All my previous blogs seem to be about freeing ourselves from human conscious encumbrances and limitations, with this in mind, I've titled this blog simply Freedom. Philosophy and spirituality are my main fortitudes to freeing ourselves from our own bondages.
Imagine an energy that is
self-sustaining, an energy source that does not rely on other sources
of energy to exist or sustain it's existence. A type of existence
that causes energy to continue without a need to replenish exhausted
or depleted energy, a self-perpetuating or propelling energy source.
Is the dark side of human existence
self-perpetuating, the side to human life that accumulates energy
through abuse and oppression?
Yes, the light side of human existence,
the side of human existence that does not accumulate energy through
abuse and oppression, is in actuality not of the accumulation of
energy to start with, simply of the absence of accumulating energy
through abuse and oppression. Of you look upon human society,
especially the affluent side of human society, it is all based on the
accumulating and expenditure of energy through abuse and oppression
of energy sources.
Our present human societies are of the
system of expenditure of energy, usually an expenditure based on
abuse and oppression. For a society to be sustainable, we are fooled
into thinking that we need to expend energy in this way. Do the
affluent know any other way than of the accumulation of energy,
energy often accumulated through abuse and oppression? The affluent
only think of accumulating energy, not of being the energy they are
trying to accumulate.
The light side of human existence is
not of the accumulation of energy, especially energy accumulated
through abuse and oppression, but of being energy itself, a
self-perpetuating energy source.
So what is a self-perpetuating energy
source?
To put it simply, a source of energy
that is of the absence of accumulating energy especially through
abuse and oppressive means, really, it is this simple. Of course
there are a number of labels this kind of energy is called, depending
on the beliefs and culture one is conditioned to, but no matter what
this type of energy it is called, it is of the absence of
accumulating energy especially through abuse and oppressive means.
To anyone who is accustomed to
accumulating energy in a dark manner, the presence or even the
awareness of the existence of a self-perpetuating energy source is
going to seem like a huge threat to the affluent. I said seem like a
threat because this type of energy does not take energy away from an
energy sources, it is simply of the absence of the dark side of human
existence.
Will people accustomed to the dark side
of human existence want to embrace this kind of existence, even
though they won't lose their accumulated energy, in fact be of an
eternal energy source? The answer is no as it is very hard for anyone
to give up an existence one is accustomed to. Yes, many of the
affluent are fixated to accumulating energy in a dark manner,
actually, many of the impoverished and traumatised are fixated to
this way of life as well.
I know this may sound strange, but we
need to be gentle and very understanding in how the light side of
human existence will seem to the dark side of human existence, an
existence that has been the integral part of human existence for a
very long time.
Are negative people untrue where positive
people are true? This would be like saying that people who have experienced and
suffered extreme trauma are untrue people, while the people who have not
suffered trauma are true people. All traumas have some kind of negative affect
to them, this doesn't mean that all the people who have suffered from traumas
are untrue, in actuality quite the opposite. You are simply being what the
trauma has created. Even if you are still suffering from the trauma instead of
learning from the trauma, you are still a true person in relation to the trauma
experienced. An untrue person would simply try to make out that they are
positive when in actuality they are still suffering. How many suicide victims
seem happy but are in fact suffering big time. When you are untrue to yourself,
you are untrue to everyone else.
Now, how many people are suffering in
relation to what is going on in the world at present? This is while we seem
positive only because we avoid the negatives as much as possible. So avoiding
the negatives in the world to be positive will instantly make the negatives
simply vanish? In all honesty, all this has created in past history is more of
the same. In truth, being untrue to ourselves in this way simply encourages the
very same negatives we are trying to avoid to flourish even more so, thus in
turn creating an untrue reality.
People like me don't try to attract
positive people, if you are suffering, show that you are suffering even if this
seems to you or other people to be negative therefore of an untrue person. Be
what you are suffering from but learn from this suffering instead of continuing
to suffer from suffering. In other words learn from our present reality and
stop suffering from this reality by ignoring the negatives to be or seem
positive.
In all honesty, being positive or negative
takes a huge amount of energy to obtain and sustain, especially in a critically
judged negative reality. How many people are suffering even more so when we
ignore the negatives to be positive? That is a huge waste of energy through
simple neglect and abuse of energy. The trick in dealing with negatives to be
positive, is to stop suffering from the negatives by seeing them as a negative
to avoid to be positive. Instead, learn to not judge what is and isn't negative
and positive, therefore, what is and isn't true or of a true person.
