Flying Dung!

I wonder if Dung Beetles fly?   Because it certainly appears that dung does,  at least when its ego dung, that is.  Ego dung definitely ends up flying around.  Take this morning for example.  I commented on a post in a non-dual Facebook group.  Honestly I didn’t think anything of it.  The post said something like: It’s possible to be fully aligned with Awareness and still happily participate in all aspects of the physical world.  My comment was simple: Possible, yes.  Probable… not so much.  My point was, it’s not easy to live in both worlds, and clearly not for the faint of heart.  Meanwhile within a few minutes, I had unknowingly engaged a lot of egos and the dung was flying fast.  So fast actually, I had to laugh.

People instantly started offering advice and arguing with each other about those offerings.  I quickly gave up and stopped reading.  

But how strange to think that these self-acclaimed enlightened ones are still surfing the internet and arguing with others on Facebook. How interesting to be told what to do - or offered concrete answers and quick fixes by someone sitting in the absolute peace of Awareness.

According to Ram Dass in his 1995 book, Miracle of Love, Maharajji  once said (with respect to the starving children in India) “But Ram Dass, can’t you see that it is perfect?”  If starving children are perfect in the eyes of an enlightened being,  doesn’t it follow that I (and everyone else on Facebook) am/is also perfect?

Would an enlightened being actively try to win an argument?  Wound an awakened one?  Or is that the work of ego and form? Clearly, you can guess my answer.

I’m also perplexed by the sheer number of people who are apparently, now sitting comfortably among the awakened /enlightened teachers.  Of course there has been a huge rise in spiritual growth and awareness over the last 30 years, but have that many people so quickly figured it out?  Is everyone, but me, living their happily-ever-after post-kundalini awakening?  Did their marriages and jobs survive?  Am I the anomaly? 

How is it that wrestling with my own ego has essentially cost me everything - or at least my attachment to everything. Over the last 6 years, I’ve become increasingly ungrounded and confused. I’ve given away everything, including my dog. I’ve bounced between 8 different houses and 5 different vans and RV’s,  I’ve lived for months in an empty apartment and weeks in my minivan. Without an ego framework, my attachment to form itself has been threatened.  

Secretly, (or perhaps not so secretly as I sit here telling you, and all of cyberspace), my own ego rationalizes that many of those preaching about a comfortable awakening have likely shifted, (rather than dissolved), their ego minds.  In other words,  Bob the husband, father, and business man, becomes Bob the deeply spiritual husband, father, and business man.  Qualifiers are added, not taken away. 

Which.. as Maharajja would say, is simply perfect.