[The postings this week are responding to several e-mails like the one re-posted yesterday. Those persons are suffering because “other persons”—persons who had been playing the co-dependent counterpart to their assumed roles—are no longer playing their part. As a result, these persons feel as if they are dying since the games they were playing can no longer be played the way they were in the past. It is that “past” that they are now clinging to because they love their past illusions and because they find the current opportunity to get real to be anathema.]
Many persons claim that the cause of their unhappiness involves others, the season, or the holiday. Those have nothing to do with the actual root causes which are being discussed this week:
Many persons claim that the cause of their unhappiness involves others, the season, or the holiday. Those have nothing to do with the actual root causes which are being discussed this week:
C. Sleeping Aids in the Form of Memories: Memories are “mental collections based in illusion.” The “memories” that allow persons to experience the most misery are those involving the most assumed identities and the most misperceptions. Why? “Things” were never the way that a false self thought they were, and they were never the way that any person imagined them to be. Bliss happens consistently only if in touch with reality. “Memories” are “mind” illusions that prevent being in touch with Reality.
D. Sleeping Aids in the Form of Dreams and Hopes: Hoping is about the future; dreaming is about the past or the future. Both past and future are illusions, and no one occupied with the past or the future has ever been happy in the present. Hoping and dreaming deal with the wishes and wants and desires of ego-states that always need someone else to support their assumed identities. That creates co-dependency, dependency robs persons of freedom, and people who have no freedom cannot possibly be happy.
E. Sleeping Aids in the Form of Imitation: Your culture inspires imitation; imitation inspires ego; and ego is the false “I,” the assumed false identities that persons adopt as they imitate the false identities assumed by other persons. Those of you who wrote e-mails describing your “seasonal suffering” all want to imitate those around you who still “have” their family and are still doing family things. Imitation inspires looking at others and comparing your circumstances to theirs, supporting your belief in the false concepts of “differentiation” and “loss.”
FACTOR #4: EGO-INSPIRED DIFFERENTIATION
Persons trapped in ego always differentiate. During the week, “Mondays are horrible” and “Tuesdays are a little better” and “Wednesday is Hump Day” and then two days later is “T.G.I.F.” Notice how that mental differentiating of one day from another affects moods and generates emotional reaction. Persons hand over control of how they feel throughout the week merely by the ego’s differentiating. Imagine the impact when that differentiation is expanded to an “annual basis”: to separate one day from the other 364 per year (and to suggest that one day is different from others and is “special” or “holy”) is illusion, but after years of programming and conditioning, non-attachment does not come easily. All misery and suffering and conflict is rooted in the concept of separation and duality, and differentiation is perpetuated by ego. Ego is always about differentiation: “I am different from you” (meaning, “I am better than you”), or “My religion / school / state / nationality / race / sexual preferences / political party / ideas / beliefs / concepts / dogma / spiritual teachings / perspectives / and attitudes are better than yours.” Conversely, another ego-state can manifest and assume “The Victim” role and differentiate by saying, “You have it better than I have it, but I deserve to have it better than you.” That is what is happening with those of you who have recently written about your “seasonal sadness.”
FACTOR #5: DENYING THE INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE IN THE RELATIVE
Misery always results when the agendas of personas prevent them from accepting the inevitability of change in the relative existence. How insane would it be to refuse to accept the law of gravity? Seeing the truth of certain laws can prevent attachment to illusion:
(a) The Law of Dynamics
Persons want body continuity, mind continuity, personality continuity, situation continuity, relationship continuity, etc. By nature, all except that which You Truly Are is limited and finite. The Law of Thermodynamics says that everything in the relative—including situations and relationships—is dynamic and changing. Elements that happen to come together cannot stay together permanently.
(b) The Law of Entropy
The Law of Entropy says that elements disorganize and organize and disorganize again. The Second Law of Thermodynamics proves that disorganization increases constantly. The law says that everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, and wears out all by itself. It is a law of nature. Apply the Law of Thermodynamics to relationships and see that nothing can stay the way it is (or, actually, only the way persons mistakenly thought that it was). Look objectively at the stages that most relationships go through (from stranger to acquaintance to friend to lover to spouse/partner to enemy to mortal enemy) and see that everything in the relative deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, and wears out…all by itself. Basic elements remanin, but no relative combinings are permanent.
(c) The Law of Atrophy
The Law of Atrophy, or The Law of Reduction, says that all shall waste away, wither, or deteriorate. That includes plants, animals, human bodies, and…many relationships. Look again at the typical pattern in human relationships and see this law working in that sequence of deterioration from stranger to lover to enemy. And stranger and lover and enemy were nothing more than roles being assumed and played by co-dependent persons. Yet you still believe that mirages are real. You are as attached to the adult lies about “the season” as children are attached to the lie you told them about Santa. You see others playing their roles and showing a phony image that seems most desirable to you, but you are not seeing what is happening behind closed doors on a day-to-day basis. How is that known? Because you weren’t even able to see what was happening behind your own closed doors. That which they are showing you is an image, and that which you are trying to cling to was an image.
