Reality is not what you think.

[Elias]

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This is the first of several new posts I wrote offline in the last few days.
It is also posted on Notes and Comments.

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Reality is not what you think.

Reality is not what you think. Nor does it hold together according to the map of hidden emotions and subtle architecture of the mind.

Rather, reality is an essential "I" pervading the Universe and all its wonders. Reality is an irreducible Self-awareness, the power over everything, because everything other than the Self is objective, reducible, temporary, and mental.

Do you know yourself or do you find yourself in identification with the objects and temporary states of your awareness? The fact is, you do know yourSelf. The fact is, even as you awaken to yourSelf as one and all-pervasive and the very essence of Conscious Reality, you also grow more and more aware of how you are simultaneously awake and surrendered to unconscious unreality: your "identity" with objects, states, and projections upon persons, temporary states, and objects.

That's not a "bad" thing. It is just your way of living the world. For the larger part of your awareness, you are "the myth in the mirror", enamored and entranced by reflections on the water. We all sometimes wish that were not the case, but there it is.

Fortunately for us, our Reality, our all-pervasive Being, is always standing behind us to help us. "I" (yet unrealized, or perhaps tasted on occasion), is cupping "i" in its hands, breathing the gentle breath of Truth upon it.

"I" loves "i". (message carved on a tree)

Yes, knowing the impermanence of "i", "I"'s love is rather humorous and forgiving. At the same time "I" recognizes the strange and tragic bondage in which "i" finds itself -- yearning to die, yearning for freedom, yearning to re-unite with (and awaken as) the "I" of the whole Universe and Beyond.

This state of affairs was meant to happen. This transition and awakening of reflective consciousness was meant to be, so that in the end it could cease to be.

Vishnu fell asleep. He dreamed a Universe. And then He awaoke, and the Universe vanished.

~E