Christ taught the Dharma

 Jesus taught the dharma, this is what he brought to the people he ministered to. This is what was so different and powerful that it scared many people in power. It was too different, to foreign, and too destabilizing to accept. He did it in such an open way that he threatened those in power, and he was crucified because of it. What Jesus taught was that we no longer need to adhere to the traditional systems that have been in place for millennia. These have a practical purpose, but their is a more direct way to live that transcends established practice. He taught that the law is unconditional Love and that God lives within our hearts, that our conscience is a higher law than any custom or authority on Earth. He taught to live directly from God rather than through an intermediary, than puts the responsibility in the hands of the individual rather than the community. He teaches us to be lords unto ourselves, by embracing the law which is Christ. Conscience requires an objectivity that transcends social custom. This is a radical perspective compared to the strict adherence to social code that dominated the world then and still does so today. This isn't one ignoring social customs to pursue the gratifications of their own desires, it is utilizing reason in a way that transcends the limited ways in which people tenuously go about expanding their understanding of the universe. This logic depends upon social participation in established practice, which slowly evolves, yet never really reaches beyond a certain point. It can't because it has to keep things at a distance so it can study them and protect itself, it will always keep a distance between itself and truth, because it is afraid of looking at it directly. In order to move closer, it must evolve. It must become more vulnerable and assume more responsibility, taking charge for it's life rather than depending upon the fabric of the community for support. Christ sets the law, because Christ is the Lord, when we become Christ, we become the Lord. Christ didn't want us to be Christ like, he wanted us to bear the cross as he did, he saw those that followed him, followed Christ as family, because these people chose to dwell in Christ as he did, he said he did not know his biological family, which according to social custom would be his true family. He is stating that there is a higher law, that comes directly from the heart, this is an objective good that transcends outer customs, he urges us to follow this and to abandon antiquity, to move into a new world. This is monumental, this completely undermines the existing power structure on the planet, which is based on either one's might, or intelligence. He places the order instead in the hands of the objective good, which I believe is the Dharma or mind of Christ. This is the Lord because it sets the law that others follow, when it descends to the people, which are only people of custom who oblige to follow it, but Christ did not want us to be mere followers, he wanted us to rise to the challenge of become like him, not an endless attempt to imitate him, but to adopt the same qualities and heart as him, to be that of the same category. He literally asks us to follow him, when really he is demanding that we take the responsibility of leadership upon ourselves by assuming the same burden of the Christ Cross that he does. He's a fucking savage. If we can get over the sentimental image that traditional Christianity drowns him in, we can see what a total fricken dude he was. He wasn't about all the bullshit of doctrinal religion, he was about being radically present and radically intune with the spontaneous living law of the universe. He was a surfer, and he got on the biggest wave he could and didn't give a fuck what people thought of him. He gave every ounce of himself so that other people could be free of ignorance, not to join some idiotic crusade that Glorifies their bullshit in his name. He wouldn't have wanted any of this. He just wanted people to live directly with God, on their own terms. I thought for the longest time that we needed to return to the good old days of true blue conformist society. Their are a lot of great things about this way of life, but it is sorely limited. I was afraid of being more honest with myself, afraid of looking directly at what is going on. We have to expand our frontiers and move forward, we can't look back or stay where we are, it isn't as good as we thought it was, and it isn't good enough to deal with the changes our world is facing today. As a species we are moving beyond these traditional roles, it is happening, it is a fucking fact, no matter how much you are comfortable with true blue, it is becoming outdated. Everyone is at a different spot in development. This is fine. You have to grow from the bottom up. I am just expressing my angst at the rigidity to which people hold on to the past, onto established norms, onto what is comfortable, especially when it isn't helpful, and rather harmful. Much of what is popular or trending culture tells us to be independent, but it is also drilling in the idea that we have to do what the ads say, what popular culture says, it is hard-wiring us to be servants of the commercial law, to be stuck as blue slaves, it is really instilling fear and anxiety about deciding things for ourselves, which is not what it pretends to be on the surface. It aims at making us distracted and competitive with eachother while it continues to dominate the field. It really isn't a true lord, but rather an egoic tyrant, that rules through might rather than divine right. We are seduced by it's message, which is evil. It's all bullshit. The good thing about all the commercial shit is the development of industry and technology/science that goes along with it. I think it is good that we have so much more to choose from and that it is much more available. Despite the bullshit of corporate tyranny, reason is expanding throughout the globe and this is liberating people from narrow traditional paths. Without this step, we would not be able to embrace communism as we will in the future. I am not talking about government forced authoritative communism. I am talking about a communism that naturally evolves in democratic societies in which people choose to form communal societies because it serves them best in the here and now. This is not forced, but a natural evolution of things. I am guessing that when we are capable of embracing Spirituality rationally, we see the world through the lens of Christ consciousness, we see the subtle unity of all things as One underlying body. We no longer have to follow the Holy Ghost, but have merged with it which somehow opens up the universe to and exposes the underlying unity of form. We are capable of seeing that the traditional roles we played and the logical maneuvers that we made where necessary to get to this point, now we are capable of shedding these roles and taking direct steps towards realization of Truth and self fulfillment. God is not a distant companion, but a living field that animates every atom of our being and spreads infinitely and eternally in all directions. God is not an always other, but our own personal consciousness, He or She or It is divine, and so are we, because we are it. Perhaps this is why Jesus is so persistent in calling himself the Son of God. He feels so intimately how every part of himself is Holy and Divine, equally divine as God within Divinity. He is Divine and so are we. This is the Dharma. We are living in it, as it. This place is Holy, it is Divine. Nothing is separate from Divinity, we only temporarily perceive it to be so, this is not the truth. The whole World is Light, full of Light, and we all are free in it.