Isaiah 26:19 · World English Bible
Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Most who walk this earth are not truly alive. They are lost in the endless stream of thought, dwelling in the dust of past and future, dreaming they are the small self the mind has made.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
The same verse, read by 2 traditions.
EGO & BEING
Most who walk this earth are not truly alive. They are lost in the endless stream of thought, dwelling in the dust of past and future, dreaming they are the small self the mind has made. To such sleepers the call comes: awake and sing.
Awakening is not something that happens after death. It happens now, when awareness turns back upon itself and you feel the aliveness within. The dew that revives you is presence, and presence is always here. The moment you become conscious of this moment, the dead in you stirs and rises into life.
AWARENESS
The dead are the ones still walking about, eating, marrying, arguing, all of it mechanical while nobody is at home inside. A life run by habit and memory is a burial that has never been recognized as one.
Awakening comes with singing, or it is not awakening. A man can open his eyes and turn bitter over the wasted years, and that bitterness is sleep in another posture. Dew falls on whoever consents to be new this morning, and the moment thinking goes quiet, what was lying in the dust rises without anyone having to lift it.
Ego v. Being lens
What in me has been asleep so long that I forgot it could wake?
The tradition says that the whole of practice is waking up, and that waking up is not a future event but something available in this breath. What dies is only the dream of being a separate, small self.
The teaching calls the ordinary human condition a kind of sleep, and says the one who knows the Self within is already awake while others dream their lives away.
He writes that the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you, so do not go back to sleep. The invitation is to rise now, not later.
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