Last night I had a dream that I encountered a criminal/psychopath in a canyon. We were all alone, and he became hostile. I think he was trying to kill himself. But I was confident that I could help him. I thought that I could solve the problem effortlessly. But he then pulled a knife on me, and pointed it at my throat. I remember feeling like I wasn't ready to die, like I couldn't face it. So I woke up from the dream, and I've been wondering why I felt uneasy and uncomfortable. Of course, no one wants to die, but it was a dream- I had some awareness of the fact that it wasn't real, but I still felt threatened. My dream showed me an underlying, subconscious fear that I carry with me at all times. I notice that it is actually the fear that makes me suffer- the pain itself of dying is nothing in comparison! In fact, I doubt that there is no pain if I am willing to die anyway. I've had other similar dreams of where I was going to die, and I would wake up and realize that I couldn't die.
The mind is quite interesting. After a while, the mind is revealed to be every world in existence, include the physical world, the dream world, and the dimensional world. It's all a manifestation. But it's interesting to use dreams to deal with your fears. You get to watch your reactions to your own creation. You get to see that you created the psychopath, and that you allowed it to make you afraid! It's a great feeling, but it's frustrating at the same time, because you're still suffering.
I now know that it is my problem for sure- that nothing can hurt me or make me suffer except for myself. I create the walls and the sharp objects and the paranoia! Therefore, I can rest. I can embrace my fears and my sickness, because I know I am its creator, its source of energy. I am ready to die, because I know that I am death. I am the killer and the victim. It is all a game, all a dream, and I am its author.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Faith/Hope is Useless
I've noticed that Christians use the words faith, hope, and love as essential aspects or virtues of their religion. For me, however, I see no use in any of them. They are all mind activities and artificial truths.
Faith:
The use of the word faith implies that one puts trust in God or in Christ. Those who have faith do so in order to make sure that they are protected by the Holy Trinity. "I have faith that God will guide me in the right direction." This seems necessary; people believe that we will not be able to function properly without the guidance of God. If there is no one to guide us, what will we do, right? If this is what you believe, you have lost your own center of power. You will give it all over to God and make assumptions about what God is doing. You will be God's slave, but you won't realize that you are actually doing this to yourself. That power that you think is God was actually created by you so that you could have faith in Him. You created God to make him do whatever you want him to do! Your presence is hidden or seemingly removed from yourself in order to simulate your idea of God! This means your faith is faith in your own system! Let go of all your concepts of faith in a higher power! You are the power! And your power is not is the higher power, but it is not above you, below you, nor separate from you! That power is no other than yourself and no other than anyone else!
Hope:
Hope is a very delusional concept. It brings in the idea of being positive, which is central in New Age teachings. Instead of being negative, you can be positive! Great! It's the other side of the coin! Anyway, hope obviously involves the future. It is the belief that something great is going to happen in the future... a positive change of some sort. This is quite a sad thing, because it is an attempt to be positive while overlooking the present. And when the present is ignored, that suggests that the present is undesirable or displeasing. Christians and other related religious groups are hoping that something great will happen later in their lives. By doing so, you are again overlooking your own presence! You are defining yourself as someone who is lacking something or is incomplete. And if you always have hope, you will always define yourself as incomplete! Everyone knows that even if our hopes come true, we still feel incomplete! Then we hope for something else. And it never ends, until we make the choice to be aware of our own existence, our own presence, our own wholeness.
Love:
This is the most controversial one. This is a virtue because everyone knows how it feels to be loved. No one wants to be hated. So we attempt to extend perfect love to others, in hope that we will be loved back. We want to be recognized. But again, this "need" to be recognized implies that we are incomplete! And so this love is not unconditional, because we expect love in return. The aim of the virtue itself blocks the follower from ever reaching unconditional love. Why? Because we need to get rid of the mind defining who we are as needing or afraid or weak. We have to let all ideas of ourself go so that we can let "love" appear as who we are. And then there is no need to love anyone else... we will all be revealed to be united, so there is no way that we could not love, since we are everyone, as one.
The problem with these virtues is that they are all mind created, and suppress the awareness of ourselves. All we need to "do" is to stop doing and allow ourselves to exist instead of trying to go somewhere else with who we are.
