You were probably thinking about all the drama that was going on out there. ...your drama. You were lost in the busy mind and the busy world...believing you were both. That is until something came along to remind you and the world you were inside.
Well that was the silly thing I thought of as I was listening to Michael Singer today in Spirituality-The Exploration of Consciousness.
So often we forget that we are the Self inside our own bodies and minds...We go about or business "doing" this or that, always distracted by the going ons out there and around us that we start to identify with those things as a part of who we are. That secluded space of the bathroom stall is our go to...representing the natural state of the mind where the busy world is shut away and we can just relax into what is.
While we are in there, however, the busy world or the busy mind can come pounding at the door, constantly knocking and distracting. We begin to lose the sense of peaceful reprieve this space is meant to offer and become absorbed in those distractions the world or the mind are dumping on us. Even though we have not left that space we are so caught up in what is happening outside it, we forget where we are and who we are.
Our lives may be so full of distracting doing , our head so full of distracting thoughts...what Patanjali referred to as "mental modifications" that we forget we are inside these bodies and minds. We come to believe we are the busyness of the world and our thinking. Until the door opens that is...to remind us we are not what is going on in our minds nor are we our minds...we are simply inside them , watching everything go down.
I am in here!
Who is the I? Not the roles you play out there, not what you own, not what you do, not what you think. Use this moment of opening to ponder who you are.
Am? Am is the oppiste of 'Do'. In "am" there is no doing...just being. In your natural state ...you just are.
In? Though duality will fade away the more evolved we become, for now it is beneficial to think in terms of "in" and "out". The inner world is where we want to focus our attention, not out there. You are in this peacfeul space...find yourself in there.
Here? Right now, right here...in this moment, in this space is where you are. You are not what is going on around you, in the past or future...you are awareness of all that is going on around you right here.
So welcome the intrusions when you are lost in thought and doing, the reminder of where and who you are. Remind yourself often, "I am in here". (Or you can just reach up and lock the door :))
All is well
Michael Singer/Sounds True ( July, 2021) Spirituality- The Exploration of Consciousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4_q7qdZ0E
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