Saturday, June 1, 2024
A spinning propeller appears like a solid disc. But it’s all flashing. Pleasure and pain are alternating, like the alternator in your car. This on/off phenomenon is what makes you know you’re alive. It’s a perpetual wake/sleep sequence.
Recently, I lost my sense of smell, but then it flashed back when I got a whiff of coffee – it was exhilarating. I had gotten sick, and I “forgot” how to smell. Understanding the necessity of this flashing principle is important. It keeps us from grasping, and it helps us shed what’s nonessential. It’s also useful in learning of your human/Divine nature. We love to repeatedly smell coffee. Why isn’t once enough? Somehow forgetting is integral.
To know you’re alive means to have implicitly forgotten that you are dead or dying. To know you are human means to implicitly have forgotten that you are Divine or eternal. God is flashing in you; but the Godhead cannot be turned “off.” It hovers in this laser-like duality.
God has a momentary lapse when she becomes “merely human,” or at least when you think that about yourself. When you’re ON, totally comported in the moment, doing your utmost, you are ONE with Divine Truth. In those glorious moments of flow and integration, you “forget” that you’re a person. But “woe is me” returns. It’s like a laser, uncovering the dense layers of pretense that have built up your illusory ego. At some point, there will be an irreducible essence, an invisibility of connectivity that underlies everything. This wonderful flashing laser is excavating the Divine in you. The part of you that “dies daily” is the nonessential. On a return trip from the flash of death or forgetfulness, notice the residual invisibility, lightness, unconditional love, and airiness that remain. That’s your Divine Truth. That’s more of who you are than the conceptual notion of being “merely human.”