You Are In a Cult and You Don't Even Know It
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Thomas Merton on the idolatry of our social and political ideas and how the image we create of ourselves and our enemies becomes fixed and immovable.
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Thanks for sharing this gem! Ur my kind of people ❤
Great stuff!
Ask the question with mind pictures and/or voice, and ask out aloud with the mouth, and ask by writing it down - "What does this truly know or unknow about that which is said to be aware of this?". Ask it. Try it. It will be observed that no matter what it is called, labelled, the symbol, mind, body and the world of the senses, neither knows nor can unknow that which is aware of this. Yet, I be it!
The fear and desire of knowing and unknowing is a verb called anxiety. Surrender to the physical and emotional alert to it with a Sigh of Relief. Two half breaths in through the nose followed by a long slow Sigh of Relief out through the mouth. The physical surrender of the physical surrendering to the physical. Which in truth is the I am not, realising the true identity that is I am.
Recognise that the I am not identity is Ego pain and Suffering that can be referred to as Ego Sign. It is an alert that is the misidentification that is the I am not. When in truth, all is I am.
This is not semantic metaphor, or magical thinking affirmations. I do not have to know, nor do I have to unknow anything to simply be. Do I disappear when the mind is still?
All anything, a book, a comment, thought, even a fart, can truly say by simply being is - I am.
More fiction of the I am not. Let's refer to that self aware present moment as The Language of Consciousness. This comment is The Language of Form. Form cannot "speak" the language of consciousness, yet the language of consciousness is fluent in the language of form. Why? Because there is no form of stuff and things, spacetime, energy and matter, mind and body and the world of the senses. I am not is an illusion. A fiction of the explanation of mind.
There be only I am. I am with, I am without explanation. I am.
It is the I am not misidentification that is the alert, that is the pain and suffering, that is the fear and desire combinations of sadness, guilt, anxiety (this explanation), and arousal (frustration-anger and excitement), that in truth I be am. When the true identity, that is I am is realised, there can be no presence of the form of the I am not. Because even the I am not identity says "I am" by simply being! When this truth is realised there can be, because there is only awareness and presence of I am.
Observe the question put. Shift attention to that which is aware of the question of mind, body and the world of the senses. It will be truly observed that all be one and the same. All that be is now. Yet, requires no answer of knowing and unknowing. Because the presence of mind, emotions, feels, body and world of the senses, be in truth the same presence that be I am!
Observe the body. The sensations. It is the true self that is the "light" that shines here there and everywhere.
Can there be anything more to know or to unknow about being? Because even knowing and unknowing be I am!
The I am not misidentification can present to I that which can be labelled as dualism. The fear and desire of position and opposition. The desire of fear is excitement. The fear of desire is frustration-anger. It offers many arguments and debates about the same position and opposition of I am. Observe the awareness of the body? Is I am at the feet, the nose, the hands, the sounds, the sights, the ambiance of the world? Define the position and opposition of I am! Now you see the ludicrous, hopeless and futile actions of knowing and unknowing! That stuff of action be I am! So what point or point-not is there of knowing and unknowing, when it all be I am?!
When the clouds disperse and the sun goes down, and I am "asleep", do I stop being? Then what is aware of the blank void in-between being awake, of dreams, of sleep. and of awakening with a full bladder? I am!
All be I am. I am that I am. I am.
Walter R. Martin
was a good author too.
hmm i always had a feeling each generation is getting weaker in many ways.
Should probably elaborate on what is meant by this. I feel like the language is going to be hard for a lot of people to grasp the meaning of mainly due to it's age. That and younger people will have no idea what some of that means. I need to get me a copy of that one though it's got some real wisdom in it. Incorrect thinking has spread like wildfire thanks to the internet. I imagine this is what radio and television did and why we have books like this from the past that reflect what we see today. Every time we gain a new way to communicate we have a surge of this type.