Self Love and Awakening

Before I talk about Awakening, let us uncover the Truth of Self-love. Neglecting to make a distinction between Self and self is the most fundamental error made by most of us. We are told "love thy Self", and we take this to mean love the personality of the man or woman we believe ourselves to be. However, that is not the Self being referred to in this simple directive. Those three words invite you to love your True Self, not the concept of who you are as a "person", which is proposed by your mind.

Your mind is not real. "It, "the mind", does not exist! It is merely a label. The word "mind" was invented some time in recent past history to represent a human being's tendency to record and store experiences and then assemble these records in any given order that may be useful in predicting other experiences; an imaginary labyrinth of imaginings! It is bizarre that anyone would let this concept tell you who you are! This falls into the category of another simple three-word phrase: Know Thy Self, but that is for another time.

At this time in the history of mass consciousness on our planet, this labyrinth of imaginings has developed so far in a direction opposite of Truth, that most of humankind is suffering from no, or low, self esteem, the perfect condition to stop you from loving your True Self.

You cannot cover an attitude of self-loathing with a mental decision. Your mind has compiled many charges against this "person" called "you." It will serve up records of all the deeds and attributes that it has determined are not worthy of love, and remind you of all the days you failed to meet the goals it set for you, and all your weaknesses, and bad choices. This catalog of experiences is in direct opposition to what is True.

The Truth is that the mind is not qualified to judge your body, its experiences, or its perceptions and attributes. It is not qualified to give you directions, because it only has information stored about where it has already been. Mind is an imaginary catalog that can only convey its own conclusions about observations it makes. It has absolutely no qualifications to determine a value about anything.

Here's the good news: Your mind is not you! It is not even an aspect of you. It is your imagination in action, and it is only your Master if you accept it as such. You can choose to ignore it, and that creates "room for reality" in your life in that instant.

This unloving mind is also "at cause" when it comes to depleting your health. No doctor can delete the cause of dis-ease, as all dis-ease comes from the mind. Only the teacher who gives you the awareness of mind's non-existent qualifications, or the counselor who exposes the imaginary mind and its chaos, or an anchor of divine grace, who leads you to an Awakening can delete dis-ease. Mind is incapable of love. It cannot give up its own catalog of unloving attitudes and experiences. You can clear your body of the negative energies of blame, resentment, revenge and hatred, and be able to give or receive love, and in the instant you give mind an opening it will delete an act of giving with just one negative comment. Beware the power of such an imaginary concept as "the mind".

Now I will talk about Awakening and how it affects Self- love. At the moment an Awakening occurs, mind has been discredited. Because it is no longer considered worthy to make comments, it can no longer delete the True Self's acts of giving. Mind is not given a moments notice by Awakened awareness. Now that Self, the True Nature of an individual, has been liberated in another form, It can participate in the game of life unencumbered. Its natural condition of peace and love are now expressed as "Presence". An attitude of caring is extended from the now liberated body, as Self recognizing "Itself" in all that this body's sensory system observes.

Self is not the body, nor that data recorder that claims to be "me." Self includes everything as it manifests each moment. "I" (True Self) can appreciate all the awesomeness of all aspects of creation from yet another vantage point. Can "I" love "my" Self? Since "I" am SELF, both the lover, and the loved - who would be answering this question?