The True Self
The true self sets intention. Wise mindfulness for intention that fosters well-being is called long-term intention. And that's your inner dedication, your commitment, your deepest values. It's traditional-- when the Dalai Lama wakes up in the morning, he recites the vows from Shantideva: "May I be a guide for those who are lost, a bridge or a raft for those to cross the stream. May I be medicine for the sick and food for the hungry. May I be a resting place for the weary. And may I be a lamp for those lost in the darkness." a beautiful kind of inner intention.
A limited identity is simply that you identify with something limiting. It may be something you were placed into without knowing, like only my country, only my race, only my religion. Limited identity is the root of all conflict here for us on this Earth plane. The intellect directly connects with the third dimension of your mind. This dimension is often referred to as Ahankara, and can be often translated as ego, but this definition is extremely limiting. Ahankara gives you a sense of identity. Once your ahankara takes on an identity, your intellect functions only in that context. It is important to realize beyond the intellect because the intellect is sincerely imprisoned to your identity. The intellect cannot function without a certain bank of memory or dataset. Using a limited identity as the input for your intellect will constrict your being and diminish your faculties.
Knowing who you are is one thing. Realizing however, you do not know what ‘everything’ is, is something different. We may not know exactly how the tree was created. They become comfortable in not knowing. Trying to know, know, know, will leave you on the hamster wheel of seeking to satisfy an unquenchable thirst. The amount I do not know is endless, and once you surrender to this, the endless information may become available to you. There is no need to be thirsty when you are blissful wading in the waters of Creation.
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” – Albert Einstein
Words complicate things and make us seem like we know. Words distort reality to a very large degree. Tone and presence radiate much clearer. We need the words to communicate on platforms such as this, and to satisfy things like legal requirements. The reunification of self with Source is beyond language. The tree would not be called a tree if it was only you and the tree. You would just experience it. You are just being. Let us not complicate things. Let us be in bliss by simply being.
“Every leaf on every tree is oscillating. Every sunbeam, every pile of dirt, every pond or pool, every ocean or lake is alive in the vibration, and, as you witness God as the leaf, as the dirt, as the lake, as you align to it at that level, you can move into communion with God as expressed in physical manifestation. The one who knows who and what she is knows what she sees, and, as the Divine sees the Divine in all and, as the old is relinquished, the world is made new” -Paul Selig (Beyond the Known)
