Dial into SELF

 Be without yesterday’s bitter memories

and tomorrow’s anxious cares.

Ramana Maharshi

 

I went for my dental cleaning, and man, did that lady poke at my teeth. For these 15 minutes or so I was my body, but then today all of this is a distant memory. The stock market goes up or down, and for a minute or two I feel greed or despair, and then once again, all a distant memory. It is as if there is an inner dial and happy are those who can catch themselves when they get triggered into an illusionary identification and then simply move on without suppressing or projecting.

 

We understand the self as that what is always the same. Yet, what truly is the same is the S (ilence), the E (nergy), the L (ove) and life’s F (low)—SELF in short. Everything else is just a story in motion that appears to be stable, but it is not. Awake to SELF and Bob is your uncle. Everything else are just passing phenomena. The root meaning of the word identification is “always the same.” It is not. The identifications are shifting constantly, while SELF remains the same.