the story of the true self
To engage fully in this exercise, you may ask a friend to read it to you. Or you may make a recording that you can listen to. You may also simply read the text and visualize as you do so. Do not skip this task. Give it full attention....BECOME the words. Do it as many times as you need to fully grasp the wordless concept of how we arrived in this state of human nature.
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Close your eyes for a moment, and imagine yourself to be formless; free. In your formlessness, there is no Space or Time; you are Everywhere & No-where. You are Awareness-Without-Motion. You simply ARE.
Awareness begins to Move. Out of the Everywhere & No-Where, a house Manifests; it contains many rooms, and all of them are furnished. You are the house, and each of the rooms is you. Every piece of furniture is you. Everywhere and No-Where is still you, but now part of you is pretending to be the house, and part of you is imagining you are the furniture.. The house and the furniture can only exist because you have Thought them into existence. They stay Manifest because you maintain the Thoughts that give them Form. Thought moves in repetitive cycles, holding the Manifest in Space and Time.
You are Everywhere and No-where; you are True Self. And part of you is the house and the furniture; you are Personality. True Self watches its own absorption in the Personality. Personality maintains itself through Thought. Personality is busy with Thought. Personality forgets it is True Self. Personality feels the Presence of True Self and thinks True Self is Separate. True Self allows Personality to enjoy its Existence in Form. When Personality no longer enjoys Form, True Self calls it back into the Everywhere and No-Where.
Personality has Thought up more and more furniture, and the more it makes Manifest, the more it forgets its True Self. Personality begins to feel lonely because it believes the Thought that says it is separate from True Self. Some discarded pieces of furniture have become rotten and ugly because Personality has unhappy Thoughts. Personality covers up the ugliness with more and more furniture. The ugliness and the rottenness cause Personality to detest Existence. True Self calls Personality Home, but Personality is afraid to come Home even though it is no longer happy in Form. It has forgotten it is True Self.
Personality has now Thought up the ’Unknown’. It believes the True Self to be Unknown. Personality maintains itself; it makes a stand against True Self. It is unhappy and detests Existence, yet it dreads the Unknown. Personality tells itself it likes Existence. Personality lies and lies and detests Existence even more. Personality makes more furniture for its house to convince itself it is happy. Soon, the house is full to the brim. Personality is heavy and cluttered and has forgotten where the rotten furniture is hidden. True Self needs itself to be Whole again. It needs Personality to remember itself and dissolve the house and the furniture. To dissolve the furniture and the house, Personality must cease to believe its Thoughts are real. True Self has a plan to bring Personality Home.
True Self makes Manifest a Mirror and makes Manifest Pain. In Pain, True Self hides a Mirror of Itself. True Self is now the Mirror. True Self is now Pain. It Enters the house and places Mirrors everywhere, in every room, in between all the furniture. True Self puts Pain into the rottenness and the ugliness and both are magnified by the Mirror. Now Personality can see the hidden parts of itself, and when it does, it feels Pain. In the Pain, Personality sees its True Reflection. It sees the True Self and remembers that the Personality is only Thought. Personality turns from Thought and dissolves it entirely. It brings its Awareness back into the True Self.
Awareness begins to Move. Out of the Everywhere & No-Where, a house Manifests; it contains many rooms, and all of them are furnished. You are the house, and each of the rooms is you. Every piece of furniture is you. Everywhere and No-Where is still you, but now part of you is pretending to be the house, and part of you is imagining you are the furniture.. The house and the furniture can only exist because you have Thought them into existence. They stay Manifest because you maintain the Thoughts that give them Form. Thought moves in repetitive cycles, holding the Manifest in Space and Time.
You are Everywhere and No-where; you are True Self. And part of you is the house and the furniture; you are Personality. True Self watches its own absorption in the Personality. Personality maintains itself through Thought. Personality is busy with Thought. Personality forgets it is True Self. Personality feels the Presence of True Self and thinks True Self is Separate. True Self allows Personality to enjoy its Existence in Form. When Personality no longer enjoys Form, True Self calls it back into the Everywhere and No-Where.
Personality has Thought up more and more furniture, and the more it makes Manifest, the more it forgets its True Self. Personality begins to feel lonely because it believes the Thought that says it is separate from True Self. Some discarded pieces of furniture have become rotten and ugly because Personality has unhappy Thoughts. Personality covers up the ugliness with more and more furniture. The ugliness and the rottenness cause Personality to detest Existence. True Self calls Personality Home, but Personality is afraid to come Home even though it is no longer happy in Form. It has forgotten it is True Self.
Personality has now Thought up the ’Unknown’. It believes the True Self to be Unknown. Personality maintains itself; it makes a stand against True Self. It is unhappy and detests Existence, yet it dreads the Unknown. Personality tells itself it likes Existence. Personality lies and lies and detests Existence even more. Personality makes more furniture for its house to convince itself it is happy. Soon, the house is full to the brim. Personality is heavy and cluttered and has forgotten where the rotten furniture is hidden. True Self needs itself to be Whole again. It needs Personality to remember itself and dissolve the house and the furniture. To dissolve the furniture and the house, Personality must cease to believe its Thoughts are real. True Self has a plan to bring Personality Home.
True Self makes Manifest a Mirror and makes Manifest Pain. In Pain, True Self hides a Mirror of Itself. True Self is now the Mirror. True Self is now Pain. It Enters the house and places Mirrors everywhere, in every room, in between all the furniture. True Self puts Pain into the rottenness and the ugliness and both are magnified by the Mirror. Now Personality can see the hidden parts of itself, and when it does, it feels Pain. In the Pain, Personality sees its True Reflection. It sees the True Self and remembers that the Personality is only Thought. Personality turns from Thought and dissolves it entirely. It brings its Awareness back into the True Self.