I'm not sure if we can move completely beyond pain, suffering, delusion, dualistic thinking, etc. I don't think we need to, but I believe that we wish to end suffering and delusion in our hearts and that we definitely can decrease them in our lives by increasing our understanding and wisdom. Part of increasing this understanding is seeing that everything we feel and see as negative is also positive. We subjectively experience it as negativity, when in fact negativity might not exist at all outside of our subjective experience. We call things positive or negative according to how they make us feel in the present. I believe that it is our delusion that makes us think in this way: to think that something can help us and something else will hurt us. This is a very radical idea, but it makes more sense when you begin to look at everything that happens to us as medicine. Or not even medicine, but just the ceaseless creation and evolution of form. Or that the only reasons we believe in negativity are that we are afraid of death and we are ignorant of inseparability of form. We believe that good things are separate from negative ones, when in fact they are inseparable and one. We believe that there is a thing called life separate from death and that we need to prevent death at all costs. If everything is one and apart of our being, then we cannot die, we never began to be alive as an individual person(outside of our subjective experience), we have nothing to gain or lose (because we are not a separate person who can gain anything, we always have everything, because we are everything). You can talk about this, but I believe this conversation transcends communication.
The point is that the way we see things may be much of many assumptions and that our constant striving to uphold and repress may be largely unnecessary in the long term. The dichotomy of good v.s. evil or good versus bad seems to be largely fiction and the result of expanding consciousness towards enlightenment and temporary delusion due to ignorance (an unilluminated mind).
This is my attempt to lighten up your thinking and point you in the direction of release from conceptualizing and the trap of dualistic thinking. It's essentially abandoning the war for radical acceptance of one's position in the present moment. Release from attachments and striving created by dualistic thinking and misunderstanding.
We don't need to war against the world, against assumed negativity, against ourselves. Negativity is a point for further understanding, for deepening consciousness and feeling, for finding another part of ourselves and including it in our general movement. Negativity is the point that is the release from egoic thinking and being into something much different. It is the doorway to Christ and God in a way transcendent of dogma.
Negativity is just as expanding and alive as what we see as positive in our lives. It is form being born right now, exactly the same as positivity is form being born right now. It has direction, it is expanding and it is apart of you, apart of us. We see it as negative in our delusion, and turn away from it thinking it will keep us from darkness. It may partially keep us away, but it will also keep us in it. If we turn away from life too much, we will lose our connection to the divine, and we will be lost in darkness. It is the various imaginings of negativity that lead us to turning away. Illumination and liberation come from turning towards life, by facing what we perceive as negative and challenging this perception in the light of God. We intuit we are something more, that life is wholesome. By turning towards what we feel and think is negative in life, we turn towards God, truth, and liberation. The roots of negativity are knowledge and illumination, release and salvation.
This isn't a call to ignore our senses and completely abandon our beliefs, this is dangerous and foolish. This action is calling the bird by another name and thinking it's a different bird. I'm suggesting that if we look deeper into our feelings and into the nature of reality we may find that the underlying structures are not what we supposed they were. The rules to the game are different if not simply more complex and by understanding and perceiving this revealed nature we can be freer and more fulfilled.
Bad is an idea and a social construct. It has to do with survival and obtaining what we want. It isn't absolutely true, it's contrived. This doesn't mean that things don't hurt and we won't or ought not to suffer, it just means that nothing is absolutely bad. Bad is subjective and relative. All our ideas are subjective and relative. Why is this important? It means that we don't have to be attached to how things are. It means that in a way, we are something much bigger that what we do and don't like. It means that part of being free and fulfilled is seeing beyond conventional dualistic thinking to a reality much less confined and stratified.
I think we take wisdom from this deeper reality and use it in our human lives. It informs us to make "good" decisions, decisions that are informed by the deeper whole rather than the deluded mind. All that "good" is in this case is clarity in judgment. Clarity opposed to a mind muddled in contrived beliefs. It is "good" because it isn't insane. It is grounded in sense rather than in blind devotion to belief. This leads to healthy social organization opposed to the degeneration of social order due to disconnect from sense, being lost in contrived worldviews. It is good, because it allows our energies to flow harmoniously, which leads to love and joy, the greatest wonders of being alive. This is what goodness really is.
