| What is "changeless"? What could that possibly be but death, stagnation, nothing? If The Consciousness were truly changeless, it would not bother to create anything.
The survival mechanism of the brain, in need of security, seeks a changeless state. But that is impossible to achieve because a changeless state is death. The only changeless state is nonexistence.
Change is fearful, and so humans tend to resist it. The insecurity of human existence causes people to desire to latch onto something that is unchanging. The spiritual disciplines and systems which play into that insecurity simply prolong the agony and suffering of human existence.
Humans have a long history of not accepting the actuality of Life as it is, always trying to make it into something else. When you get down to it, you realize that the brain has certain tendencies that create "God." "God" is in the human brain. As humans cling to that concept, they have an escape hatch, a way of avoiding or resisting what-is.
The "God" concept is the belief that some "perfect" state is creating some imperfect state, which when you look at it is completely impossible, because that which is doing the creating must also have some bit of imperfection in it, otherwise it could not create something that is supposedly imperfect.
I feel that the whole of Life is perfect, and we are Life experiencing that.
I can understand that embracing the mystery, living in the unknown, can be very stressful to the brain. That is why the notion of"God" was created in the first place. "God" was created by the brain to relieve the stress, to help deal with the unknown, because the brain just could not function with the element of the unknown, with the thought, "Well, what might happen next? A rock might fall on me, and I would be dead." The brain has needed some assurance that says, "There is someone out there who is watching everything,and who will warn me if there is danger so that I can avoid it."
I see that the authority of the outside does nothing to serve humanity. Instead, it has created more separation, more suffering, more sorrow, more death, more chaos, more destruction. That is the very problem that humans face right now, because if "This changing What is "changeless"? What could that possibly be but death, stagnation, nothing? If The Consciousness were truly changeless, it would not bother to create anything.
The survival mechanism of the brain, in need of security, seeks a changeless state. But that is impossible to achieve because a changeless state is death. The only changeless state is nonexistence.
Change is fearful, and so humans tend to resist it. The insecurity of human existence causes people to desire to latch onto something that is unchanging. The spiritual disciplines and systems which play into that insecurity simply prolong the agony and suffering of human existence.
Humans have a long history of not accepting the actuality of Life as it is, always trying to make it into something else. When you get down to it, you realize that the brain has certain tendencies that create "God." "God" is in the human brain. As humans cling to that concept, they have an escape hatch, a way of avoiding or resisting what-is.
The "God" concept is the belief that some "perfect" state is creating some imperfect state, which when you look at it is completely impossible, because that which is doing the creating must also have some bit of imperfection in it, otherwise it could not create something that is supposedly imperfect.
I feel that the whole of Life is perfect, and we are Life experiencing that.
I can understand that embracing the mystery, living in the unknown, can be very stressful to the brain. That is why the notion of"God" was created in the first place. "God" was created by the brain to relieve the stress, to help deal with the unknown, because the brain just could not function with the element of the unknown, with the thought, "Well, what might happen next? A rock might fall on me, and I would be dead." The brain has needed some assurance that says, "There is someone out there who is watching everything,and who will warn me if there is danger so that I can avoid it."
I see that the authority of the outside does nothing to serve humanity. Instead, it has created more separation, more suffering, more sorrow, more death, more chaos, more destruction. That is the very problem that humans face right now, because if "This changing existence isn't it," then why bother with it? Why work with it, why try to make anything better? Why try to find better connections, if this isn't it? If this isn't it, then screw it; just leave it alone.
This withdrawal, this nonexistence is what so many spiritual disciplines seem to strive for. In that, humans are missing the real point of Life, the real point of Being. Life is here; this is The Consciousness happening, and it is in a hanging process throughout. Nothing remains the same; the whole universe is in constant change.
The traditional concept of "enlightenment" looks for an escape from Life, because Life is difficult. But the consequence of that kind of belief is that humans will not put everything they have into this existence; they will hold back, resist, attach. That very act of holding back is obstructing the possibilities for great discoveries here. As humans change, they are evolving, at a cellular level, into a fundamentally new species. This evolution cannot come to fruition if humans hold onto such an escape.
Humanity is like a man who lives in dire poverty, unaware that he has a billion dollars in a bank account somewhere. He has never been told he has the bank account; he doesn't know it exists. He thinks that he is doomed to misery, and so he spends his days waiting for his life to come to an end. Humanity is holding itself back from the possibilities of Life because of the belief, "This isn't it; instead, the changeless is it." The greatest mystery is right under humans' noses, and they avoid it.They are afraid of it.
There is a way to be in this world in which you are embracing Is-ness, Life as it is, without resistance or attachment, but also keeping an openness to what Life might bring forth. Life is miraculous. Life is always bringing forth the novel, the unexpected. If you live your Life resisting that, you are missing Life, you are escaping.
My teaching is about embracing Life as it is, dealing with the nuts and bolts, the ups and downs, all of it, because the human has the capacity to do that. That is why you have this brain. This brain is developing to deal with the stress, to deal with the unknown, to deal with the mystery. And you keep running from it,keep looking for a mystery "out there," thinking that's important, when Life, what is happening here, is the greatest mystery.
As long as you have that escape mechanism running, you will keep searching, you will keep looking, running here and there, finding somebody else who says something that provides a little better escape,a little more comfort. At some point you crash, you wake up, you say, "Wait a minute, what I've been looking for, I have been all
along."
To awaken to what is here, now, as The Consciousness, as Life, is the most important thing that can happen to an individual. Each individual expression of Life has as its sole purpose to discover through experience, through connection, through awareness, a greater possibility for Life.
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