I feel everyone who comes into my life (in any capacity, be it physically or electronically!) does so for a reason or at least I can make a reason out of it.
That would be a good way to look at things. What reason do you give to this?
But we do have to understand we will never find definite answers - ie those which can categorically be said to be the complete 'Truth". For now we only have the language of the 'shadows'.
Never is a long time. There are natural laws which support the manifest Universe and that which supports those natural laws. It is not impossible to know these things, it just becomes a stretch to the intellect that tries to imagine an end or finality to the creation and experience of the Universe. Cause and effect is simple enough to understand, but even easier if one has an experience of the Supreme in its Being or the "Supreme Being."
The following was widely distributed for a while with a note at the end saying the student was Albert Einstein, but there is no real validity to that claim in my understanding.
Did God create everything that exists?
The university professor challenged his students with this question.
"Did God create everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil".
The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor, quite Pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"
Of course", replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to The laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460° F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist.
We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not Exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a
certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
The words that I remember from my childhood still are true.
That there's none so blind as those that will not see and those who lack the courage and say its dangerous to try.
Well they just don't know that love eternal will not be denied-Justin Hayward-(The Moody Blues)
The Truth needs no defense. If anyone remembers that there is Eternal Truth or not is irrelevant; fortunately, truth is not democratic.
Once, everyone was convinced that the earth was flat and the sun rotated around it, but no change in the orbit of our daystar ever occurred because of mankind's beliefs. Nor did our spherical globe contract to a plane to align with ignorant humans.
Similarly, for more that two thousand years, most of our race have believed that the Absolute "
One" (Truth) was a myth or inaccessible to all but a fortunate few who were reclusive monks or nuns or somehow different or special - those who have renounced everything of the world in order to devote their entire lives to the realization of the Eternal Truth.
In the absence of knowledge of the effortless path of growth of consciousness, any strange belief about the difficulty of growth of consciousness has been taken for the truth. But the Truth has never changed. It has remained crystalline, pure, forever isolated from the strange mutations of space and time, patiently waiting for the forgetful children to remember. And as soon as even one remembers, the Truth is there, Wholly and completely, in all its radiant Glory, for the Truth also permeates every particle of the created worlds, the Truth is everywhere, always.
The Self Aware have undying Love for humanity. Like good parents, they save the best presents for those that are ready to accept it.
Our race has matured greatly in the last five thousand years. This is not to say there is not still a great deal of work to do; there obviously is. This is not to say that we have yet healed the Earth's problems, created by human ignorance and greed; we obviously have a long war ahead.
But the fact is that more and more people today are dedicating themselves to love and the healing of humanity; once a certain threshold is passed, once there are sufficient members of fully enlightened people walking the Earth, the entire planet and the entire human race are going to experience a phase transition of consciousness. ( some call it the Singularity others call it the Rapture)
Those who wish to continue to destroy will no longer be able to do so; those who wish to create in expanding immortality will receive unlimited support from the infinite One. Every desire of theirs will be fulfilled, from the slightest to the greatest.
Those who have learned to align their hearts with one-pointed faith will find that there are no limits to their eager, numinous minds. There are no restrictions of time or space that do not bow to the will of the fully realized human.
Like good parents the Masters of Knowledge in Truth have always saved the highest teachings for a moment in the evolution of the Human race where Man comes of age to see beyond the limits of his material world and his beliefs in the limits of physical existence, to discover the Universal mind and its order in all things.
The pathway to culturing Eternal Freedom in every moment of Now is not difficult or hard to follow. Indeed, it is present everywhere at each and every moment of created time. Built into the fabric of Creation are certain ascending pathways; these 108 primary channels are found throughout the structure of all of existence, inside every cell, inside every nervous system, throughout every planet, every sun, every galaxy, every particle from the smallest to the largest of Creation.
These 108 channels lead one directly to the experience of the Absolute (Truth); when one has opened ones heart to innocence and ones mind to one-pointedness, the infinite light of the One floods through the human soul, bringing completion to the otherwise endless dance of the Ego, bringing fulfillment to every Human's age old quest for perfection. The dawn of complete enlightenment is inevitable once one innocently treads down even a single ascending pathway.
