I am breaking free from the illusion of separation. Nothing has caused me greater suffering than this idea. The idea of self sufficiency is such a trap. The idea that I have to figure everything out on my own, accept no help from others, become the creator, dictator, and the experiencer all in one. What a horrible reality. Tyranny. The idea that I have to be the best and prove it. An identity found in self declaration. We have managed to turn ourselves inside out.
I am part of a web, and there are many of us. There is life in everything. Everything moves towards integration and oneness. The reason why you feel so terrible when you are alone is because you are love, and love is about the relationship between things. You are designed to be connected. And you are connected, whether you try to cut yourself of from that reality or not. How does an artist discover the art or the musician the music? They tap into what is already there. They recognize what's inside and outside and they allow it to flow through themselves. They realize there's no destination so they just go with it. The let it stop and start wherever it needs to, because there's no need for control. Control is an illusion. Control stops the movement. Control is a snapshot of a moving reality. Once you take the picture, it's no longer the truth, because the truth has changed, it's moved forward, and if you spend too much time looking at that snapshot of perfection or rightness or whatever, you miss what's happening, what's evolving, and you move further and further away from the truth. Because the truth moves away from you, and you are stuck back there with the picture of then.
The spirit is always moving. And so are we. And the images and the pictures, they distract. They aren't so good for us. They keep us away from the NAU. Or the now. It's hard to learn this, these days. Because we're so fragmented. We see the truth from one picture and we say "oh there it is" and then again in another and say "oh there it is" and we try to understand the truth by collecting snapshots of it, never recognizing that the truth is within and around us and moving all the time. We try to hold it in our minds alone, when it's in everything, and must be experienced as a complete whole. We are already this way when we are children, we just are. We are free.
The fragmented mind is an uncomfortable thing. The mind in the One or the Living One is life. Learning to stay in the One is the skill that each of us is learning to master. We are all awakening to this reality beneath and preceding the illusion we have built up collectively that is making us so unhappy. It brings me great peace to know that after the breakdown is the discovery of beautiful and solid truth.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
God is Our Taproot
The kingdom won't come by saying "look there it is, or look, here it is."
The kingdom is inside of you and outside of you.
When you know yourself you will be known,
and you will know that you are a child of the Living One.
-Yeshua
From the Gospel of Thomas, Logion 3 and 22
Duality
There is the two, that create our reality. You can call it the male and the female, as Jesus does in his creation story.
God is in everything, every piece of our material world, and in the world between.
The physical world is male, and The other world, or space, is female.
The male world is agreed upon, it's the part that manifests. The female world, or space, is full of infinite possibilities. As possibilities are decided or agreed upon, they are made manifest.
Spirituality is the movement between the two worlds. It's the unifying force. And it unifies everything, but lends itself to each unique situation. This is the creativity of the universe.
Jesus was spirit incarnate. He saw the truth and was able to speak of it.
The human mind is a great manipulator. We are brought into all knowledge without knowing that we are all knowledge, and so we unknowingly store that knowledge in the two separate arenas in order to adapt. We adapt down, essentially. A baby comes in seeing and perceiving everything. The brain picks up millions of bits of information per second. But it's too much sensory overload for the not fully developed infant brain, and it's unfocused information, so the brain starts to pick and chose which parts of reality it's going to process unconsciously and which parts it's going to bring into consciousness to deal with. It usually moves into practical things like recognizing people's faces, the physical world, emotional bonds, etc. So it's still coming in, we just don't know it. Trauma focuses our world down considerably.
This is why: "an elder will not hesitate to ask a child 7 days of age (1 day before circumcision) about the place of life, and he will live."
The baby is already in the place of life. That's what it's like when we are heaven. Just... pure spirit, no need for a body, just knowing and being held in god's love and reality. And god rules all, I would imagine.
