Natural Harmony

As I said before, it is important to realize that although we are taking back or extracting our identity out of thought and feeling and personality, we are not denying or dissociating ourselves from these exterior elements of experience. Inquiry is not a practice of pushing anything away; it is simply a way of getting identity to wake up from the dream of separation. But even when it wakes up, there is still a body there. There is still a personality there. There is still a rudimentary ego structure there. The difference is that once we recognize ourselves as awareness itself, our identity can begin to rest in its essence. Who we are is no longer found in our body, mind, personalities, thoughts, and beliefs. Who we are rests in its source.

When we rest in our source, our bodies and minds and personalities and feelings come into harmony. What I mean by harmony is that we are no longer divided against ourselves. I think most human beings can recognize that often the ego is actually defined by a certain inner divisiveness; certain parts of our egos are at war or are at odds with other parts of our egos. We want to be somebody that we can't really be. We want to think thoughts that we can't really think. We want to appear in ways that we don't actually appear. We want to be better than we actually are. We have all these conflicting ideas and feelings and emotions when our identity is caught up in ego-personality. Quite mysteriously, when we extract our identity from the ego-personality, the ego-personality comes into a harmony. These psychic and emotional forces are no longer at odds with each other. This harmony may not immediately arise in its deepest possible way, but this is where the journey begins. We come into a harmony of body, mind, and personality because we are no longer identified with body, mind, and personality.