Once one has discovered the road to Truth and is systematically opening to the 108 passageways, there are certain additional processes which can accelerate growth. There are certain foods that assist Enlightenment, there are others that hinder it; there are certain behavior patterns that further growth, and there are others that retard it; there are certain exercises that speed development of consciousness, there are others that slow it down.
The fundamental principal is this: the earth is not world of unlimited choices.
Rather the earth
is a world of unlimited choices, but not all choices available lead to enlightenment or the Truth.
In fact, reviewing the rather pathetic condition of modern humanity, we have to conclude that most choices lead to suffering and death.
If someone wishes, therefore, to think,
It matters not what I do; I can do anything I please, this of course is that someone's choice. But if the end result of such thinking is sickness and death, that is precisely the philosophy that has killed every one of our ancestors; do you really want it to be yours?
The wisdom of Truth offers another way. Adopt a useful series of boundaries to gain unbounded freedom.
This might sound contradictory: How can boundaries lead to the Unbounded? Even a moments reflection reveals that there is no other way. Perfect invincibility is born from perfect harmlessness. Invulnerability comes from mastering the art of non-violence.
That this flies in the face of traditional thinking and belief is a good sign of the Truth of these words. Rather, it
can be such a sign, if one has the necessary humility to analyze honestly the nature of Creation. With perfect fluidity of Grace and utter economy of effort, the Universe continues along the path of least resistance.
Water is ultimately soft, and yet its persistence wears away mountains.
There are no limits to the expanding glory of the human mind, but the way to attain this Reality is through adopting a useful series of limitations, to culture life to realize the Eternal Freedom of perfect Union with the
will or Nature of the Absolute or of "God" as it is often called.
What must one give up to realize Truth? Absolutely nothing. What must one be
willing to give up to realize Truth?
Absolutely
everything.
It is the attachments that cripple the growth of consciousness. Where your treasure lies, there will be your heart also.
If you are more attached to your home or your family or your job or your status than to the Truth, you will have your home and your family and your job and your status until death comes knocking on your door and you will not have the Truth.
If, on the other hand, you seek first the Truth, you will have your home and your family and your job and your status, but you will have them all fully for the first time in your life. Instead of a life of compromise, you will have a life dedicated to the healing of humanity -- which is always and forever based in the healing of your own soul.
Those who wish to oppose you in this transformation -- and for the present, at least, we have to assume that there will be those that try to oppose you -- will find that their words and actions have less and less of an impact on you as you become more and more filled with the pure joy of alignment with the Truth.
The experience of Truth is that as one becomes more successful, as one who realizes within themelves the truth and directly impacts more people to align with their true hearts desire to realize the Eternal Absolute One (Truth), the violence of the frustrated ego in others that do not so desire to structure full enlightenment screams more loudly.
The absurd and bizarre stories about this way of approach increase in volume and ferocity as those accomplish this within themselves and alternately approach the task to heal the Earth. This is predictable and understandable; if it is inevitable that it continues indefinitely or not remains to be seen. One continues, one-pointedly, marching to the goal; those who wish to join in the noblest of tasks will do so with joy and harmony; those that do not will go their own way, cursing the others perhaps as they walk out the door.
How can one dare to offer to help someone break attachments and be free? How dare someone offer an alternative to a painful and short life by offering one something counter to one own personal opinions and ones own beliefs!
A statistic from an MD, a Dr, Joel Wallach: the average life expectancy of an MD in the U.S. is
58 years.
The ego worships allopathic medicine as God. This is true because modern medicine will kill you if you practice it religiously.
Belief in sickness is hypnotic and modern medicine advertises prevention against everything that there is to worry about. If you did not worry so and were more attuned to the natural flow of innocent behavior where there was no stress to the mind and body, you would be much healthier and live much longer than if you put stress into both the body and the mind.
The Ego fears and hates Truth because it will kill the identification and attachments to personal opinion and the needs of the Ego if you immerse yourself in it. Truth will dissolve the Stresses of fear and belief that constrict and invade the human nervous system.There is no reason you must live in a world of theory and disclaimers afraid of impending threat, hiding behind laws and governments that create threat and then limit your freedoms to protect you from those threats. These things are all created from being separate from Truth.
Life is supremely simple, but we tend to make it complicated. A life of compromise leads to death, quickly, painfully.
A life dedicated to Truth leads to Eternal Freedom.