I don't know why we come into physical body, but we are designed to integrate our awareness into the conscious mind once we are fully developed and matured. And as far as the spiritual path goes, it's a process of individuation. We come in completely dependent on god, and full of him/her. But we can't walk here with all that, in the body, yet. We have to adapt down, and work on smaller challenges, overcome them and then integrate the knowledge of both the unconscious and conscious mind into our awareness. And the more dysfunction we have faced, the harder that can be. I guess it's called sin, those things that keep us from wanting to know the truth. Sin makes us self condemn, so we hide from ourselves. But Jesus teaches it's exactly what we're here to do. We are here to come to know ourselves, to face ourselves, and to love ourselves.
"When you know yourself you will be known, and you will know that you are a child of the Living One."
When you manage to hold all these things in your awareness, then you start to resonate differently. And everything around you becomes alive. This is a difficult thing. Especially if you've hidden things within yourself, as we all have and we all do. This is why Jesus forgives, so that we may face these things and move forward. But it's also why he pointed out so many of people's flaws, because those that were unwilling to look at themselves were the most arrogant, and often held the higest positions of power, but were out of touch with their hidden selves. So those who knew they had made mistakes, and asked for forgiveness, were open to seeing and being seen, were forgiven, or relieved of their difficulties. Why is this so? Because we all make mistakes. We are all sinners. Every one of us. And we can't judge eachother. When we start to judge others, we lose our focus of those things that we need to bring to the light in ourselves.
So we must understand that we are trying to move into a state of constant awareness. As things pop up in us that are out of God's will (if you will) then we must be aware of them. Awareness changes them. Awareness allows god into it. You can't be forgiven, or relieved of your difficulities, until you know what they are. Because God is yoking you. He is turning you into the one with the knowing. He is letting us grow up. So if you ask for forgiveness, you are likely to be shown what you've done wrong. But don't be discouraged. Be grateful, because God loves you so much that just seeing it and facing it and recognizing it for what it is, it changes. God lets you change, over and over and over again. Because that's what we're here to do. And how can you learn about it unless you make manifest your difficulties in this reality? You came here to learn to know yourself.
See, where we end, God begins, and we become one with God. People come to the end of their power to find that there is something beyond, something grater. This is where we find a new power. There is beauty in the breakdown. This is why it is a blessing to recognize your limitations:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth (rule over all).
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for great is your treasure in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Jesus, Matthew 5
So theres'a lot of messages in this. But one is to recognize is that when we come to god, we won't be popular. We're probably going to be outcasted at that point, we basically will have fallen out of favor with a large part of the world. And that's ok. Because the world at times, is trying to hide from itself. It hides from even the fact that we die, we're obsessed with youth. The world we've created does not so much reflect who we are, as who we think we should be, and it's a shame because who we are is infinitely better and more fulfilling and beautiful.
So when you come to the end of yourself, know you're about to pick up something grater. Being stripped down to your essential self is a gift, though we all try to avoid it. Why wouldn't we, it's what we've been taught our entire lives? But that's ok, we change. We start to recognize the truth. This is true maturation. This is coming to the spiritual path. Lives change when we come to this. When we become this, we accept it, we get a whole new world. And we don't stay in poverty, we don't stay sick. Reading on we find that Jesus promises new material crap to serve us. But we must always be willing to give it all up, and never rely on it. Always rely on the taproot that is God. Because through God, all things are made manifest as we need them, and we don't have to focus on it or worry about it.
The kingdom is inside of you and outside of you.
When you know yourself you will be known,
and you will know that you are a child of the Living One.
-Yeshua
From the Gospel of Thomas, Logion 3 and 22
Duality
There is the two, that create our reality. You can call it the male and the female, as Jesus does in his creation story.
God is in everything, every piece of our material world, and in the world between.
The physical world is male, and The other world, or space, is female.
The male world is agreed upon, it's the part that manifests. The female world, or space, is full of infinite possibilities. As possibilities are decided or agreed upon, they are made manifest.
Spirituality is the movement between the two worlds. It's the unifying force. And it unifies everything, but lends itself to each unique situation. This is the creativity of the universe.
Jesus was spirit incarnate. He saw the truth and was able to speak of it.
