{"id":19275,"date":"2020-09-02T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:13:53","slug":"trusting-in-the-true-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19275","title":{"rendered":"Trusting In the &#8220;True You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>True Self\/Separate Self<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trusting\nin the&nbsp;\u201cTrue You\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, \u202fSeptember 2,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8pIqE-Mxx1g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Our separate self is who we <em>think<\/em>&nbsp;we are, but our\nthinking does not make it true. It is a social and mental construct that gets\nus started on life\u2019s journey. It is a set of agreements between us as\nindividuals and our parents, families, school friends, partner or spouse,\nculture, and religion. It is our \u201ccontainer.\u201d It is largely defined in\ndistinction from others, precisely as our separate and unique self. It is\nprobably necessary to get started, but it becomes problematic when we stop\nthere and spend the rest of our lives promoting and protecting it. This small\nand separate self is merely our launching pad: our appearance, education, job,\nmoney, success, and so on. These are the trappings of ego that help us get\nthrough an ordinary day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please\nunderstand that the separate self is not bad or inherently deceitful. It is\nactually quite good and necessary as far as it goes; it just does not go far\nenough. Too often, it poses and substitutes for the real thing and pretends to\nbe more than it is. The separate self is bogus more than bad. We need the\ntemporary costumes of our egoic selves to get started, but they show their\nlimitations when they stay around too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nwe are able to move beyond our separate self, <em>it will feel as if we lost nothing important at all.<\/em>&nbsp;Of course, if we don\u2019t know that there is\nanything \u201cbeyond\u201d the separate self, the transition will probably feel like\ndying. Only after we have fallen into the True Self, will we be able to say\nwith the mystic Rumi (1207\u20121273), \u201cWhat have I ever lost by\ndying?\u201d [1] We have discovered true freedom and liberation. When we are\nconnected to the Whole, we no longer need to protect or defend the smaller\nparts. We are connected to something inexhaustible and unhurtable. <em>The True Self cannot be hurt.<\/em>&nbsp;I said that at the National AIDS Conference\none time, and it was one of the most healing lines for that crowd. I got\nletters for months afterward; they realized the \u201cTrue You\u201d is indestructible.\nAll our hurts and feelings of being offended come from our separate selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we do <em>not<\/em>&nbsp;let go of our\nseparate self\/false self at the right time and in the right way, we remain\nstuck, trapped, and addicted. (The traditional word for that was <em>sin.<\/em>) Unfortunately, many people reach old age still\nentrenched in their egoic operating system. Only our True Self lives forever\nand is truly free in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Self\/Separate Self Trusting in the&nbsp;\u201cTrue You\u201d&nbsp; Wednesday, \u202fSeptember 2, 2020 Our separate self is who we think&nbsp;we are, but our thinking does not make it true. It is a social and mental construct that gets us started on life\u2019s journey. It is a set of agreements between us as individuals and our parents, families, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19276,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}