So what makes a true person? A person who
is primarily honest with themselves. If you are suffering from trauma either
collectively or individually, let it be what it actually is instead of what you
desire it to be. Try to do this in the absence of positive and negative
judgment. When you do this, start to learn from your experiences instead of
suffering from your experiences. Simply being aware of this will certainly
start you on the way of being of self-honesty, therefore a truer person to
yourself and others around you.
So how do you attract people who are truer
to themselves and others? Being in the presence of self-honesty, while in the
absence of negatives and positives, will instantly have an affect on the people
who are not of self-honesty around you. Self-dishonesty or being untrue cannot
exist within the same immediate space as self-honesty, expressions of
self-honesty simply disperses dishonesty thus allowing self-honesty, truer
people, the space to flourish in. It is not that you are attracting truer
people exactly; it is that you have more space in your life for self-honest
people to flourish and express themselves freely in. See it as closing one door
thus allowing another door to open. One door, one reality, has to close for
another reality, another door, to open.
Most often our past
determines our future and most often our past, especially when related to
trauma in some way, to something we desire to stay unaware of, isn't something
we desire to be self-honest with. So what do we do? We only live within the
present while saying the past and future are irrelevant or an illusion. This
is while time is the predominant influence in our everyday life at present!!
See how dishonest we can be to ourselves? Time of course represents a past,
present and future, a state of union instead of separation, especially the
separation of one energy source from another to escape facing our traumas
personally and collectively.
It is common practice
for a consciousness in trauma, either personally or collectively, to use every
means possible to escape facing trauma. Of course to do this, we must turn away
from being of self-honesty and become dishonest with ourselves, and of course
everybody else.
Extract:Throughout history, deception has been an effective
survival strategy. Yet, like all primitive survival strategies, when deception
becomes habitual and is not directly about survival, it prevents us from
continuing growth. For each of us, to the degree that we are not real with
ourselves or that we withhold important truths from others, we just cannot keep
evolving.
I
wrote the following reply to a query in relation to my last post,
"Assisting a Consciousness in Trauma".
Basically, what you
are doing is guiding them instead of pushing them towards a goal.
My father was
trained to do this as a foreman. I tend to do this myself, my downfall is I
also express self-honesty, it is funny how this psychologically freaks people
out. Actually, when it does freak people out, their reactions tell me a lot
about them. It is not that people react, it is how they react and what they
react to.
Our consciousness
collectively isn't conditioned to being self-honest. How many of us don't look
at what our own country/culture has done and is doing to others in the world,
but we will point the finger at other cultures. Bringing a person out of the
affects of trauma takes one to become gradually self-honest, not an easy thing
to face, especially when we are conditioned to be self-dishonest with
ourselves.
I have someone at
present under my wing that is not good physically and mentally, the fits,
blackouts and the scaring to the brain certainly don't help. I am slowly
coaxing (guiding) them to be self-honest without causing more anxiety attacks.
This has done it, I
am going to right up something about self-honesty.
Spiritually, how dare I
turn to science and psychology for the answers, this is while our minds are
predominantly influenced psychology. On the other hand, how dare I turn to
spirituality for the answers, even though science has proven a number of
spiritual practices to be highly beneficial to us!! From atheism/materialism to
spirituality/religion, dishonesty predominantly influences our lives, this is
instead of self-honesty.
The article I have
inserted is worth reading through, but only if you are a self-honest
atheist/materialist or spiritual/religious, etc, person. If you are not into
self-honesty, the article supplied will only represent a threat to your psyche
and be promptly denounced in some way. Yes, by all means go into protective
state of mind but do this honestly. All that dishonesty will create, either
personally or collectively, is more of the same trauma, if not to you someone
else.
Yes, I can get into a
conscious state of timelessness, where there is no past or future, only the
present moment, a state perceived by my ego to be of utter bliss. At
no time is this separate to time where a past and future exist. Of course when
a consciousness experiences time, a past and future, trauma is sure to exist as
time is of cycles and endless changes. Spirituality is about how you cope with
the associated trauma in relation to time, not how you try to escape from time
and times association with trauma. I could not think of a higher level of fear
and self-deceptiveness, which spiritually is suppose to be not about,
or am I simply being naive here?
