Life/Death/Life Cycle of Awakening

When I set out on this path, my mind thought that there would be some sort of blissful rainbow at the end of the tunnel. Just like many others, I assumed the path of awakening would be some sort of reward in which you are gifted a state of total bliss.

Oh how the mind imagines. That right there is the crux of it. The mind doesn’t get anything. You actually have to give up the mind (or ego) to go anywhere on the awakened path.

Awakening is a continuous cycle of Life/Death/Life. In order to awaken, you have to shed, and something has to die. In this case, your ego has to shed, it has to die and then it has to evolve so a new you (a new state of consciousness) can live.

Essentially you have to give in, surrender, become transparent, and carve out holes in your ego so that the light of spirit, the divine, god, the universe, or whatever you want to call it, can shine through.

And this cycle of Life/Death/Life, it can be extremely challenging at times.

But at your core, you know there is a calling, and that it’s not even you that’s calling, it’s the awakened consciousness that is already in you. And it’s calling you to heed your soul, to answer the call, to start to awaken unto yourself. It wants to thrive, live, love and learn through you. It is you. It wants to be the life on the other side of the Life/Death/Life cycle.

And as we look around us, the Life/Death/Life cycle is everywhere. It’s the innate nature of the universe, of the cosmos. So why wouldn’t we also follow this same rhythm. It’s in our nature to shed, to evolve, to grow, and, yes, to die. Without this cycle the world would be stagnate, stuck and would not flow. The Life/Death/Life cycle is flow. It’s the flow of the universe.

We only get in trouble when we resist and fight this natural flow. Because dying is scary and hard and it hurts. But what hurts more, being stuck, resisting, and saying no to the flow, or letting go, taking a deep breath of trust, and jumping in. The flow will take care of you, take just one step, take that one inch and just say yes. Even if it hurts and everything inside of you is screaming no. Just take that one little step towards yes and the cycle will flow.

Let go and say yes to this Life/Death/Life cycle. Because it’s how the world flows. And everything that dies, is always reborn. Always.