Goodness is something other than merely what is opposed to that which is negative. Goodness is seeing clearly. I think in a way the Good is a universe without the negative in so much as it is a universe where the negative and the positive have become one. It's not a universe separate from our own, but our own seen with eyes less clouded by judgment. Imagine the whole universe expanding within you in indescribable form radiating from an unperceivable center. Blossoming infinitely, unendingly, spontaneously, always fresh and novel in it's ceaseless creation. There is no inside or outside, up or down. It is a spring of lightness and laughter, but not in the way you would imagine.
The experience of negativity can arise here, it is one with the whole. But, what if it wasn't as menacing. What if it was known that it was alive and one with your heart, waiting to be totally dissolved into your being. What if it was known that everything was alive and positively expanding. If you turned negativity upside down, it would be something that didn't degrade experience and take away from life, but it added to it with equal vivacity as that which is wholly felt to be positive. Fundamentally, that which is negative is of the same energetic content as that which is positive. We suffer it when it does not align with our heart's desires. If you remove the mask of our heart's inherent bias, that which was negative is no longer negative, it is a unique living and an expanding positive expression among and infinite number of other unique positive expressions all abounding from the source which is life itself producing life itself. Everything negative: anger, hate, fear, distaste, all the atrocities of the world are all positive experiences in the way that they are creative and positively expanding in their fundamental energetic nature.
We imagine that they are destructive to life's complexity and fullness, but it seems to me that this is impossible. Everything is one with the creative expansion of the universe. Everything enhances the universe. I don't fully understand this, but there seems to be much truth here. It seems to me that it is our dualistic and contrived thinking that actually create the suffering that we experience. We are afraid to let go to the ultimate because we think we will be destroyed by accepting our dark side, when it is really our dark side that repressed is what destroys our unimpeded consciousness. For most of us, this isn't a walk in the park. This is a radically new way of living, seemingly very alien from what we know. It is very different. This doesn't mean it is wrong. I don't think it's right for everyone to pursue this, and if you are I don't think it is necessarily right that you pursue it full force.
This is the underlying nature of reality. The reality that seemingly underlies our everyday human experiences. Describing it thus is merely a convenient way to present it to people who don't understand it. In reality, it is how things are always. We just live in delusion. We think things are separate and that we are separate from each other and the universe. We think in terms of good versus bad, up versus down. It gets to a point when you see that these are simply ideas that help us describe the universe. They do not exist outside of our imaginations. They do not in fact delineate the world in so much as borders on a map exist on the terrain of the world. It's all contrived. We are in fact not separate individuals. We are One and undivided and impossibly describable. The key is to see outside of our ordinary binary consciousness into perception of the raw and unadulterated universe. This is what gives us the aha moment where we understand the complete foolishness of our ways and the ways of much of our society. This is what allows us to be wise and to care for each other. This is what allows us to be free. What if nothing is good and nothing is bad, yet everything is right now, expanding untouched by our minds and our thoughts and who we think we are. What if this is what is real and much of what we experience is delusion. What if it didn't matter if we were enlightened or not because this delusion was one with wisdom and insight. What if it didn't matter because as we are we are all we can ever be right now because we are the entirety of the universe exactly as we are now and there is nothing we can do to change this. Negative, positive, words, spla, goop, GOD.
This isn't a call to ignore our senses and completely abandon our beliefs, this is dangerous and foolish. This action is calling the bird by another name and thinking it's a different bird. I'm suggesting that if we look deeper into our feelings and into the nature of reality we may find that the underlying structures are not what we supposed they were. The rules to the game are different if not simply more complex and by understanding and perceiving this revealed nature we can be freer and more fulfilled.
Bad is an idea and a social construct. It has to do with survival and obtaining what we want. It isn't absolutely true, it's contrived. This doesn't mean that things don't hurt and we won't or ought not to suffer, it just means that nothing is absolutely bad. Bad is subjective and relative. All our ideas are subjective and relative. Why is this important? It means that we don't have to be attached to how things are. It means that in a way, we are something much bigger that what we do and don't like. It means that part of being free and fulfilled is seeing beyond conventional dualistic thinking to a reality much less confined and stratified.