Faith:
The use of the word faith implies that one puts trust in God or in Christ. Those who have faith do so in order to make sure that they are protected by the Holy Trinity. "I have faith that God will guide me in the right direction." This seems necessary; people believe that we will not be able to function properly without the guidance of God. If there is no one to guide us, what will we do, right? If this is what you believe, you have lost your own center of power. You will give it all over to God and make assumptions about what God is doing. You will be God's slave, but you won't realize that you are actually doing this to yourself. That power that you think is God was actually created by you so that you could have faith in Him. You created God to make him do whatever you want him to do! Your presence is hidden or seemingly removed from yourself in order to simulate your idea of God! This means your faith is faith in your own system! Let go of all your concepts of faith in a higher power! You are the power! And your power is not is the higher power, but it is not above you, below you, nor separate from you! That power is no other than yourself and no other than anyone else!
Hope:
Hope is a very delusional concept. It brings in the idea of being positive, which is central in New Age teachings. Instead of being negative, you can be positive! Great! It's the other side of the coin! Anyway, hope obviously involves the future. It is the belief that something great is going to happen in the future... a positive change of some sort. This is quite a sad thing, because it is an attempt to be positive while overlooking the present. And when the present is ignored, that suggests that the present is undesirable or displeasing. Christians and other related religious groups are hoping that something great will happen later in their lives. By doing so, you are again overlooking your own presence! You are defining yourself as someone who is lacking something or is incomplete. And if you always have hope, you will always define yourself as incomplete! Everyone knows that even if our hopes come true, we still feel incomplete! Then we hope for something else. And it never ends, until we make the choice to be aware of our own existence, our own presence, our own wholeness.
Love:
This is the most controversial one. This is a virtue because everyone knows how it feels to be loved. No one wants to be hated. So we attempt to extend perfect love to others, in hope that we will be loved back. We want to be recognized. But again, this "need" to be recognized implies that we are incomplete! And so this love is not unconditional, because we expect love in return. The aim of the virtue itself blocks the follower from ever reaching unconditional love. Why? Because we need to get rid of the mind defining who we are as needing or afraid or weak. We have to let all ideas of ourself go so that we can let "love" appear as who we are. And then there is no need to love anyone else... we will all be revealed to be united, so there is no way that we could not love, since we are everyone, as one.
The problem with these virtues is that they are all mind created, and suppress the awareness of ourselves. All we need to "do" is to stop doing and allow ourselves to exist instead of trying to go somewhere else with who we are.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Misidentification
Humans have become used to creating ideas with the mind so that they could believe in them without question. Some examples are the idea of God, of heaven, of angels- anything sacred and divine. We observe the world and we find no light in it. So, we start to have faith in heavenly things, in hope of something greater than the human condition.
We get a feeling that there's something we're missing. The world is dark and unforgiving. The only support we think we have comes from God, Christ Jesus, or some other "divine" being. So we reach out and try to contact the heavenly kingdom- we try to feel God. We let God embrace us in a sense, to the point that we are having a blissful experience. Yet inside of that, we think about God and how he is choosing to share this joyful moment with Him.
Then we feel completely sure that God exists. How could you experience bliss if he didn't exist, right? But we also get the feeling that God has control over us- he can choose what to do with us, he can take anything away from us, and he can leave us at anytime. Peace is not granted to us whenever we want. We realize that God can manipulate us.
Then we no longer experience bliss and power and peace and love. It is restricted. God chooses when you can experience Him. You are nothing without Him. You still call to the Masters and the Angels for guidance. They have power, so they can share it with you. But then we become dependent on them. You are a powerless, weak human, pleading for some guidance on how to become powerful.
You might use affirmations, saying "that which is above is that which is below," or "I am all powerful, perfect, heavenly, and divine." You have to repeat it so that you become what you are affirming. You are not the lower self, but the higher self. There is no way that you can truly be a sinful, clumsy, dark entity.
There is so much struggle, so much doubt, so much mind activity. You are fed up with yourself, but you want to ascend and become someone greater so that you can show the world that you are great. You ask for "divine" beings to help you ascend. You use visualizations to protect and clean yourself.
