From a site visitor: “The elements of my body cannot be destroyed, but the unique combination of energy that manifested into my unique personality will someday be gone forever, right? I understand what you are saying about nothing being created or dying, but I would suggest that something is destroyed, and, as you say, will never come back again: that particular temporary unique manifestation of energy that resulted in a persona. Or, that unique vacuum.”
F.: “Unique personality”? Ha. That energy which manifested was distorted by your parents/guardians/teachers/priests/culture. Then, from that bastardized state the consciousness came to believe that some "unique personality" exists. The entire goal of the first three steps on the “journey to Realization” is to be rid of the illusions of body-mind-personality. Say you saw a mirage in the desert that was no longer visible at nightfall. Would you say that “something was destroyed,” or do you realize that it never was to begin with? Every persona—every false “personality” that is adopted—is the illusion that is at the very heart of all self-deception and lack of Self-Awareness, including notions about creation, destruction, the “I” being real, the “I” being unique, and the “I” coming to an end.
Neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed. If you truly understood “about nothing being created,” then you would realize that there can be no such thing as “destruction” either, any more than there can be any such thing as “unique” or “different from.” Too, there is no “unique manifestation of energy that resulted in a persona.” The conscious-energy manifests but soon becomes bastardized and then that bastardization results in the assumption of personas as identities. Yet that’s not unique. That’s the case with 95% or more of the persons who wander about the planet.
Matter, such as what some might call a steel girder, is really a swirling mass of energy. Since neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed, how could a steel girder or anything else be destroyed? It can't. The beam might be left to rust, and eventually the elements that seemed to form a space will return to their original “state,” but again, nothing was created and nothing was destroyed in the cycle. So it is with “humans.” Air, elements and energy merely cycle, but persons assume that false appearances are real. Few ever realize that appearances and perceptions are never real. When the consciousness is no longer manifested, then all that is "gone" is an image that was once in the "mind" of certain persons who were witnessing inaccurately. Thus, few will ever understand THAT which really is. Most bodies will be placed in graves or cremated without persons ever having realized that the “dangerous snake” they thought they were seeing and that caused such discomfort or fear or anger or a sense of threat was nothing more than a “harmless rope.”
Finally, to understand the unicity is to be free of all false sense of uniqueness that the ego generates. To understand the functioning of the totality is to be free of the notion of creation and destruction. To be free of the notions of creation and destruction is to be free of other notions about “creators” and about “creators that also punish or reward or destroy,” but since billions on the planet are attached to the dogma that evolved from the concepts of Abraham, few will ever be truly free. They will, instead, be dependent on leaders who tell them what to think, what to believe and what to do, unquestioningly. The power of programming is revealed when it is seen how many billions do what they're told to do by a very few.
Persons exposed to those teachings will have tremendous difficulty reaching Full Realization and knowing that nothing is created nor destroyed and that nothing can be sustained. THAT which is…is, period. It needs no "one" to sustain it. It will sustain. The desire of those who identify with the body, however, is to “have faith” that they were created, to “have faith” that they can be “saved” or “sustained” forever, and to “have faith” that they can escape destruction or punishment if they are “good” and not “bad” (as variously and varyingly defined by their leaders). See that 6 billion of the 6.5 billion people on the planet adhere to one of the three sets of dogma that evolved from the concepts of Abraham and you’ll see why few will ever understand that the concepts of “creation,” “destruction,” “punishment,” “good,” “bad,” “reward” and “uniqueness” are all lies. And in their arrogance and attachment to their beliefs, they will continue to be miserable and will continue to do all possible to kill “others” so that their particular group can gain influence and control and power across the planet. So it is, but you have the opportunity to re-purify the consciousness by casting aside all ideas and emotions and beliefs and then live in an AS IF fashion until the consciousness unmanifests. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
F.: “Unique personality”? Ha. That energy which manifested was distorted by your parents/guardians/teachers/priests/culture. Then, from that bastardized state the consciousness came to believe that some "unique personality" exists. The entire goal of the first three steps on the “journey to Realization” is to be rid of the illusions of body-mind-personality. Say you saw a mirage in the desert that was no longer visible at nightfall. Would you say that “something was destroyed,” or do you realize that it never was to begin with? Every persona—every false “personality” that is adopted—is the illusion that is at the very heart of all self-deception and lack of Self-Awareness, including notions about creation, destruction, the “I” being real, the “I” being unique, and the “I” coming to an end.
Neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed. If you truly understood “about nothing being created,” then you would realize that there can be no such thing as “destruction” either, any more than there can be any such thing as “unique” or “different from.” Too, there is no “unique manifestation of energy that resulted in a persona.” The conscious-energy manifests but soon becomes bastardized and then that bastardization results in the assumption of personas as identities. Yet that’s not unique. That’s the case with 95% or more of the persons who wander about the planet.
Matter, such as what some might call a steel girder, is really a swirling mass of energy. Since neither matter nor energy can be created nor destroyed, how could a steel girder or anything else be destroyed? It can't. The beam might be left to rust, and eventually the elements that seemed to form a space will return to their original “state,” but again, nothing was created and nothing was destroyed in the cycle. So it is with “humans.” Air, elements and energy merely cycle, but persons assume that false appearances are real. Few ever realize that appearances and perceptions are never real. When the consciousness is no longer manifested, then all that is "gone" is an image that was once in the "mind" of certain persons who were witnessing inaccurately. Thus, few will ever understand THAT which really is. Most bodies will be placed in graves or cremated without persons ever having realized that the “dangerous snake” they thought they were seeing and that caused such discomfort or fear or anger or a sense of threat was nothing more than a “harmless rope.”
Finally, to understand the unicity is to be free of all false sense of uniqueness that the ego generates. To understand the functioning of the totality is to be free of the notion of creation and destruction. To be free of the notions of creation and destruction is to be free of other notions about “creators” and about “creators that also punish or reward or destroy,” but since billions on the planet are attached to the dogma that evolved from the concepts of Abraham, few will ever be truly free. They will, instead, be dependent on leaders who tell them what to think, what to believe and what to do, unquestioningly. The power of programming is revealed when it is seen how many billions do what they're told to do by a very few.
Persons exposed to those teachings will have tremendous difficulty reaching Full Realization and knowing that nothing is created nor destroyed and that nothing can be sustained. THAT which is…is, period. It needs no "one" to sustain it. It will sustain. The desire of those who identify with the body, however, is to “have faith” that they were created, to “have faith” that they can be “saved” or “sustained” forever, and to “have faith” that they can escape destruction or punishment if they are “good” and not “bad” (as variously and varyingly defined by their leaders). See that 6 billion of the 6.5 billion people on the planet adhere to one of the three sets of dogma that evolved from the concepts of Abraham and you’ll see why few will ever understand that the concepts of “creation,” “destruction,” “punishment,” “good,” “bad,” “reward” and “uniqueness” are all lies. And in their arrogance and attachment to their beliefs, they will continue to be miserable and will continue to do all possible to kill “others” so that their particular group can gain influence and control and power across the planet. So it is, but you have the opportunity to re-purify the consciousness by casting aside all ideas and emotions and beliefs and then live in an AS IF fashion until the consciousness unmanifests. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
