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Posted by Bollinger
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All we seem to hear is the same old tired arguments.
Greetings, Friend!
I apolgize if I have wearied you, but let me give you an example of what I mean. Let's say you are on an operating table in the midst of some surgery, and suddenly you are observing from the vantage point of one floating near the ceiling, watching the goings-on below with utter detachment. You see what you once thought of as yourself, now as simply a body on a table.
Before, you might have been firmly convinced that you were that body, but now you see that you are observing that body, and so you must be prior to that body. Wow! Before, if anyone had talked about a reality far beyond that described by modern science, you might have accused them of being a religionist, but now you have seen for yourself, and so it appears you are going to have to revise your estimation on such matters.
That's the first thing to notice, that you are not the body, but from there, things get even more interesting. You may find that you now have access to a kind of universal knowledge, right at your fingetips. You may come to understand, for example, that what you once considered "good and bad" is merely a kind of software program running in a classroom for slow learners and/or repeat offenders -- those who have yet to learn how to behave; you know, the basics -- like seeing through and letting go of unskillful habit patterns laced with greed, hatred, envy, judgment, and fear, for example.
Now, rather than making demands on life -- that it prove itself to you, that it clarify its mysteries for your personal edification -- you come to understand that you yourself are responsible for your own awakening. As one of my teachers pointed out, "Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy."
That's a big step. Before, you might have wanted to blame religions, or political conspiracies, or money, or aliens, or whatever, for the sorry state you perceive the world to be in, but now you begin to recognize that what we have called "the world" is more like an ingeniously customized virtual reality program, and that it has been our stubborn ignorance piled on ignorance which has blinded us to the fact that it is, in the end, our own creation. Nor are we here to change the world as much as we are here to be changed by the world, to understand, and move on -- for many, there's a hard lesson there, depending on how much we cling to the toys of our childhood and resist growing up.
Moreover, the further you explore this expanded vision of things, you might begin to notice that there are many bright beings normally unseen and unknown by humans, busy doing all sorts of things throughout the cosmos, upholding and preserving and destroying, performing all sorts of incomprehensible functions, and constantly intervening and serving our greater awakening, and yet, remaining totally unappreciated by the very ones they have been ceaselessly serving. I thank them again and again!
Now, if you are returned to your body, you might approach the whole matter quite a bit differently, but you'd likely eventually find yourself in the strange predicament of folks demanding proof (some artifact from beyond, perhaps), that you've indeed been out of the body and have seen a bigger picture. You just might find yourself saying something like, "Well, you would have to have been there, to see it for yourself . . ." Of course, that's when they might accuse you of being a religionist, and demand to know what good it does for humanity anyway. Funny how things go, eh?
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