05-05-2015, 11:23 PM
I think enlightenment is letting go of the tenacious hold we have on the ego.
The ego is line in the sand between Who You Are, and Where You Are. When that bubble is popped, the line between subject/object or mind/matter collapses and we consciously become what we have been since before time: All That Is. In that moment, which lasts forever, you will come to realize your center is everywhere, and your circumference is nowhere.
All the moral practices of every religion can be essentially boiled down to: those actions or behaviors that seem to be most consonant or congruent with unity. That is what love is: Unity. You treat others how you would like to be treated, because what you do to others, you do to your higher and more encompassing sense of self, which contains all consciousness. This is the golden rule.
All the practices down through the ages have been to find the touchstone between and among all forms. Compassion is the key because true empathy cannot occur without finding the sympathetic resonance between that which seems to many, but in reality, is One.
The price of the infinite is the finite. The final sacrifice is the little self, in exchange for the Big Self. This is the archetypal meaning of Christ being crucified for the sins of the world. It is a metaphorical action in consciousness where you forgive the sins of the world, and are sacrificed, symbolically, by becoming so purely absorbed in service to others, that attention to the little self is transcended, and are then, in turn, resurrected purified of all distortions to rise to Heaven, which is oneness with the Father, or what we might more intelligibly understand as Intelligent Infinity.
You forgive your brothers and sisters for what they appear to do to you, and you yourself are absolved of the things you have appeared to do to them. This negates the illusory separation between all forms. What you do for others, is reflected back into the self.
In a universe of unending unity, how could it be any other way?
The ego is line in the sand between Who You Are, and Where You Are. When that bubble is popped, the line between subject/object or mind/matter collapses and we consciously become what we have been since before time: All That Is. In that moment, which lasts forever, you will come to realize your center is everywhere, and your circumference is nowhere.
All the moral practices of every religion can be essentially boiled down to: those actions or behaviors that seem to be most consonant or congruent with unity. That is what love is: Unity. You treat others how you would like to be treated, because what you do to others, you do to your higher and more encompassing sense of self, which contains all consciousness. This is the golden rule.
All the practices down through the ages have been to find the touchstone between and among all forms. Compassion is the key because true empathy cannot occur without finding the sympathetic resonance between that which seems to many, but in reality, is One.
The price of the infinite is the finite. The final sacrifice is the little self, in exchange for the Big Self. This is the archetypal meaning of Christ being crucified for the sins of the world. It is a metaphorical action in consciousness where you forgive the sins of the world, and are sacrificed, symbolically, by becoming so purely absorbed in service to others, that attention to the little self is transcended, and are then, in turn, resurrected purified of all distortions to rise to Heaven, which is oneness with the Father, or what we might more intelligibly understand as Intelligent Infinity.
You forgive your brothers and sisters for what they appear to do to you, and you yourself are absolved of the things you have appeared to do to them. This negates the illusory separation between all forms. What you do for others, is reflected back into the self.
In a universe of unending unity, how could it be any other way?
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