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.

Presence

I recently had a realization of how to enter and maintain a blissful awareness. When I first experienced bliss for the first time more than half a year ago, I tried to hold onto it and make it increase. I wanted more of it. But whenever I thought about it increasing, it would either stop where it is or creep slowly away. However, I now know that this is anticipation, which is also separation, so it must be an illusion. It will only amplify if you are stay with full awareness in the present moment.

It's so simple! Any effort to control it or keep it or initiate it will do nothing. It is so simple that we overlook it, which is why we continually suffer. All you have to do is be, without thinking about anything (because any that really had no absolute importance). All of your worries cover up who we are, which is this perfect awareness as bliss itself. We do not need to fight and attain anything- who we are is guaranteed to be everything we would ever want or need. The mind's attempt to create something wonderful and beautiful will never surpass the brilliance of our self.

If I try to think back on a blissful experience, I can't remember what it feels like. Imagination flat out sucks. Imagination is also of separation, because it tries to remember the past or make something new from it as a future idea. Whenever you're imagining something, you're never in the present moment.

Whatever is not present is a lie. If you sense something in the present and you think about it, it is a lie. Only the presence that cannot be thought about is true. It is just empty fullness. And within that presence, nothing can be unpleasant because none of it is a lie. All pain and distractions fall away in this presence, unless they are thought about.

So "how" you become present is this. Feel what is here now, but don't think about it. Just experience whatever is happening in this moment. As long as you stay here, bliss will intensify and amplify. But don't jump ahead of it by thinking about where it could lead! Just stay here and accept this moment with presence and awareness.