understanding is the soil of all love, misunderstanding is the cause of all fear. What Christianity wants people to believe to be "divine understanding" to foster a love of God (ie of the religion that claims to connect that person to God), creates division between people with different beliefs about the nature of being human and the purpose and meaning of life itself.
To love life we must accept change, for change is the most natural law of the universe, while fear of change is to blaspheme the laws of the universe. God may be unchanging, but because such a "being" is infinite, and we by comparison are finite. it is impossible for the finite to know the infinite without the one being forced to always change its view and understanding of the other. Numbers are infinite, for example, but to claim it is blasphemy to seek to know more about numbers than counting to ten is what Catholicism tries to teach its followers, and to fear anyone who dares to count any higher than that.
Everything about us changes, in both mind and body. But religion preaches eternity without change, and commands us to think in terms of never changing our mind about our beliefs in our religion and our ideas of God.But the only way the finite can experience the infinite is through constant change, the same way a person can only count to infinity by always changing the number they are counting.
the real you is not your initial reaction. You initial reaction is dictated by the past, which is written in invisible ink in your emotional brain. your intentional reaction is the real you, the reflective you, the rational brain you, the adult you, the part of you that is climbing out of the soil of the past experiences, the quicksand of your emotional trauma.
when we are craving for things to be a certain way, this is attachment... attachments are born out of craving, and keeps the mind full of suffering, like a child that longs for the comforts of home.
healing and liberation go hand and hand. no modality, no religion, has a monopoly on how to heal.
We are designed to find our own way to heal. No two cups break in the same way.
the mind sees the present through the stained glasses windows of past experiences
A guide is not a savior. a savior requires us to believe we are powerless to save ourselves, they save us in exchange for loyalty, which is designed to create dependents and sycophants. A belief that we are born sinners that need forgiveness to be saved teaches us to believe we are incapable of healing, or saving, ourselves. It teaches us we must exchange our freedom to live as we wish for the chance to avoid being cast in the Auschwitz ovens in the afterlife called hell.
A shaman learns by venturing into the deserts of experience, while the scholar learns in the temple. A shaman is a guide, one who shows you the perils and pitfalls to various actions and inaction, while a scholar is a priest and a moral police officer, who uses the fear of punishment and the hope of reward to condition behavior. One guides us to "know theyself" with an understanding that "the kingdom of God is within," while the other commands us to know only (their brand) of God, by following
Falling in love with a belief we were taught as a child is a variation of falling in love with permanent youth. Like Peter Pan and Holden Caulfield, it is a refusal to "put away childish things." This is reflected in the idea that God does not change, and neither should our beliefs about God. And we will be rewarded with never changing as we live forever, never growing old, if we never change our minds. But again, we are finite, and God is infinite. Refusing to change our mind is like refusing to count past the number 1, and then claiming the number 1 equals infinite, and anyone who counts to two or beyond is going to hell.
we deny death because it is the reminder that things change. At funerals, we tell ourselves they are not dead, they are still alive, but now in a place where death cannot touch them any longer. Without death, there can be no growth, or change, or evolution. Dogmas are designed to prevent growth in the same way. Dogmas are a tomb for understanding, comfort zones that becomes our prisons.
why would an infinite God cast us into a world of change, designed with a flaw and "sin" that wants to disobey dogmas, and trapped in a body that biologically needs to grow or decay, and then told we must rely on a religion that teaches us to believe in a God and afterlife that never changes, when nothing learned in the former can be reconciled with, let alone applied to living in, such an environment?
to believe a person is their initial reaction is a false reality, it is to believe in a false self. through intention we show our true selves, we are authentic.
cravings are a rejection of reality, for reality is change, a craving for certainty is a craving for things not changing, a false reality, like Peter Pan.
there is no security in attachment. a desire for permanence is a rebellion and a blaspheming of impermanence. a craving for perfection is to crucify ourselves to the cross of an ideal "us." which we project into the sky in the form of a God, one which promises to "save us" if we then scapegoat "them" and project our own imperfections on to others, who are damned.
if the pain is deep, we have to let it go several times
it is a hurt from the past that causes us to fear the future
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