Those who are miserable during “the holiday season” are yet trapped in false identities and they are mourning the fact that they can no longer play a phony role but are facing the opportunity to get real. Neither this season nor any holiday has anything to do with the actual roots of your unhappiness. Persons are so soundly asleep that something as shocking as your current experiences are required to awake you, but most persons hate shock and most persons have no desire to awake from their dreams. If you who have written are among those, so it is. If you want to end these experiences and enjoy the remainder of the manifestation via Realization, a simple seven-step path awaits. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
D. Sleeping Aids in the Form of Dreams and Hopes: Hoping is about the future; dreaming is about the past or the future. Both past and future are illusions, and no one occupied with the past or the future has ever been happy in the present. Hoping and dreaming deal with the wishes and wants and desires of ego-states that always need someone else to support their assumed identities. That creates co-dependency, dependency robs persons of freedom, and people who have no freedom cannot possibly be happy.
E. Sleeping Aids in the Form of Imitation: Your culture inspires imitation; imitation inspires ego; and ego is the false “I,” the assumed false identities that persons adopt as they imitate the false identities assumed by other persons. Those of you who wrote e-mails describing your “seasonal suffering” all want to imitate those around you who still “have” their family and are still doing family things. Imitation inspires looking at others and comparing your circumstances to theirs, supporting your belief in the false concepts of “differentiation” and “loss.”
FACTOR #4: EGO-INSPIRED DIFFERENTIATION
Persons trapped in ego always differentiate. During the week, “Mondays are horrible” and “Tuesdays are a little better” and “Wednesday is Hump Day” and then two days later is “T.G.I.F.” Notice how that mental differentiating of one day from another affects moods and generates emotional reaction. Persons hand over control of how they feel throughout the week merely by the ego’s differentiating. Imagine the impact when that differentiation is expanded to an “annual basis”: to separate one day from the other 364 per year (and to suggest that one day is different from others and is “special” or “holy”) is illusion, but after years of programming and conditioning, non-attachment does not come easily. All misery and suffering and conflict is rooted in the concept of separation and duality, and differentiation is perpetuated by ego. Ego is always about differentiation: “I am different from you” (meaning, “I am better than you”), or “My religion / school / state / nationality / race / sexual preferences / political party / ideas / beliefs / concepts / dogma / spiritual teachings / perspectives / and attitudes are better than yours.” Conversely, another ego-state can manifest and assume “The Victim” role and differentiate by saying, “You have it better than I have it, but I deserve to have it better than you.” That is what is happening with those of you who have recently written about your “seasonal sadness.”
FACTOR #5: DENYING THE INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE IN THE RELATIVE
Misery always results when the agendas of personas prevent them from accepting the inevitability of change in the relative existence. How insane would it be to refuse to accept the law of gravity? Seeing the truth of certain laws can prevent attachment to illusion:
(a) The Law of Dynamics
Persons want body continuity, mind continuity, personality continuity, situation continuity, relationship continuity, etc. By nature, all except that which You Truly Are is limited and finite. The Law of Thermodynamics says that everything in the relative—including situations and relationships—is dynamic and changing. Elements that happen to come together cannot stay together permanently.
(b) The Law of Entropy
The Law of Entropy says that elements disorganize and organize and disorganize again. The Second Law of Thermodynamics proves that disorganization increases constantly. The law says that everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, and wears out all by itself. It is a law of nature. Apply the Law of Thermodynamics to relationships and see that nothing can stay the way it is (or, actually, only the way persons mistakenly thought that it was). Look objectively at the stages that most relationships go through (from stranger to acquaintance to friend to lover to spouse/partner to enemy to mortal enemy) and see that everything in the relative deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, and wears out…all by itself. Basic elements remanin, but no relative combinings are permanent.
(c) The Law of Atrophy
The Law of Atrophy, or The Law of Reduction, says that all shall waste away, wither, or deteriorate. That includes plants, animals, human bodies, and…many relationships. Look again at the typical pattern in human relationships and see this law working in that sequence of deterioration from stranger to lover to enemy. And stranger and lover and enemy were nothing more than roles being assumed and played by co-dependent persons. Yet you still believe that mirages are real. You are as attached to the adult lies about “the season” as children are attached to the lie you told them about Santa. You see others playing their roles and showing a phony image that seems most desirable to you, but you are not seeing what is happening behind closed doors on a day-to-day basis. How is that known? Because you weren’t even able to see what was happening behind your own closed doors. That which they are showing you is an image, and that which you are trying to cling to was an image.
Those who are miserable during “the holiday season” are yet trapped in false identities and they are mourning the fact that they can no longer play a phony role but are facing the opportunity to get real. Neither this season nor any holiday has anything to do with the actual roots of your unhappiness. Persons are so soundly asleep that something as shocking as your current experiences are required to awake you, but most persons hate shock and most persons have no desire to awake from their dreams. If you who have written are among those, so it is. If you want to end these experiences and enjoy the remainder of the manifestation via Realization, a simple seven-step path awaits. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
