Forgetfulness, Abuse and Freedom

We all desire happiness. The problem is we have forgotten the path to real happiness. With so many issues confronting us daily, we must be more attentive than ever. It helps tremendously to purify our thoughts and not bother with vain and nonsense things. We all have a space in the universe. For many, it feels it has been lost and the desire is to find it. Some souls gave up when they were children and decided that they really didn't want to be here. Other people feel like aliens. In my opinion, those of us who are actively living from the impulses of the inner Nature are the real aliens. People for the most part have life all wrong. Many accept abuse as a normal state of affairs. Abuse in this instance includes how we are continually duped by the government, the educational system, the church, man made laws, parental ignorance and much more. Century after century various systems have come and gone, one after another, but all with a single goal...transform us into a soulless slave. This probably sounds harsh but if you are not a deep thinker and question life, it is very easy to become robotic. Often times, parents programming and belief systems are part of the problem. We must think for ourselves and look closely at how we have been conditioned.

We must free our souls from aggression, selfishness, fear and many other dark feelings. When we are free from aforementioned, we are capable of goodness, happiness, balance and fulfillment. We need to create a space of love that I have previously suggested. We need to embrace our inner reality, embrace the whole earth and Her life forms. The larger part of which we are, spirit, is capable of embracing the whole earth. We embrace the earth with our invisible self!

Become aware of your inner nature, the collective memory, respect it, work with it, heal it and cherish it. Act in accord with the limitless spirit, the essence of who you are. Have you ever felt your spirit? There is a magnificent light emanating from us, it is grace and hope and many other godlike attributes. Be conscious of your spiritual light and emit it. Imagine how different our lives would have been if our parents thought of the soul coming into their newborn as a Buddha or a Christ!
To feel this truth, it must be felt with the heart because the heart is capable of understanding it.

The Elements of Man

In the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism it is said that the elements, which make up man, produce a capacity for pain. The cause of pain is our craving for individual life. You are probably wondering what desiring individuality has to do with causing pain. What the Buddha is referring to is the result stemming from the soul's separation from its Source. The Infinite and Supreme Source is perfection and unity. When a soul strays from the center point, the Source of Life, he begins to diminish his balance and light. Looking at the ailments of mankind from this perspective, the cravings of individual existence and forgetting our origin is actually the fall in consciousness that scriptures describe. The greater the intensity to do things that stem from selfishness, the greater the biological fall.

People forget to make room within themselves for the Divine Reality. Desire and cravings frequently surpass those of any animal. Looking at who we really are and our higher purpose, a new understanding will make sense regarding degenerative diseases. It becomes obvious that the majority of civilized human beings do not live in harmony with Divine Nature. When we separate ourselves from the Source, we experience disastrous consequences for the most part. God is the Great Physician. The keener our awareness of this fact, the more rapidly the body will mend itself. Does the Divine become sick? No. Our Source is the fountain of life, health and joy.

We require faith, certain disciplines and changes in habit to create a transformation in emotional and physical health that is permanent. It is true that the wide variety of tools and practices today will give us relief but a requirement of wholeness is to change and lift our consciosness. If you become disappointed because you do not heal immediately, it could mean that more is expected from you. Healing is a partnership. You probably do not like the word test. Sometimes, healing requires more patience, trust and lifting our mind out of the muck and mire of robotic thinking to make the desired change. Even if the illness is the effect of a long ago cause, it can be healed if you evolve and believe. A new virtue may be required of you. Emotional problems with all there aspects need to be removed. Guilt hidden in the subconscious part of the mind brings resistance. I have worked with people who are healed of very serious disorders. When they start feeling guilty about their past or even present behavior, the healing can leave them.

Have a wonderful weekend!

The New Man

The scriptures say of human beings that there is an outward man and along with him an inner man. Within us all is the other person, the inner man, whom the Scripture calls the new man, the heavenly man, the young person, the friend, the aristocrat. The seed of God is in us. To quote from Eckhart you will read that the seed of God is in us. "Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God."

Human beings have free will and we are at liberty to identify with whatever pleases us. This amazing ability to choose our interests creates who we believe we are. The average person may act one way all their life but when a serious illness personally happens to him, he behaves very different. He could have lived a life of fear and then when he realizes he is dying become serene and God centered. For some people, it is easier to behave selflessly in a time of crisis that when life appears normal. The difference between a saint for instance and a typical human is that the saint is one who knows that very moment of our human life is a moment of crisis.

Now, why would that be? It has to do with personal choice. Every day challenges or opportunities present themselves to us. How we respond determines whether we are moving closer to darkness, which is ignorance or opening to radiant light and life. The goal of human life is to finally arrive at a state of consciousness where there are no longer any God-eclipsing obstacles between what we think and believe we are and the Divine Reality. The aim is to be constantly and consciously aware of our spiritual identity and purpose as a lover of God regardless of what is going on around us or directed at us. To understand the words I write and live them is a form of spiritual training that eventually leads us to transcend the human personality and state of ourselves that we are not a man or woman and answer instead, we are a Buddha, Christ or whatever exalted title you prefer to use to describe your state of being as an awakened and new man. This may sound preposterous to some who read this. Get used to it. It is truth.