Spring of the soul is joyful and filled with new growth. It may arrive as a sudden epiphany during an ordinary day, a moment of deep clarity in meditation, or a profound sense of seeing that arises even in a dark night of the soul. It may be sparked by a teacher, a teaching, a plant medicine, or a moment of stillness in nature.
Spring is an opening. It is where we see for ourselves what is true, where belief is replaced by knowing. It is like blossoms turning toward the sunlight and naturally opening.
In spring, perception changes. You may feel lighter, freer, and less confined by old identities. The boundaries of separateness soften. You breathe more deeply. Joy, peace, and love arise more easily, offering glimpses of your true nature.
Spring brings relief. It validates the intuition that there is more to life than the struggle and survival of the seemingly separate self. We begin to see through the illusion of separation and taste the nondual, undivided ground of being.
Yet spring carries its own inner obstacles. One of the most common is forming a new identity around the experience of awakening. The ego can easily claim this openness and insight as a new way to feel special or separate.
Even the joy of a soul spring can trap us if we form a new spiritual identity from our awakening.
At this stage, it is common to feel more detached from the body and from the drama of daily life. You may feel above the mundane, more interested in transcendence. But without wisdom, this can harden into bypassing, spiritual arrogance, and the weaponizing of spiritual language.
We may think, “I am not my body. I am more than this life.” This can create a tendency to stand aloof, rejecting material reality as lesser and elevating spiritual reality as superior. This is a second, subtler duality. A new form of separation. A prettier box, but still a box.
Spring reminds us that awakened insight alone is not the completion of the journey. Seeing has not yet ripened into its fullness, and it is important not to pretend we are already in summer. Celebrate the gifts of spring, but do not settle into a new, more “spiritual” or “conscious” identity.
Spring prepares the ground for summer. The task of spring is not to cling to openness, but to allow it to mature. What we begin to discover is that even as the mind, heart, and felt sense of the body open and close, something deeper, the true I, is always open.
If mystical experiences expand your seeing, accept the gifts. And then look for the deepest gift of all: the ordinary awareness that is present for the mystical experience. It is the same ordinary awareness that is present for the mundane.
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