By Robert Cinque
of Cinqueterra
The ego is born through an emotional recoil from its Origin. This
creates the appearance that God is distant and must be found. The
spiritual traditions of humanity are based on this search , this impulse
for re-union with the Divine. However, the search is based on an
illusion of separateness and isolation, which reduces God to a carrot on
an ego stick.
Throw away the stick. Eat the Carrot.
Creating the stick is an activity that produces “me” and then the
“world”. Authentic spiritual life is about recognizing this, not
“overcoming the ego”, which cannot be done anyway because it does not
exist in the first place, except in our imagination. This practice is
about Standing Prior to the birth of ego, not overcoming it after you
created it.
Try picking up an imaginary rock, it’s impossible. The disease of
egoity is self created and imaginary, too. When recoil is replaced with
emotional intimacy, the ego is pre-empted and cannot form.
The spiritual traditions exhort us to overcome this fleshly “ego” and
be more “spiritual” by identifying with our non-physical, “inner”
being. This so-called inner being is only yet another spontaneous
patterning of this Infinite Consciousness, Whatever That Is altogether,
but the inside of me is not the exclusive domain of truth, only That in
which the inner being is appearing is the Domain of Truth, the
Amphitheatre of the Heart.
I am in awe of This, I surrender in love to It. Ultimately, I am It,
or rather, It became “me”. Once it becomes clear that It is the basis
of “me”, all dilemma disappears, all searching, all “other”.
Authentic spiritual life is about recognizing what is already true,
not deifying my beliefs about it. Conventional spiritual practice is
like using a really excellent and detailed map of Detroit while you’re
trying to find your way around Paris. Conventional spiritual life
places enlightenment at the end of the journey, the search is finally
over, but authentic spiritual life places enlightenment at the
beginning, middle, and end, as the very foundation of human life. It is
based on heartfelt response ability, not belief, not technique, not
method, not mythology, not search.
It’s about Discovery.
Jesus is reported to have said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure a man finds buried in his field.”
Authentic spiritual life is about love, which is truth. Truth,
whatever it is altogether, is identical with Reality. What Is, is
True. Find out What Is, prior to mind, prior to “me”, prior to
“world”. That is the knockout punch and is why “you” won’t survive the
“journey” to “God”.
Conventional religious belief, from fundamentalism to New Age
metaphysics, is based on this search, on the “great path of return” to
God, to Unity and Wholeness. Sounds great, doesn’t it? It’s exciting,
adventurous, and romantic. The only problem with it is the fact that
you’re not actually lost, not actually separate from That which you
seek. The problem with conventional religious belief is that it
supports and enables a carrot on a stick. At best, ordinary religious
beliefs prepare us for authentic spiritual life if only by providing an
illusion to demolish.
Only God Exists and You are not separate from It.That’s the truth that sets the heart free, not that I need to be
saved from Original Sin or that I can have and do and be anything I
want, that happiness can be found in the manifestation of my desires.
Happiness cannot be found because it is not lost.
Happiness is the nature of Reality already and our spiritual
obligation is to realize it, not believe in it, not seek it in pleasure
or in the fulfillment of need and desire. Happiness is prior to pleasure
and need and desire, and everything else.
See for yourself.
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