The human mind is a great manipulator. We are brought into all knowledge without knowing that we are all knowledge, and so we unknowingly store that knowledge in the two separate arenas in order to adapt. We adapt down, essentially. A baby comes in seeing and perceiving everything. The brain picks up millions of bits of information per second. But it's too much sensory overload for the not fully developed infant brain, and it's unfocused information, so the brain starts to pick and chose which parts of reality it's going to process unconsciously and which parts it's going to bring into consciousness to deal with. It usually moves into practical things like recognizing people's faces, the physical world, emotional bonds, etc. So it's still coming in, we just don't know it. Trauma focuses our world down considerably.
This is why: "an elder will not hesitate to ask a child 7 days of age (1 day before circumcision) about the place of life, and he will live."
The baby is already in the place of life. That's what it's like when we are heaven. Just... pure spirit, no need for a body, just knowing and being held in god's love and reality. And god rules all, I would imagine.
I don't know why we come into physical body, but we are designed to integrate our awareness into the conscious mind once we are fully developed and matured. And as far as the spiritual path goes, it's a process of individuation. We come in completely dependent on god, and full of him/her. But we can't walk here with all that, in the body, yet. We have to adapt down, and work on smaller challenges, overcome them and then integrate the knowledge of both the unconscious and conscious mind into our awareness. And the more dysfunction we have faced, the harder that can be. I guess it's called sin, those things that keep us from wanting to know the truth. Sin makes us self condemn, so we hide from ourselves. But Jesus teaches it's exactly what we're here to do. We are here to come to know ourselves, to face ourselves, and to love ourselves.
"When you know yourself you will be known, and you will know that you are a child of the Living One."
When you manage to hold all these things in your awareness, then you start to resonate differently. And everything around you becomes alive. This is a difficult thing. Especially if you've hidden things within yourself, as we all have and we all do. This is why Jesus forgives, so that we may face these things and move forward. But it's also why he pointed out so many of people's flaws, because those that were unwilling to look at themselves were the most arrogant, and often held the higest positions of power, but were out of touch with their hidden selves. So those who knew they had made mistakes, and asked for forgiveness, were open to seeing and being seen, were forgiven, or relieved of their difficulties. Why is this so? Because we all make mistakes. We are all sinners. Every one of us. And we can't judge eachother. When we start to judge others, we lose our focus of those things that we need to bring to the light in ourselves.
So we must understand that we are trying to move into a state of constant awareness. As things pop up in us that are out of God's will (if you will) then we must be aware of them. Awareness changes them. Awareness allows god into it. You can't be forgiven, or relieved of your difficulities, until you know what they are. Because God is yoking you. He is turning you into the one with the knowing. He is letting us grow up. So if you ask for forgiveness, you are likely to be shown what you've done wrong. But don't be discouraged. Be grateful, because God loves you so much that just seeing it and facing it and recognizing it for what it is, it changes. God lets you change, over and over and over again. Because that's what we're here to do. And how can you learn about it unless you make manifest your difficulties in this reality? You came here to learn to know yourself.
See, where we end, God begins, and we become one with God. People come to the end of their power to find that there is something beyond, something grater. This is where we find a new power. There is beauty in the breakdown. This is why it is a blessing to recognize your limitations:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth (rule over all).
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for great is your treasure in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Jesus, Matthew 5
So theres'a lot of messages in this. But one is to recognize is that when we come to god, we won't be popular. We're probably going to be outcasted at that point, we basically will have fallen out of favor with a large part of the world. And that's ok. Because the world at times, is trying to hide from itself. It hides from even the fact that we die, we're obsessed with youth. The world we've created does not so much reflect who we are, as who we think we should be, and it's a shame because who we are is infinitely better and more fulfilling and beautiful.
So when you come to the end of yourself, know you're about to pick up something grater. Being stripped down to your essential self is a gift, though we all try to avoid it. Why wouldn't we, it's what we've been taught our entire lives? But that's ok, we change. We start to recognize the truth. This is true maturation. This is coming to the spiritual path. Lives change when we come to this. When we become this, we accept it, we get a whole new world. And we don't stay in poverty, we don't stay sick. Reading on we find that Jesus promises new material crap to serve us. But we must always be willing to give it all up, and never rely on it. Always rely on the taproot that is God. Because through God, all things are made manifest as we need them, and we don't have to focus on it or worry about it.
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