One foot in this world. One foot in the transcendent. This is the dance.
Eckhart Tolle
Are you dancing? Or are you determined to have both feet stuck together on one spot? I spent most of my life, like many of you too, with both feet in the physical world...little me's world. And though I was being called to the transcendent for as long as I can remember, I just dug my heels in and pulled my ankles even closer together. All the while I sung out as loud as I could, "Leave me alone!"
Personal mind will not let consciousness go to the intellectual [creative mind]...it distracts you from your bigger mind. Singer
I was stuck in the wall shadow world. It was not comfortable. Yet, I didn't want to leave to explore the other world. I didn't want to walk out there onto the dance floor. I was needing to make it feel comfortable in here so I did whatever I could ...ignoring the music and the calls to step out, stuffing and storing, defending and attacking, attaching to other wall flowers and things, pulling some things in...pushing so much out.... doing whatever I could to make "me" feel better. It was all about "me".
...because I am thinking about me, I am caught in this tiny little space of me...and it isn't too comfortable...so I need to do things to make myself feel better...I am compensating for the fact that I am not doing okay. Singer
Until lately, that is.
Suffering...joyous, wonderful suffering... has pushed me out of the wall shadows and into the light. It led me to examine this "I...me...mine" program so many of us are stuck in, that keeps our feet together in the physical world. It was like someone turned on a light and I could see so much more than what I could see in the shadows. It was like someone gave me a mirror and I looked in and I saw a big old mask staring back at me, an ego mask. It was like someone cranked up the music...I could hear the beat calling me. I began to dance.
Albeit, I was a very awkward dancer at first...still awkward, in fact. I started by just pulling my ankles a part, and lifting one foot from the earth...I slowly, and very tentatively dipped my toes into a world I didn't understand...the same world that was calling me in my dreams ever since I was little. I did not take off the mask, at first. I needed it on. It kept all the nasty in. I dipped my toes in the other world and I quickly pulled my toes out...again and again and again.
There were glimpses of something as I danced...just little snippets of a truth began to emerge in me, through me, despite "me"...
Humans have to taste the truth of that for themselves
The Universe also wants deep inner peace...you also want to be rather than do...to return to the Source. And this is what presence is.
Presence is the conscious relaization[connection] of the Source of all Life. Tolle
I began to place my whole foot down into this other world, and then I would pull it out and get all lost in "me" again. I gave...then I went back to taking. I thought of all other beings and then I pulled back to think of "me"... I was absorbed in "being" but would then pull back to get all lost in "doing" again. I loved openly and then I pulled back, as fear led me to close up again and again.
What a strange dance I was performing lol...a little bit like Wednesday's dance in the Adam's Family movie lol
At one point I began to jump with both feet from the physical world to the transcendent...that wasn't healthy either.
Tolle, in the below linked video relayed the story of Ramana Mahrashi who jumped head first into the transcendent world. Once he became enlightened, he became completely immersed into Source to the point he didn't talk or eat. Gradually he dipped his toes into this world again but not completely. He still spent more time in Source...but eventually there was a bit more balance so that he could serve this world and this lifetime. Eventually the Source began to create through him and an ashram was built around him...a place where other seekers could go to at least touch Source through him.
I am no Maharishi :) but I am still dancing ...moving from one world to another...It is getting to be more of a waltz or an awkward ballet movement that I perform, where one foot sweeps the floor in one world and the other foot sweeps the floor in the other. I am also removing the mask of ego...knowing how it stops me from experiencing the true joy of the dance. I am attempting to find balance.
...balance between dwelling in Source awareness...and participating in the act of co creation with the Source. Tolle
So, though there is so much truth in Singer's comment, The mind is a serious problem and the answer is not to give it what it wants. ...we still need to utilize the mind so that we keep one foot in this world while we dip our other foot in the transcendent world.
Hmm!
All is well!
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( March 24, 2025) Breaking Free from Negative Thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7_v7xQ3uc&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1
Eckhart Tolle( March, 2025) Eckhart Tolle Discusses Two Ways to Manifest Your Desires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJN-4O9VKCA
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