Accept no imitations! How clear can this be made to all of us? No one wants to hear this, of course. Therefore, if we don't want to hear it, we won't. This life really is wonderful, and we truly always get what we request in our experience of creating ourselves.
Ok, ok, I'm not making any sense to most, probably. I get so excited about all of this - so impassioned by what I am seeing and so eager to pass it on to anyone who will hear so that they, too, may know who they really are.
Where do I begin? Back to the beginning I'll go. We are imitators! This is how we live our lives and this is why we find no real spiritual satisfaction in most of our organized religions. Should a caterpillar decide to hold at bey its butterfly nature because it meets with worms a few times a week and worms say it is good to be like them, to follow the rules of their life, to stay on the ground, to not change form? Would not the caterpillar be missing out on the greatest part of its life if it decided to live like the worms with whom it meets just to stay in their community? Could the caterpillar realize the joy of the life it is meant to have if it refuses to believe that its unique butterfly nature is its true nature in favor of believing it is better to conform to the truth of the worms in order to avoid being alone? Is it not obvious that the caterpillar would experience misery and suffering in resisting the truth of its being, yet that it would experience only an exquisite peace and contentment in allowing its true nature to express to the universe what the caterpillar truly is?
I know some reading this may find my example absurd. However, I tell you with all the love in my heart that this is EXACTLY how we live! We are a Soul that, as Emerson stated, "refuses limits," yet we pain ourselves by limiting it to the life we would say it should have based on the ideas and doctrines that have been force-fed us by selfish, psychopathic individuals. We have, in fact, accepted these "beliefs" so readily because we ourselves are selfish, psychopathic individuals and it serves the selfish desire of the mind (that believes that the person must be divided in order for it to remain relevant and thus "alive") from which we are living to have someone tell us every week what is right and what is wrong without us ever having to figure that out for ourselves. Then, we actually have the gall to wonder why we feel no depth to what we study in our religious environments, and we don't understand why we cannot find practical applications for the rules and laws we go there to have brainwashed into our minds so that our minds can then try to impose these arbitrary limits upon our Boundless Souls.
We look to books and we look to so-called prophets and we look to the "Only Begotten Son of God" and we beg these resources to "be my source of truth because I cannot bear to think for myself." The ignorant mind is then confounded when reading book after book after book and imitating the messages of the books and the teachers and the prophets fails to quiet its incessant desires that cause it to suffer. How can such a person who looks outside of himself/herself for Truth find anything but discontent and suffering? This is the very definition of a "house divided against itself."
This is what Christ and Buddha (I use these names as very popular spiritual masters, although there are and have been many, many others who have been here to show us the way) tried to show to us all: set no one above you (even Me Christ, Me Buddha) because everything I am you can be (and, in fact, already are), too. Yet, you cannot be this by imitating those who would constrain you to their view of the world. You cannot be the God You Are by analyzing "scripture" and books and even Me (Christ, Buddha) who is showing you this. Rather, these scriptures and these books and I (Christ, Buddha) am here to guide you back to the only real source of Truth for anyone: Yourself!
Just observe that these two Beings are considered two of the most creative and original people ever to have walked the earth. Their teachings and examples were so controversial, so far off the beaten path, that many in their presence did not know what to make of them. Still, all who had the honor of being in the presence of these enlightened men could sense they were witnesses to Someone Magnificent. Then, observe the religious culture of the times and societies in which they lived: the Pharisees were self-righteous, hypocritical, blind slaves of a "law" that they could not even comprehend yet that they followed in order to look "holy" before other men. And the Buddha was a man in search the root cause of suffering in order that he might end it once and for all, and during his quest, he tried the fasting and other ritualistic techniques of the spiritual seekers in the forest. Did either man, however, follow in the footsteps of the accepted relious establishments of the time? The answer is obvious to anyone observing this with the least bit of objectivity (i.e. without the conditioned eye bent toward holding onto the idea that these men somehow accomplished something that we cannot).
Both Christ and Buddha did something remarkably simple that for its simplicity is totally incomprehensible to most of us now: both men observed what was not working (e.g. the rules and observances of the Pharisees and the practices and rituals of the spiritual seekers in the forest) for humans in their attempt to connect with the Ultimate, and both men then dropped what was not working and made their own way. They did not imitate. They Created. Each one then set out to show us that we are Creators as well.
Oh, look at us now! We meet in churches or temples or whatever we want to call them, and we do our damnedest to box in the teachings of these men by calling them greater than us and accepting that we are "Children of a Lesser God" through our creation of stale doctrines, dead mythologies, and empty rituals that we say Jesus and Buddha commanded us to believe and imitate without questioning. If we do not obey these (and notice that everyone has their own interpretation of these - who in the world is right?), then we will be punished with eternal damnation and suffering. Now this, to me, sounds like the old, unoriginal, imitation-worn, self-serving ideas of beings who have decided to be both "in and of this world." This sounds like human history to me, and Christ and Buddha, we have already observed, were Creators, not imitators. Therefore, how could I possibly accept (if I am observing properly) that they would reduce themselves to being the way humans have chosen to be for millenia by becoming imitations of how the rest of us choose to act and see the world (i.e. our desire for the comfort of routine [doctrines and rituals], our resistance to change [doctrines and rituals], our fear of dying [lack of true connection with God], our belief in punishment for those who wrong us [mythologies], our need for "rules" or "laws" to tell us what to do [doctrines and rituals], our longing to judge those who do not follow these "laws" [doctrines], etc. etc.)?
No, what we have reduced the lives of Christ and Buddha to is abhorrent. In our desire to imitate, we would have them be imitators of our imitations. You can all deny this until Kingdom Come (although Its already Here), but our world and its present condition, and the suffering condition of human beings all over it, is a testament to the shallow "herd" mentality to which we have attached, and enslaved, ourselves. Do not even dare to try to tell me that we do not have the power of Christ and Buddha to do something as simple as observe that what we are doing does not work for Who We Say We Want To Be. If we just looked at everything within and outside of us without justifying what we see, we would become "the Way" that Christ knew himself to be because we would no longer be wasting our real powers on denying what is True. If we just look at ourselves without fear of what we may find, we will see (it is guaranteed by God) why we have created such a mess. In that same moment, we will know exactly how to create ourselves and the world anew.
Imitating the truth that others would force upon you will always bring you back to the same pain, selfishness, misery, and suffering that comes with not allowing the Soul to express Itself and create Who You Are based on the Eternal Truths only It can reveal to you. Like Christ and Buddha, we are all Glorious Creators because we are all a part of the Ultimate Creator - God.
Therefore, the next time you feel spiritually starved and you return to the same futile search for your truth by asking others to tell you what to do about the suffering you are experiencing, create a new option, a new path, by going within and allowing yourself to remember the Truth by tapping into your True Nature that understands that imitation is death and Creation is Life. If you persist at this, you will come to accept what is (right now, in your present condition) so painfully obvious, and yet, so consistently denied by the mind: I hurt only because I have chosen to suppress what is Real and Original about me in favor of creating a false life of imitation of what everyone else tells me is real. This insight is the cocoon in which your butterfly nature will, with patient self-observation, create you anew with the wings of the Magnificent expression of Your Truth.
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