I think we take wisdom from this deeper reality and use it in our human lives. It informs us to make "good" decisions, decisions that are informed by the deeper whole rather than the deluded mind. All that "good" is in this case is clarity in judgment. Clarity opposed to a mind muddled in contrived beliefs. It is "good" because it isn't insane. It is grounded in sense rather than in blind devotion to belief. This leads to healthy social organization opposed to the degeneration of social order due to disconnect from sense, being lost in contrived worldviews. It is good, because it allows our energies to flow harmoniously, which leads to love and joy, the greatest wonders of being alive. This is what goodness really is.
Goodness is something other than merely what is opposed to that which is negative. Goodness is seeing clearly. I think in a way the Good is a universe without the negative in so much as it is a universe where the negative and the positive have become one. It's not a universe separate from our own, but our own seen with eyes less clouded by judgment. Imagine the whole universe expanding within you in indescribable form radiating from an unperceivable center. Blossoming infinitely, unendingly, spontaneously, always fresh and novel in it's ceaseless creation. There is no inside or outside, up or down. It is a spring of lightness and laughter, but not in the way you would imagine.
The experience of negativity can arise here, it is one with the whole. But, what if it wasn't as menacing. What if it was known that it was alive and one with your heart, waiting to be totally dissolved into your being. What if it was known that everything was alive and positively expanding. If you turned negativity upside down, it would be something that didn't degrade experience and take away from life, but it added to it with equal vivacity as that which is wholly felt to be positive. Fundamentally, that which is negative is of the same energetic content as that which is positive. We suffer it when it does not align with our heart's desires. If you remove the mask of our heart's inherent bias, that which was negative is no longer negative, it is a unique living and an expanding positive expression among and infinite number of other unique positive expressions all abounding from the source which is life itself producing life itself. Everything negative: anger, hate, fear, distaste, all the atrocities of the world are all positive experiences in the way that they are creative and positively expanding in their fundamental energetic nature.
We imagine that they are destructive to life's complexity and fullness, but it seems to me that this is impossible. Everything is one with the creative expansion of the universe. Everything enhances the universe. I don't fully understand this, but there seems to be much truth here. It seems to me that it is our dualistic and contrived thinking that actually create the suffering that we experience. We are afraid to let go to the ultimate because we think we will be destroyed by accepting our dark side, when it is really our dark side that repressed is what destroys our unimpeded consciousness. For most of us, this isn't a walk in the park. This is a radically new way of living, seemingly very alien from what we know. It is very different. This doesn't mean it is wrong. I don't think it's right for everyone to pursue this, and if you are I don't think it is necessarily right that you pursue it full force.
This is the underlying nature of reality. The reality that seemingly underlies our everyday human experiences. Describing it thus is merely a convenient way to present it to people who don't understand it. In reality, it is how things are always. We just live in delusion. We think things are separate and that we are separate from each other and the universe. We think in terms of good versus bad, up versus down. It gets to a point when you see that these are simply ideas that help us describe the universe. They do not exist outside of our imaginations. They do not in fact delineate the world in so much as borders on a map exist on the terrain of the world. It's all contrived. We are in fact not separate individuals. We are One and undivided and impossibly describable. The key is to see outside of our ordinary binary consciousness into perception of the raw and unadulterated universe. This is what gives us the aha moment where we understand the complete foolishness of our ways and the ways of much of our society. This is what allows us to be wise and to care for each other. This is what allows us to be free. What if nothing is good and nothing is bad, yet everything is right now, expanding untouched by our minds and our thoughts and who we think we are. What if this is what is real and much of what we experience is delusion. What if it didn't matter if we were enlightened or not because this delusion was one with wisdom and insight. What if it didn't matter because as we are we are all we can ever be right now because we are the entirety of the universe exactly as we are now and there is nothing we can do to change this. Negative, positive, words, spla, goop, GOD.
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