Seduction of Spirit

Posted By on January 12, 2012

Most of us are so concerned with our bodies and our minds that we miss something very important which is our being. We identify with our bodies and minds, but where is the mind and body during sleep? During dreamless sleep there is neither consciousness of a self or of a world. There must be something that is responsible for continuity there, or else you may just blank out indefinitely. Some call it the soul. I prefer to just call it being or consciousness. Without it there can be no mind or body. The diagram would look like this:

being —->mind —-> body

Or if you want to bring feelings into it it would be:

being —-> feeling —-> mind —-> body

As you can see it goes from subtle to gross. The body is matter and therefor the grossest. The mind is connected to the brain which is physical, but thoughts are more subjective. Feelings on the other hand are totally subjective and differs from person to person. Being is the subtlest. It has no qualities of it’s own. It is the negation of all qualities. It is like a basket which contains everything you identify yourself with, but is not you. You may as well say it is nothing. It is that pure ‘I am’, without which no experience is possible. But being is not your true identity. We can now at something else to the diagram.

the absolute —-> being —-> feeling —-> mind —-> body

The absolute is your true identity. It is what makes everything possible. Without it there would be no you and no world. It is completely independent and beyond all opposites. It is beyond birth and death, being and non-being, consciousness and unconsciousness etc. How to find it? You cannot find it because you are already it. But you can realize it by denying everything that you are not. By contemplating the ‘I am’ you can go beyond the body and the mind. This is why I say pay attention to your being. Just stay in the ‘I am’ which is pure being.

The ‘I am’ is not the absolute but it is the bridge that will take you there. Just keep it in mind and reject all thoughts that come with it. Or make time every day to just be. We are so busy with the world that we hardly ever pay attention to ourselves. Without you there would be no world anyway. The ‘I am’ is the most basic thing about your world. Therefor to find out what you are in reality you have to start there. Is it possible that there is something that comes even before your own being? How did you come into being? Who are you really? You now know how to find out.

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Posted By on December 27, 2011

I tweeted the topic of my post on twitter the other day. It came up in my mind because it made a lot of sense to me, so I thought I’d do a post about it. In the world it helps to be arrogant. The high profile people and ‘successful’ people in the world are often very arrogant. They have a false sense of superiority that makes them feel superior to others. This is of course due to identification with the body. Had people known that they were not the body or the mind, but divinity itself, they would not be arrogant. Being arrogant would make no sense because all is yourself.

But in the material world being arrogant can get you far. When you are arrogant people kind of look up to you. They give you more respect. I used to employ this tactic of arrogance myself because it was easier to navigate your way through the world that way. When people think you are better than them then they try to please you more, so you get hassled by people less. But you only need this kind of ‘edge’ over others if you are caught up in desire and fear. Because you believe yourself to be a body trapped in time and space you fight for your own survival and try to get ahead.

You started a war with your environment the day you were born until the day you die. To exist is to be violent. To satisfy your desires and avoid your fears you have no other choice but to fight against your environment. But like I said this is all due to mistaken identity. The enlightened man doesn’t fear or desire because he knows himself as he is in reality – complete and perfect. Therefor there is no need for him to be arrogant or violent. The enlightened man doesn’t feel superior or inferior to anybody because he knows there is nobody else. He is both everyone and no one.

Therefor he is totally humble. He doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. He knows he is the Supreme Reality. He may be living on the street but it would make no difference whatsoever to him. Therefor it helps to stay humble when you want to find reality. If  you want to get far in the world of appearances then arrogance will indeed help you. But it will not help you to know yourself. You will go through endless cycles of desire and fear, forever thirsty. The only way to quench this endless thirst is to inquire into your true nature. Stay humble, stay quiet, stay detached. Just be.

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Posted By on December 26, 2011

It is Christmas and time for families and loved ones to get together. Personally I never had a loving and supportive family, and while that has made life extremely hard for me, it has also taught me some invaluable lessons. It has taught me to question things. For example, what is family? What is loved ones? What does it all mean? For the ‘normal’ person the answer is obvious. It is your mother, father, girlfriend, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, boyfriend, husband, wife, or whatever the case may be. But for the wise person this is far from the whole truth.

The wise person knows that these are mere attachments that comes with identifying yourself with a body and a mind. The knower of reality is beyond the body and mind. The body with all it’s attachments is a very small part of his reality indeed. The knower of reality identifies with impersonal existence, while the ignorant man identifies with personal existence. The knower of reality does not consider relatives family any more than he considers anyone else his family. There is nothing relative about the knower of reality. He is the whole as well as beyond the whole.

For anyone with sense this is the best way to be. When you consider the whole universe as your body you treat all living things with love. You are not selective. You don’t think in terms of personal gain, you think in terms of universal gain. The world is full of suffering and strife because of ignorance of reality. Had people known that all is one there would be no self concern and violence. This is why I don’t take Christmas all that seriously. There are people for whom Christmas is a nightmare because they are alone and without family or friends.

We as humans are shattered when a family member is in trouble, but when 16 000 children starve to death each day worldwide it doesn’t affect us in the least. And then we go and call ourselves compassionate and loving. If we were really compassionate and loving then everyone’s suffering and everyone’s joy would affect us in equal measure. This is not some new age theory. It should be obvious to anyone that treating all humans as your equal would drastically change our world. Yet we insist on dividing, opposing, selecting, and classifying. You have to start with yourself.

These concepts will all sound good in theory, but unless you have taken them to heart and realized your true nature, they won’t make much difference in your life and the lives of others. A knower of reality is an extremely valuable man. His mere existence does immense good to the world. And the only way you can help yourself and others is to go beyond the need for any further help. Then you can give from a bottomless well. But as long as you don’t know your true nature, you cannot truly help others. Therefor your most urgent task if you want to help yourself or the world is to inquire into your own nature.

All else is a waste of time.

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