“Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life Imagine a ray of sunlight, that has forgotten it is an inseparable part of the Sun, and deludes its self into believing it has to fight for survival, and create and cling to an identity, other than the Sun. Would the death if this illusion not be incredibly liberating? -E.Tolle So you see, when you ask How to I obtain the knowledge of God, how do I obtain the knowledge of liberation? all I can say is its the wrong question. Why do you want to obtain it? Because the very fact that youre wanting to obtain it is the only thing that prevents you from getting there. You already have it. But of course, its up to you. Its your privilege to pretend that you dont. Thats your game; thats your life game; thats what makes you think your an ego. And when you want to wake up, you will, just like that. If youre not awake, it shows you dont want to. Youre still playing the hide part of the game. Youre still, as it were, the self pretending its not the self. And thats what you want to do. So you see, in that way, too, youre already there. So when you understand this, a funny thing happens, and some people misinterpret it. Youll discover as this happens that the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior disappears. You will realize that what you describe as things under your own will feel exactly the same as things going on outside you. You watch other people moving, and you know youre doing that, just like youre breathing or circulating your blood. And if you dont understand whats going on, youre liable to get crazy at this point, and to feel that you are god in the Jehovah sense. To say that you actually have power over other people, so that you can alter what youre doing. And that youre omnipotent in a very crude, literal kind of bible sense. You see? A lot of people feel that and they go crazy. They put them away. They think theyre Jesus Christ and that everybody ought to fall down and worship them. Thats only they got their wires crossed. This experience happened to them, but they dont know how to interpret it. So be careful of that. Jung calls it inflation. People who get the Holy Man syndrome, that I suddenly discover that I am the lord and that I am above good and evil and so on, and therefore I start giving myself airs and graces. But the point is, everybody else is, too. If you discover that you are that, then you ought to know that everybody else is. My problem as a writer, using words, is to dispel the illusions of language while employing one of the languages that generates them. -Alan Watts
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:43:27 +0000
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