Finding Self

Transcending (not eliminating) and going deeper into one’s self, one is likely to find a doorway to a much different kind of identity than the one with which one has been functioning from the time of birth and transmitted through parents, reinforced by culture and society . – after Ram Das

From “How to Recognize a Dragon's Lair” (poetry collection by yers trooley)

There is a mammoth door in nature through which pass both life and death.

It’s not very far away from here but requires the deepest detachment in order to touch it,

look through it with clarity at our future or back with any real understanding of our past.

That detachment is what is meant by the word “unconditional.”

By definition, the unconditional has no conditions, and we are full of them,

and we do not want to grieve their circumstances.

Most of us are wholly unaccustomed to the weather behind that mammoth door,

granting preference for the Déjà vu pain of our present blindness —

our slammed thumb — than live within its seasons.

We don’t want unconditional-ness. We want specialness.