Evolution of love

FALSE IDENTITY

Now the mind, if you go back to its knowledge, has all sorts of ideas about what your true

nature must be because you have read about it so much, have heard spiritual teachers talk

about it, and there is a whole mystical mythology created around Truth. Of course it's quite

a shock to realize that's not it. Whatever you think you are, that's not it. Even if your concept

is very spiritual, mystical, and other worldly, you are not that concept.

Letting go of accumulated knowledge helps the identity shift from the me-self to the no-self

Self. When this happens, it is called spiritual awakening. But this doesn't mean you can't use

your knowledge. Knowledge is still there when you need it. You can dip back into it to tell you

how to operate your computer, and for all sorts of other useful things.

Nothing's been lost except your false identity. You don't become an idiot. You don't forget how

to tie your shoelaces because you realize you weren't who you thought you were.

But the mind is afraid of this. The biggest barrier to realization is your thoughts about it

because thoughts will create images of the awakened state, and those images just belong to

accumulated knowledge. No matter what image you have of your true Self, that image cannot be the Truth.


When you see this, it becomes easy to experientially recognize what's right here. Just what's

right here—eternal consciousness, pure spirit.