A number of people
might relate better to the following article.
Extract: The topic of brutal self-honesty is consciously looked
upon as worthy of pursuing but the majority of people don’t have the emotional
maturity to follow through with such a concept.
Brutal self-honesty requires hard,
emotional labor. It requires the individual to engage with the following:
Ego Dissolution
The ego wants you to stay
unconscious. It doesn’t want you to be brutally honest with yourself because
that means that the ego must change and change is not what it wants —comfort
is what the ego wants.
First of all, I humbly apologise to my
readers who are unable to understand the English language as I am going to
start this post off with a video that is in English. If you can understand the
English language, please watch the video before reading on. If you can't
understand the English language, I will explain, in my own words, what the
video is about so you can translate the English language into you own
language.
The video is about experiencing no self, a
state of consciousness that is not about the self separate from all other
selves but about a state of the eternal self or divine self. The strange thing
is, the eternal self isn't about the self at all as there is no self or even
self awareness. The eternal self refers to the
eternal being where all is as one and acts as one, even while experiencing
a reality where everything has its own identity, its own self.
Yes, you can experience individuality while
in a state of eternal being, make no mistake, we are all doing this right now,
it's just most of us are unaware of this. We are unaware because our present
consciousness is conditioned primarily to the self, individuality. How many
people refer to the inner self or self awareness? Materialism or anything else
that the ego in control feeds on is often of the self, of an individual
identity, how else would the ego in control survive? I wrote a few years ago on
a spiritual forum in how we don't even own our own personal thoughts, as usual
this wasn't well received or accepted.
So why am I making reference to the eternal
self? How else is the ego going to be able to comprehend anything if we don't
refer to the self? The ego in control needs to relate to something to
comprehend it and then understand it.
Any ego that is conditioned to the self or
individuality in any sense, is a good indication that the ego is conditioned to
individuality, a state of separate entities. I am self aware or I am of the
inner self is still making reference to an individual entity, only because the
ego in control can only comprehend this eternal state of being as self. The ego
in control needs to start somewhere so it will naturally relate eternal being
to the eternal self. It's important to allow the ego to go through this
process. At no time have any kind of disdain for the ego in control, avoiding
this will allow the process of enlightenment to happen naturally. Simply go
with the flow and remember, the ego desires control and will try to control
this process, try to avoid this by simply becoming aware of the egos
controlling ways. Sadly, I have lost count in how many Western spiritually
aware people make reference to taking control and empowerment.
I have at no time in my life have become spiritually
aware, I have simply let go of the attachments of control. Yes, I have allowed
myself to be controlled for to take control of being controlled is still
control. What I have done is simply detached myself from control, even while
being controlled myself. It's important to remember, it's our self that is being controlled, not our eternal being. The
only way control can be implemented or exist is through the self as an
individual entity. Yes, myself has
become spiritually aware but not my eternal being for there is nothing to
become aware of, only the self can experience a sense of becoming aware or
enlightenment.
I, at one time, had a Reiki teacher say to
me after my treatment with them, "You have experienced the lotus flower in
this life." The lotus flower refers to detachments brought into being by
the ego. I had to say no, not in what you would refer to in this life but what
you would refer to in another life. The soul perspective is, it's all one life
with different life experiences to be experienced. The ego refers to different
life experiences to be experienced as lives lived separate to all other lives lived,
however, the soul sees it as one life which is more eternal and limitless where
the ego sees it as ephemeral and limited. In so-called past lives, I have had
numerous experiences pertaining to the lotus flower. My soul simply sees life
experiences as one life with no separation.
I know this is hard to truly comprehend but
life as whole is not about the human self, it's about the eternal being which
is often referred to as our truer being, or as the ego sees it, our truer self
or inner self. Yes, it makes a difference once you start referring to the
eternal self as the eternal being but remember, the ego has to start somewhere.
Be patientwith the ego and try to go
through the process of awareness without trying to take control of this
process.
Yes, these are trying times to the self,
they always have been throughout human history, but not to the eternal being.
Your soul may want to stay unaware of the eternal being, I didn't even want to
become aware of the things I am aware of as the self but my soul said
otherwise, this is the way it is. If the soul says it wants to experience being
controlling, that is the way it will be, accept this and move on for all is of
the eternal being.
