vicente
24th November 2003, 04:34 AM
Yes, I understand and even sympathize with most, that "their" reality is not "covered" at all,...however the following is intended for those who have pondered the possibility that we may be as if asleep, and reality, although fully present, is so obscured by beliefs, conditions, individuality, etc., that it simply is not seen.
Contrary to the views of most religious beliefs, Source, the Causeless fulcrum from which nature effects its motion, what many call 'god', is not in all things,...all things rest upon Source. When this is understood, the concept of god, the idea which has produced more strife, conflict and suffering than any other, dissolves. Even the construct of a 'transcendental god' is realized for the oxymoron it is,...which is to say, that what is transcendental, such as Source, could not possibly be of creation or a creator. There cannot be conditions within the Unconditional.
An often asked question (perhaps not so much here) is how can we wake up. Fortunately, many E'Beings (Siddhartha, Tilopa, Naropa, etc) have left that answer, and always the same answer,...which is, when we let go of positive and negative, of good and bad, of useless happiness and useless suffering. In other words, when we move to the middle of duality's seesaw, thus Stilling ourselfs over the fulcrum of Source.
From my observations, neither negative, nor positive emotions are natural, which is to say, they do not exist at the point of the fulcrum. True Emotion is not a generated behavior arising through conditioned, belief driven reflex response-reactions. Real Emotion, from the point of view of Source, is neither positive nor negative,...it, like Real Love, has no opposite. Of course, The Collective considers, and even cherishes, many of these mechanical responses, both positive and negative, as expressions of proper humanness.
If this sounds confusing, that is, what's the difference between a Real and "belief-driven" emotion, simply follow the emotion back to its origin. If it originated from the physical body, its physical. If it originated from the mental body, its mental. Both positive and negative physical/mental emotions arise from beliefs, conditions, individual judgement, etc., such as anger, jealousy, envy, devotion, diversion of useless happiness, and are fed and sustained by these expressions.
Source is not nature, but Source has dominion over nature, which is why E'Beings have been said to seemingly possess superpowers, like Tilopa transmutating bones into a flying fish, or persons like Apollonious who have raised the dead and healing the sick. Such dominion over nature, as in the 30's film 'The Man who could perform Miracles', based on a HG Wells book, who commanded bullets to stop before him, is accessible to everyone. It merely takes our relocation to the middle of the seesaw. The catch is, we cannot realize the middle, the balance in life, until we let go of the beliefs we cling to for our identity.
Vicente
:)
Contrary to the views of most religious beliefs, Source, the Causeless fulcrum from which nature effects its motion, what many call 'god', is not in all things,...all things rest upon Source. When this is understood, the concept of god, the idea which has produced more strife, conflict and suffering than any other, dissolves. Even the construct of a 'transcendental god' is realized for the oxymoron it is,...which is to say, that what is transcendental, such as Source, could not possibly be of creation or a creator. There cannot be conditions within the Unconditional.
An often asked question (perhaps not so much here) is how can we wake up. Fortunately, many E'Beings (Siddhartha, Tilopa, Naropa, etc) have left that answer, and always the same answer,...which is, when we let go of positive and negative, of good and bad, of useless happiness and useless suffering. In other words, when we move to the middle of duality's seesaw, thus Stilling ourselfs over the fulcrum of Source.
From my observations, neither negative, nor positive emotions are natural, which is to say, they do not exist at the point of the fulcrum. True Emotion is not a generated behavior arising through conditioned, belief driven reflex response-reactions. Real Emotion, from the point of view of Source, is neither positive nor negative,...it, like Real Love, has no opposite. Of course, The Collective considers, and even cherishes, many of these mechanical responses, both positive and negative, as expressions of proper humanness.
If this sounds confusing, that is, what's the difference between a Real and "belief-driven" emotion, simply follow the emotion back to its origin. If it originated from the physical body, its physical. If it originated from the mental body, its mental. Both positive and negative physical/mental emotions arise from beliefs, conditions, individual judgement, etc., such as anger, jealousy, envy, devotion, diversion of useless happiness, and are fed and sustained by these expressions.
Source is not nature, but Source has dominion over nature, which is why E'Beings have been said to seemingly possess superpowers, like Tilopa transmutating bones into a flying fish, or persons like Apollonious who have raised the dead and healing the sick. Such dominion over nature, as in the 30's film 'The Man who could perform Miracles', based on a HG Wells book, who commanded bullets to stop before him, is accessible to everyone. It merely takes our relocation to the middle of the seesaw. The catch is, we cannot realize the middle, the balance in life, until we let go of the beliefs we cling to for our identity.
Vicente
:)