Awareness, what I call 'consciousness', is a rare thing; but it is what we, as human BEINGS, are about.
No 'one' can be conscious when they are controlled by thoughts or beliefs; nor can they be conscious by rebelling against any particular thoughts, or substituting 'better' ones. Only by accepting Reality, AS IT IS can we wake up to consciousness. Trying to control Reality is laughable, and I'm continually amazed to see people live this lie! It's no wonder they suffer!
Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism are about waking up and finding one's try nature within Reality...recognizing and living conscious. There are no right or wrong beliefs; no right or wrong rituals or actions that make us whole. Nothing we DO is of any real importance (as most people believe); rather finding and living out our BEING is what the 'point' is; and here is where people stumble and fall; and where conventional religions fail us.
Conventional religions maintain the brainwashed state most people have been indoctrinated into as children. This isn't to say that their teachings don't have transformational 'energy', it's just that the power of the teachings are lost in misunderstanding. This distorted view has infected human beings for millenia (Buddha met it); allowing them to stay lost as 'human doings'. The challenge, for conventional religion, is to break free from it's traditional mis-conceptions, in order to recover it's transformational core that guides us to rediscover our BEING. This is the point of ALL religions...the transformation out of fragmentation into wholeness. Wholeness comes through awareness; and the participation (non-judgemental) that that awareness allows us to live moment by moment.
Conventional religions miss the point, not because they don't 'have' truth within their teachings, but because they miss truth in favor of controllable doings. It's the 'seeing' and 'hearing' of the truth, which must be the focus of religion. If any religion defends a particular set of beliefs; notably a set that makes it 'stand apart' from the rest, then you can be fairly certain it supports a fragmented view of Reality. From a theistic perspective, God loves EVERYTHING. If His church doesn't follow that comprehensive, unconditionally accepting example, it isn't His church.
Matthew
No 'one' can be conscious when they are controlled by thoughts or beliefs; nor can they be conscious by rebelling against any particular thoughts, or substituting 'better' ones. Only by accepting Reality, AS IT IS can we wake up to consciousness. Trying to control Reality is laughable, and I'm continually amazed to see people live this lie! It's no wonder they suffer!
Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism are about waking up and finding one's try nature within Reality...recognizing and living conscious. There are no right or wrong beliefs; no right or wrong rituals or actions that make us whole. Nothing we DO is of any real importance (as most people believe); rather finding and living out our BEING is what the 'point' is; and here is where people stumble and fall; and where conventional religions fail us.
Conventional religions maintain the brainwashed state most people have been indoctrinated into as children. This isn't to say that their teachings don't have transformational 'energy', it's just that the power of the teachings are lost in misunderstanding. This distorted view has infected human beings for millenia (Buddha met it); allowing them to stay lost as 'human doings'. The challenge, for conventional religion, is to break free from it's traditional mis-conceptions, in order to recover it's transformational core that guides us to rediscover our BEING. This is the point of ALL religions...the transformation out of fragmentation into wholeness. Wholeness comes through awareness; and the participation (non-judgemental) that that awareness allows us to live moment by moment.
Conventional religions miss the point, not because they don't 'have' truth within their teachings, but because they miss truth in favor of controllable doings. It's the 'seeing' and 'hearing' of the truth, which must be the focus of religion. If any religion defends a particular set of beliefs; notably a set that makes it 'stand apart' from the rest, then you can be fairly certain it supports a fragmented view of Reality. From a theistic perspective, God loves EVERYTHING. If His church doesn't follow that comprehensive, unconditionally accepting example, it isn't His church.
Matthew
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