I've realized that truth cannot be found in the mind. Truth cannot change, and since the mind constantly changes, it cannot be found there. Considering that, truth simply exists everywhere at every time- you don't have to attain anything to find truth.
The purpose of religion runs contradictory to this. Religion consists of attaining knowledge, information, and adopting a belief system. This is unnecessary- you don't need to do that to live the truth.
Don't you wonder what would happen to someone who had no contact with people and their cultures and belief systems? How would they find the truth. If they were born into isolation, are they doomed? Is it impossible for them to live a truthful life? Truth cannot be absent or unavailable for anyone anywhere. It is actually so simple that people completely miss it.
Religion is actually deception. It is a mind construct made of separation, so you can in no way find the oneness of life. People fall into the trap of unconsciousness, and decide to do what their mind tells them to. "If everyone believes in Jesus, why don't you?" So now all the people who don't believe in Christ or God or Christianity are considered to be wrong people. They are wrong because they don't believe that there is a Son of God who governs over and controls dirty sinners like us. Those who don't believe in inequality and hierarchies are apparently damned to hell.
But all of these believe are completely random! If you were stuck in silent darkness with no outside contact at all, how could you come to the realization of the truth as that Jesus or Krishna is the Savior, and that you must repent? That cannot be it. Thoughts are random and destructive. Belief systems based on shared thoughts don't make them true. Hey, they might look like it, but there is some loss involved in that separation. Is it possible that the truth is as simple as you exist as everything as one? Is it possible that this could only be realized outside the divided mind, outside belief and religion?
Don't let your mind make you who you are.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Life is Simple
Life is so simple that we completely miss the point. In our lives, we try to come up with a concept in order to discover the meaning of life. Once we have thought it through, we find the answer, but later our perception changes and we come up with a new definition. Yet, in order to understand life, we actually need to drop every concept we have come up with during our lives.
This is why it seems so hard. We find it necessary to structure our perceptions and create concepts in order to justify our way of living. It needs to be a specific, perhaps complicated system, like all of our present day religions. We refuse to let go of the mind, even though the simple truth will only come when the mind is silenced. Life is one and everything, so any separation involved in the understanding of life will be a false representation.
We go searching everywhere for something with meaning, something that lasts. But out in the world, we can never find satisfaction. But we go for it again and again, since we are unaware of any other options. So we hurt ourselves each time, living in separation, subject and object, and we can't accept the fact that only complete oneness and equality is eternally perfect.
Why is that so? Oneness and equality cannot bring about thought, as the mind consists of changing separation. We aren't patient enough to live oneness and equality because we have our habits and attachments that we refuse to give up. Salvation seems to not exist outside of that- it's the only thing we know and trust.
The truth of life cannot be complicated! We live unhappy, complicated lives, so it must be something very fundamental and simple that we are missing. We have to be empty in order to realize our inherent fullness, and Being is only found in not being. There are no opposites (including that of opposites vs. non-opposites), there are no hierarchies, and there is no separation in the truth of life. Life IS, so we must be HERE and let go of our patterns, traits, differences, attachments, our habits... even our minds.
This is why it seems so hard. We find it necessary to structure our perceptions and create concepts in order to justify our way of living. It needs to be a specific, perhaps complicated system, like all of our present day religions. We refuse to let go of the mind, even though the simple truth will only come when the mind is silenced. Life is one and everything, so any separation involved in the understanding of life will be a false representation.
We go searching everywhere for something with meaning, something that lasts. But out in the world, we can never find satisfaction. But we go for it again and again, since we are unaware of any other options. So we hurt ourselves each time, living in separation, subject and object, and we can't accept the fact that only complete oneness and equality is eternally perfect.
Why is that so? Oneness and equality cannot bring about thought, as the mind consists of changing separation. We aren't patient enough to live oneness and equality because we have our habits and attachments that we refuse to give up. Salvation seems to not exist outside of that- it's the only thing we know and trust.
The truth of life cannot be complicated! We live unhappy, complicated lives, so it must be something very fundamental and simple that we are missing. We have to be empty in order to realize our inherent fullness, and Being is only found in not being. There are no opposites (including that of opposites vs. non-opposites), there are no hierarchies, and there is no separation in the truth of life. Life IS, so we must be HERE and let go of our patterns, traits, differences, attachments, our habits... even our minds.
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