the resonance function

The only reason for a spiritual teacher to tell you what your true self is, to tell you who you are underneath all the surface identity, is because you might want to hear it. The surface part of you seldom does, but a resonance occurs in the layers beneath that part, and eventually the resonance asserts higher value than the things in its way.

I'd like to tell you what your true self is, to tell you who you are underneath all the surface identity. I really would. I'd like you to want to hear it too. I'd like you to open up momentarily to the real possibility of resonating with what you hear. Maybe if you do, you'll discover the things in the way are not in the way after all, but beautiful channels for more true self to shine through.

The real you, the one underneath all the surface identity, is very different than all the surface identity. It's different because it isn't a thing. Unlike everything else you might call yourself and as which you might think of yourself, the real you is not something you can capture by calling it something or conceiving of it in any way. That's why it's so difficult to grasp. Grasping it doesn't work. It can't be grasped, manually or mentally.

Your surface identity will often check out at this news. It's ridiculously easy for a surface identity accustomed to thing-ing and concept-ing to disqualify information that won't permit a thing or a concept to win the day. What else can that part of you do? Opening up to a world beyond things and concepts is threatening to it. What I'm trying to tell you is not opening up to that world is more threatening to it for creating discord and dysfunction.

The place of resonance is where your true values are. You discover the greater authority of those values precisely because you neglect them and pay the price. The price is the teacher who tells you to get the values in the right order already. The spiritual teacher is the one who reminds you that you want to, because you already know.

The part of you that wants to, the part of you that already knows, is seeking a reminder on the outside, from the teacher. The teacher is happy enough to give one. But giving one takes the form of a steadfast refusal to overly indulge the surface identity. That's something you can do on your own, and generally have to.

So without further ado, let me remind you what you are, not because it's actually possible to put it in words, but because you who are listening are ready to go where the words suggest without taking the words along with you. Are you ready to do that? Is your resonance function coming to the surface?

The real you is that function. There you go. It's not more complicated than that. The real you is the ability to be open and resonate. The rest of you is all the scrambling to get there that gets in the way of its own goal. That's the surface identity. That's where the words become an issue and you wrestle with them instead of resonating.