Are We Truth?
Posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009
by e
Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation
Over 4,000 different belief systems exist in the world, each with its proponents understandably claiming that people of faiths other than theirs are doomed. This is to be expected; otherwise, advocates would not feel secure within their beliefs. This means that the other three thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine beliefs must be wrong!
When we spread our beliefs by twisting arms, this is called proselytizing - a fancy name for aggressively forcing our views on people who have not expressed an interest. Writing a book or article is one thing; people can read them or not, but when we meet up with someone at Wal-Mart and the second or third thing out of our mouth is, "Do you meditate?" Or, "Are you saved?" That is proselytizing! Nothing more than attacking them with aggressive salesmanship and having nothing to do with respect or compassion for the other person but everything to do with control and power. The proselytizer will try to win at all costs. How many people do you know that were pretty nice folks before they found religion!
Once we crystallize our opinions about what we believe and whether our particular God can beat up someone else's God, then all inquiry stops and sectarian strife begins . . .and our wisdom eye closes.
Is there another way to live, which is to live together in harmony? Yes, but this way requires acceptance and surrender to the fact that not everybody will believe as we do, yet they will still get their ticket to heaven. And that's about as hard to swallow as a hot coal for some.
Even if we think that we have found our truth, many subconsciously continue to search inwardly or outwardly for Truth, or God, or call it what you may because we intuitively know that we cannot prove beyond a doubt what we have come to believe. But usually, we do believe that we are not ultimate truth, because we are not lasting. We might be part of Ultimate Truth, or it might be a part of us, but our bodies change, grow old and die, where Ultimate Truth surely doesn't. Ultimate Truth, by definition, is unchanging, eternal, and unconditioned with no beginning and no end.
And we, alas, are merely a result of conditions. Something had to happen for us to happen; a sperm and an egg, previous life karma, a preexisting soul, whatever. We are the result of something.
Yet Ultimate Truth is not. It had no beginning, no ending, and was not conditioned because there were no conditions present to make Truth happen. It simply always was and always will be.
Since we are a result of conditions, unlike our "Truth" that is not a result of previous conditions, we are, by nature, vacillating and changeable. We are scattered about, here and there, and far from that oneness of our Truth. Because we are not integrated as our Truth is, we cannot control the changes that endlessly occur, and consequently find ourselves trapped in that nasty middle management dilemma of having crushing perceived responsibility with no authority! This is a certain recipe for stress, and stress is a fact of life that can't be denied if we are truthful about our conditioned life experience.
If we did have a real "self," wouldn't that self have some power over the changing landscape of our bodies and minds? The fact is; there is no self in control of anything. We just think there is. There is no self other than the one we create in our minds. So how could such a creation of a false "self" have any chance to relate to that great Ultimate Truth we aspire to? Our "self" is a result of conditions; we have created it in our minds and therefore it is causal, conditioned, human, and not divine at all.
It is only when we are able to see and understand this "self," and recognize that it is not substantial and not worth our undying love attention, that we can shift focus and really connect with that something greater. But it's not the "self" that connects with Truth, or the "self" that has a relationship with Truth; it is Truth emerging in the absence of "self."
In other words, we really are this Ultimate Truth we chase after. Isn't it ironic that this ineffable Truth has always been right here, within us, and all we had to do was get our self out of the way in order to see it!
When we finally do see through this illusion of "self" and realize the attachment we have formed toward it, then our other attachments, all of them, even those connected to our views and opinions, are gladly sacrificed in deference to that higher power, that liberating Truth.
As a matter of fact, we even give up our attachment to the one who is realizing all of this (our selves) and our prayers change from, "Dear God, help my sister get pregnant, help my husband find a job, keep me healthy, and help me win the lottery," to . . . silence.
A silent mind that Ultimate Truth can finally approach.
Then we can experience authentic peace, a breath of fresh air, a tremendous relief. We have nothing left to lose at this point with only the delights of life to engage us, without the dreadful perceived burden of taking ownership and protecting them. Our opinions and beliefs become just conventional opinions and beliefs, nothing but changing recycled thoughts and not ideals to be defended to the death.
We are no longer attached, no longer grasping and clinging, and as a result, life is immensely more mature and joyful now, expanded and open in so many astonishing ways.
At this new level of consciousness, we can see that causal things such as our bodies and minds simply act in certain ways, and we can now understand and accept that. There is nobody getting anywhere; we are already there. And the Truth is not to be attained; it is already here as well. It is only the noises in our heads that keeps our realizing it at bay.
This point in our lives where we recognize in our hearts that much of our stress is caused by things shifting about randomly, and uncontrolled by any underlying self, is the exact point where we approach an altered consciousness. This is where we are truly saved; saved from ourselves.
Only a handful of these kinds of people who become saved from themselves is required to change the world, but don't worry about that now. You have a tremendous opportunity ahead of you to change just yourself.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)e, this article held my attention all the way through. I believe it is one of your best, good job.
One answer to your question is that under regressive hypnosis almost everyone reverts back to other identities who lived at other times(verifiable by church records and cemetery records) but yet maintained the same predilections and personality,the uneraseable soul essence;does that help?
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