Written by Mathew Naismith
This post is a follow on from my last post,
Pleasure Centres of the Mind. If your ego didn't like the last post, it is
unlikely the ego will like this post. Put simply, the ego doesn't like anything
that doesn't' excite the pleasure centre within a reality based on pleasures.
Let's be honest with ourselves here, everything, including spirituality these
days, is based on positive vibrations as opposed to negative vibrations, in
other words what pleases the senses is positive, what doesn't is negative.
This is too obvious for people like me. I
have become involved in numerous spiritual based forums in the last 8 (eight)
years, too often has spirituality been based purely on what pleases the pleasure
centre of the mind, the ego. This of course takes one to ignore and even
denounce anything that vaguely threatens what pleases the pleasure centre of
the mind. Most of the forums I have been involved in have either removed me from
the forum or I removed myself from the forum. When you realise you are
upsetting people's ego to no end, there is no point in continuing being
involved.
Once our pleasure senses have been
tantalised, anything that vaguely threatens this pleasure is denounced or
ostracised. What seemed to have occurred is that spirituality is purely based
on fear, while at the same time denouncing religion for being based on fear.
This has been proven to me over and over again on most of these forums; people
literally show fear of their own pleasures being threatened in any sense simply
through their own actions. I should also point out I am still involved in
certain forums/groups to one degree or another, probably because the people on
these forums don't seem to see people like me as a threat.
Are
people like me a threat to the control the ego has over other people?
Yes, to the ego, people like me seem to be
a threat to it's existence, the truth is, people like me are only a threat to
the control the ego has over people, not to the ego own existence. In
actuality, only the ego can experience a sensation of being threatened, people
like me are not even a threat to the control the ego has over other people, for
only the ego can experience threatening sensations. What I am saying is, only
can the ego become a threat to itself, this simply occurs when the ego awakes
to itself for only the ego can control ego. People like me are not about
control but the ego will perceive that we are, especially when the pleasure
centre is threatened in any sense.
I have found it quite amusing over my time
on these forums, I have also found it saddening that once again so many people
are using spirituality to obtain and maintain a certain level of pleasure. This
of course takes one to become deliberately unaware of anything that threatens these
pleasurable experiences. Firstly, where is the oneness in this and secondly, it
is obvious that such blatant ignorance will not lead to a state of pure
awareness, pure bliss.
Bliss is not obtained through
insurmountable conditions; bliss can only be obtained through putting no
conditions on anything and become all of what is.
As I have personally experienced on most
forums, you are not allowed to express anything that seems to threaten the
control the ego has over the pleasure centre in any sense. So many people are
putting more conditions on themselves and others, not less, to protect the
control of the ego has over the pleasure centre of the mind. What do these
insurmountable conditions denote? Limitations, this simply means we are
limiting ourselves more, not less. I suppose this figures as more people these
days seem to desire to be more control. How many conditions are there for
someone to be in control? The more control we desire, the more conditions there
are, of course the more control we experience or desire, the more conditions
(limitations) we put on upon ourselves and others around us.
I will put it this way by using our present
environment. A lot of people want to limit themselves to the light, of course
this takes a lot of conditions (limitations) to obtain this in the first place.
Would the Earth be as beautiful as it was if there wasn't a balance, a
moderation, of light and dark? Now imagine the light controlling the dark
through it's own conditions, it's own limitations, how beautiful would have the
Earth been then? How beautiful is the universe with it's insurmountable
contrasts of light and dark?
The light tantalises our pleasure centre
when the dark threatens our pleasure centre, but what would the light create
void of the dark, the yin void of the yang? The Earth as it was simply couldn't
have existed under such conditions, such limitations, and what a shame that
would have been for the ego not to have experienced!!
