Finding what is true involves also discovering what is not true. In fact, it is easier to realize what is true when you have realized what is false.
Everything your mind creates is not real. Lower life forms do not impose their ideas on reality, they live in accordance with it. They live in the present moment, and react to stimulus when it is in the present with them. Plants photosynthesize when the sun is out, animals react to their predators etc. Plants and animals follow a pattern of reactions nature has programmed into them. Humans are different because we have evolved to have minds in order to better control our environment. Our minds are able to think about the past and our future and make decisions.
The problem is not that we have a mind that is able to react to things that are not immediately present, but that we do not recognize that the things are not immediately present. We do not recognize what the present moment is. We think we are our minds, we think we are what we think about our past and future. As living beings, we identify with our thoughts and become complicated. But our mind is just a tool that helps us to think abstractly about our environment, in order to gain better control of it. We have gained control of our environment and created civilization, not it is time to gain control over our inner environment. We have homes that give us shelter; now we must recognize our spirit is our true and infinite home, and the ultimate shelter. Jesus said "I am the bed; the person who lies on me will enter perpetual rest. I am the Light; the person who sees by me will view all things."
Ultimately, we are just a consciousness that has no control. It is just part of the mystery of life. Our bodies just support our consciousness and it helps our brains to make sense of life. Right now we are using it to create false identities for ourselves, but they are impermanent. Nonetheless people hold onto this falsehood, and this causes many problems in the world. The truth is that we are just pure consciousness, living in an impermanent body. We all share the body of the infinite universe.
The trick is to get mind and spirit to become one thing, on being, and it may be the effects of other animal minds in this realm will make that impossible even when we are alone. If this is true we will have to get everyone to evolve for us to evole completely, which may be impossible, so the best we probably can do is be with other honest truth seekers and spreaders and just do the best we can.
ReplyDeleteTiger walking in nature used to help me to feel this connectedness to all things. I believe it is a taoist type of walk, and I would do it in the dawn, just before the sun would come up. It is a toe heel step, rather than a heel toe, as we usually walk. It somehow centers the subconscious mind, and brings one into this connectedness of all things. It certainly helped me to feel it years ago, more than anything else ever has.
DeleteInteresting , where did you get your title "That Whis Is" ?
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