Then you realize something. Is everything that is heavenly the truth? Does God really exist? If we keep on telling ourselves to become one with God or that we really are one with God, then can't we just be? Wouldn't that show that we are one with God? Not only that, since you are one with God, why bother thinking about God? Thinking about God would make God exist separate from you. So you might try entering a blissful experience without the thought of God, and when it happens, it becomes more intense than it has ever been. Then you realize that the thought of God is just an illusion. There is no God. The bliss of unity is still there, stronger than ever.
Saying "that which above is that which is above" is useless. It sparks an image of the divine, and you apply it to yourself. If you use the affirmations, you wear the thought that you created, covering the awareness of who you are. If you really are divine, then you don't need to even think of divinity! You exist, there's no doubt about that! The only doubt is about who you are. Do not define yourself through images and thoughts! Then you will know who you are. Do not apply ideas like "you are a child of God" or "the Son of God" or "Christ" or "Atman"- leave it be. If you are using these ideas, you are running away from who you think you are.
You are misidentifying who you are with God. Expression of yourself is hindered by the thought that God exists or that angels exist or that anyone or anything exists other than you. It is all thoughts. You are lying to yourself twice - by believing that you are the lower self and by affirming that you are the higher self. Let it all go! Let it dissolve into the awareness of being. Misidentification has been supported by the ideas of religion, separating worldly and heavenly into two different things. Everyone is afraid to confront what is here instead of constantly making a false, illusory, weak "reality."
There is no God! There is no world! There is no thing!
We get a feeling that there's something we're missing. The world is dark and unforgiving. The only support we think we have comes from God, Christ Jesus, or some other "divine" being. So we reach out and try to contact the heavenly kingdom- we try to feel God. We let God embrace us in a sense, to the point that we are having a blissful experience. Yet inside of that, we think about God and how he is choosing to share this joyful moment with Him.
Then we feel completely sure that God exists. How could you experience bliss if he didn't exist, right? But we also get the feeling that God has control over us- he can choose what to do with us, he can take anything away from us, and he can leave us at anytime. Peace is not granted to us whenever we want. We realize that God can manipulate us.
Then we no longer experience bliss and power and peace and love. It is restricted. God chooses when you can experience Him. You are nothing without Him. You still call to the Masters and the Angels for guidance. They have power, so they can share it with you. But then we become dependent on them. You are a powerless, weak human, pleading for some guidance on how to become powerful.
You might use affirmations, saying "that which is above is that which is below," or "I am all powerful, perfect, heavenly, and divine." You have to repeat it so that you become what you are affirming. You are not the lower self, but the higher self. There is no way that you can truly be a sinful, clumsy, dark entity.
There is so much struggle, so much doubt, so much mind activity. You are fed up with yourself, but you want to ascend and become someone greater so that you can show the world that you are great. You ask for "divine" beings to help you ascend. You use visualizations to protect and clean yourself.
Then you realize something. Is everything that is heavenly the truth? Does God really exist? If we keep on telling ourselves to become one with God or that we really are one with God, then can't we just be? Wouldn't that show that we are one with God? Not only that, since you are one with God, why bother thinking about God? Thinking about God would make God exist separate from you. So you might try entering a blissful experience without the thought of God, and when it happens, it becomes more intense than it has ever been. Then you realize that the thought of God is just an illusion. There is no God. The bliss of unity is still there, stronger than ever.
Saying "that which above is that which is above" is useless. It sparks an image of the divine, and you apply it to yourself. If you use the affirmations, you wear the thought that you created, covering the awareness of who you are. If you really are divine, then you don't need to even think of divinity! You exist, there's no doubt about that! The only doubt is about who you are. Do not define yourself through images and thoughts! Then you will know who you are. Do not apply ideas like "you are a child of God" or "the Son of God" or "Christ" or "Atman"- leave it be. If you are using these ideas, you are running away from who you think you are.
You are misidentifying who you are with God. Expression of yourself is hindered by the thought that God exists or that angels exist or that anyone or anything exists other than you. It is all thoughts. You are lying to yourself twice - by believing that you are the lower self and by affirming that you are the higher self. Let it all go! Let it dissolve into the awareness of being. Misidentification has been supported by the ideas of religion, separating worldly and heavenly into two different things. Everyone is afraid to confront what is here instead of constantly making a false, illusory, weak "reality."
There is no God! There is no world! There is no thing!
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