Love, Freedom and the Unknown
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I often ask myself why is it so easy to indulge in self–aggrandisement, whether through the accumulation of money and materiality or charades of religiosity with its rituals and asceticism. Why is the illusion of the self as the ‘I’, separate and special from the rest, so alluring?
In this lies the answer to why so many of us veer far from the example of Jesus; The self; the I; the ego, is so threatened by oneness (because oneness inevitably shatters the illusion of the self) that it turns the very practices that were offered as means to embodying oneness into self-enhancing rituals that bring acknowledgement, recognition, and sometimes power and position to the self; the very self that the practices were intended to deny.
The irony of it all is that Oneness IS the origin and the return of everything. It is the highest state of being; it is ultimately where we want to be; what we yearn to be; but we are so caught in the illusion – trapped in a cage less prison that we do not perceive and thus cannot embody our natural state of being. As Krishnamurti put it, ‘the fragment cannot become the whole; yet the fragment is always trying to be the whole.’ The self must relinquish fragmentation, otherwise stated as ‘surrender’ then wholeness simply is. There is nothing to become; Oneness is the state of All that Is.
In this lies the answer to why so many of us veer far from the example of Jesus; The self; the I; the ego, is so threatened by oneness (because oneness inevitably shatters the illusion of the self) that it turns the very practices that were offered as means to embodying oneness into self-enhancing rituals that bring acknowledgement, recognition, and sometimes power and position to the self; the very self that the practices were intended to deny.
The irony of it all is that Oneness IS the origin and the return of everything. It is the highest state of being; it is ultimately where we want to be; what we yearn to be; but we are so caught in the illusion – trapped in a cage less prison that we do not perceive and thus cannot embody our natural state of being. As Krishnamurti put it, ‘the fragment cannot become the whole; yet the fragment is always trying to be the whole.’ The self must relinquish fragmentation, otherwise stated as ‘surrender’ then wholeness simply is. There is nothing to become; Oneness is the state of All that Is.
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