Consciousness within body...

We spend a good part of our life if not most of our life weaving a 'me' that is separate from the world. We confuse consciousness to be a body and we define a 'me' that is born on such and such a date and that is on a time clock. We somehow overlook that we are the consciousness to which the body is appearing.

Once that original sin is committed, it is all downhill from there. More and more stucco and wire mesh is wrapped around the body mind, more and more beliefs, definitions, judgments, defense patterns and strategies, alliances and plots, stories that reinforce the definitions, are put in place, set in concrete.

The play of consciousness becomes serious and we are deep in the suffering. Our life becomes mostly miserable with every now and then a ray of sunshine.
Then all sorts of strategies to end the suffering are adopted...all of which are ineffective as we are unwilling to look at the illusory nature of the 'me' structure that we have so ardently catered to and identified with.

It is as if dismantling the 'separate me' structure will be the death of the 'me'. It becomes very scary to inquire into the separate self. No one wants to explore that what they believe they are is unreal. It feels like death of 'me'.

And, it is.
This sort of death, the death of the separate self is the resurrection.
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This sort of death is your salvation. Do not worry, it is the death of ignorance, the death of the false. Welcome it and fearlessly open up to it.
It is through this gate-less gate that you will realize your true nature, the freedom that you are, that you have eternally been!
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Magdi Em Be