One more thing, the eternal being isn't
separate to the self; it's not a separate entity or state. The eternal being is
everything in what it is and in how it is, this includes the perception of self
and the self's ego and all the ego creates. Once you experience the eternal
being, only then do you realise there is no ultimate state separate to all
other states. All that is without exception is of the ultimate state, in
actuality, consciousnesses, like experiencing human consciousness, can often be
seen as an ultimate state for the eternal being. To be humble is to deny the ego control, especially while being
controlled by the ego!! Not an easy phrase for the ego in control to understand,
as I should know myself as I am what you are without question.
The following might be a good read for some
people, not that I have read it myself.
Extract: Your Eternal Self ends by describing what our purpose seems
to be in life, what true spirituality is, how people can grow spiritually to
change themselves so they have love and bliss in their lives, how they can
provide that loving legacy for their children's children, and what the research
has shown about the world of the afterlife.
We most often perceive an inner and outer
self, the inner self being our truer being and the outer self being our
projected being. The truer being or self pertains to the self that is not
influenced by external environments, where the outer self is primarily of and
created by our external environment. For example, our five senses are primarily
of our outer self thus giving us a projected image of our outer environment.
Our inner self at no time is influenced by our five senses thus giving us a
projected image of our inner environment. Of course if you are totally reliant
on the five senses, nothing beyond the five senses can be comprehended
therefore exist, this is quite understandable.
When we talk about the inner self, this is
still projecting an inner environment as opposed to an outer environment
through the five senses. Only through the five senses can the existence of an
inner and outer environment or self exist, this is because in out, back forth,
up down, are all based on our five senses. Our five senses were created by our
physical environment and our physical environment is completely determined to
what is in out, back forth, up down, in other words time based realities or
existences. We, through our five senses, have projected an existence of day and
night on a revolving planet going around the sun. We are completely conditioned
to a reality of days and nights therefore time. Is not the projection of day
and night the same as the inner and outer self? The projection being, one is
inner so the other is outer. This is still based primarily of the conditioning
of the five senses.
As in night and day, we are still
projecting an image of an inner and outer self which is still primarily based
on time therefore our five senses. The inner self exist only because the outer
self exists as in day only exists because night exists. These are simply
projections governed by our physical environment, no more. Isn't the perception
of an inner self reliant on the existence of an outer self, in other words the
inner self owes it's existence to the perception of an outer self, as in day
and night. Within this, we are still primarily reliant on a physical existence
and time to give us a projected image of an inner self. Now imagine going
beyond this projection.
I have inserted a small article bellow
where Sadhguru mentions the inner self. In my own words, the atman, the eternal
self, refers to the real self beyond ego; this is what is
known as the inner self, a self in the
absence of ego. This egoless self is projected to being inner only because
the present environment we are experiencing is ego. The ego is projected as
being of the outer self and the self in the absence of ego is projected as
being the inner self. What makes an inner and outer state in the absence of
ego? Ego completely relies on time to exist, in other words motion like in
out, back forth, up down, starting and ending points. In a state in the absence of ego, inner and
outer selves simply don't exist, only in existences based on time and motion
can inner and outer selves exist. What we project to be our eternal self is not
governed by time because in this state there is no starting or ending points,
it's simply an eternal state of being. Instead of stating an eternal state of
being, we most often state inner self, how else is the ego self going to relate
to the eternal self otherwise? This is exactly like nothing beyond the
five senses can be comprehended therefore exist, this is unless we use what the five senses comprehends, in
out, back forth, up down, starting and ending points.
Once you comprehend the inner self, the
eternal self, let go of this projection of the inner self. In reality though,
once you truly comprehend the eternal self, there is no ego in control to stay
attached to the projection of the inner self as opposed to the outer self.
I truly hope this is comprehensible as I am
aware where this kind of awareness can lead.
Extract:People are always asking me, “Sadhguru,
you are talking about so many subjects. Where do you get the time to read?” I
say, “I don’t read.” What is there in front of me, I perceive it as it is and
that is it. There is no need to carry the burden of knowledge on your head if
your perception is keen enough. So perception can be raised to various levels
through certain inner instruments. “Is it very difficult? Can I rise beyond my
senses? Do I have to withdraw to a Himalayan cave to do this?”
