Short story: Our real, and false selves

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The Jewish Rabbi, Rabbi Anton Breksteve, was talking to his students about the real self. Here is what he told them: "The Persian Sufi Poet, and mystic, Rumi, said this of love:" "'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and then embrace them.'" "I say that the same sentiment applies to your being your real self." "Do not try to be, to seek, or to find this real self." "For who can be our real self?" "Who is the we that is seeking, wanting to be this real self, thinking that we are not it already, right now?" "Why, of course, this is your false self!" "The message to be your real self is being directed at your false self, not at your real self, which is already always its self, your real self." "And so, do not try to be your real self, I say again. Do not try to find it. Do not search for it." "These are all the actions of your false self." "No, do as Rumi, suggested here to do with love." "Just drop all of the barriers, such as your ingrained habits, indoctrinated beliefs, subconscious wantings, and programmings, anxious thoughts, and thinking, and wayward negative feelings. In short, drop all of the barriers in you, of this false self, which are preventing you right now from already being your real self, right now too." "Have you any questions about this idea?" he then asked his students. One bright student then asked the Rabbi. "This all sounds pretty good, but I would say that you are missing one vital point here." The Rabbi, smiled, and answered him: "And what is that point, my lad." "The fact is that we stay as our false self until we grow in consciousness enough to be fully able to do all of this, to be aware enough to drop all of these traits of our false self." "The journey of life, is about growing into conscious awareness, dropping our unconscious drives, and unloving thoughts, and becoming fully conscious loving beings, embracing our full real self, being it fully then too." "Our real self is not conscious, but is in seed form only, and when we shower it with consciousness, it grows in us, and we grow with it, to be all it, and we, can be." "Life here is a duality of growth." "Both our false self, and our real self serve this growth." "We should not then drop anything, but grow from all parts of ourselves, in unison with that growth, which consciousness growing (in us), allows to take place in the energy of God's love, which is all around, and in us too." The Rabbi smiled, even wider. "That is well said," he said. "I concur to that. You are correct indeed. What you have said just sounds right, whereas my idea really was missing that vital ingredient of the role of consciousness, and conscious growth within it." The best of teachers always allow themselves to learn from their students like this too. This Rabbi was not too proud to learn from his students either. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Life is about God being in your life, not about you being in your life alone. One was is of greed, the other is of God, of love.