Another You
There is another you hidden from sight, not yet known or unravelled. That you is a better side of you. If you have not met it, you will always consider this present you as your best. And to those of you whose unworthiness or loneliness is a suffering state to endure, take comfort that there is another you that is beyond such a state.
Where to find the other you? That is a good question to start with. If there is another you, will it be that when you find it, you have a split personality and probably become more confused than you already are? Not exactly. In fact, the contrary is true.
The better side of you will make you realise that all this while, this side of you is a "makeup" or "a conjured state", where a delusional self made up the sense of you. You may also realise that without this delusion, the new you is more free, relaxed and not much perturbed by worldly happenings. Unlike before, where you were self-centred and selfish, now with the new found you, you will notice a sharp change of a right attitude about others or even yourself. You will notice you wouldn’t be as mean as before, and a little more loving too. You may also notice that you judge less than before. Probably compassion will be your gift.
Your learning to understand, practically of anything, takes precedent more than the trivial chase for good experiences. This better part of you is not very far from this moment. You just need to know how to access it. No one can access that for you but you need to be guided by another to gain the know-how. You may not comprehend or even fathom what I am saying but this is only because you do not have it yet. When you taste that new you, you will not be able to stop yourself from being amazed by its presence. It is not something that can be spoken about except to be realised by himself or herself. It is not any kind of brainwashing or positive thinking process. It is your natural state. Nothing is more real and natural than that.
I have yet to tell you how to begin to access that real You. Probably, meeting up and discussing about it will be a better way to understand what you need to do. But briefly, that new you can only be found through the doorway of your own mind. The mind that you have which you are so deeply identified with is preventing you from finding the other you. And that is when meditation becomes a useful tool to expedite the journey of discovering the new you. It won’t be anything close to what you can imagine. But you can be sure when you taste that new you, you wouldn’t want to turn back to your old self. Who on earth will return back to what he was when he was once ignorance?
You can say it is an awakening to a new you, yet not exactly a "you". A new year is approaching soon. Consider waking up from the dream of you!
In grace,
Tuck Loon
on behalf of The WISE Team
Newsletter 26 December 2020