After a couple years of touching base with each other
I finally had to point out what he must have been missing in my articles and messages…
So with all seriousness… I reached out…
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Aloha my long time friend ,
I have enjoyed our messages
over the long time we’ve been doing so…
Your good will to help the many kids are both
a Noble act and the perfect expression of ‘Divinity’.
I do not want to distract you from your religious beliefs…
But you should know that:
Although I am deeply into ‘Spirit’…
My views on organized religions and “God”
have ‘transcended’ greatly since I was first catechism’d a catholic
as a young boy over 50 years ago.
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There are many commonalities with most
spiritual traditions and religions…
For these,
I am inspired to point out how all these different perspectives
are all pointing toward the same ultimate Truths…
However,
Somewhere along the way…
Those once noble aspects of organized religions
have strayed far and away from those morals and virtues.
Instead of religions Uniting all of humanity…
It has become a devastating force that has
‘divided’ humanity with the conquest of
Conquering and killing anyone that didn’t believe in the
ineffable aspects of their ‘projections’ of what “God” is.
Most of the world’s wars were fought over naïve projections
of what different people thought “God” was
and that only their way of praying to the “God”
that they made up was the only way to live.
So,
In the most UN-holiest of ways.
People all over the world have been killing and
torturing to death innocent people
in the name of their projections
of an all loving ‘pro-life’ “god”.
If you look back in the entire history of humanity:
Never did the Buddhist or other
Non-Theological Common Sense Spiritual traditions
ever start a war over a man made up projection of ‘god’.
(mainly because they are not distracted by such imaginations)
Sure,
They do bicker and debate their interpretations of
their ancient scriptures…
But,
It’s mostly done mindfully with loving kindness.
I strongly believe that torturing just one person to death
is wrong.
But the ‘church’ has the blood of torturing to death
over 100 million innocent people,
all for the mistaken idea that they were “evil” …
Evil, the ‘devil’… are just another man made up ideas.
Mostly,
The church tortured these people because
they had what the church wanted:
Property, wealth, political power, jealousy, paranoia…
And thought that many women must be witches…
The other insidious aspect of the ‘church’ was
if they thought an artist, musician or poet
was creating what they mis thought was ‘evil’…
They made contraptions that would break their hands.
They burned alive humanities smartest academics
who dare spoke of the obvious…
That the universe did not orbit earth, ‘god’s’ chosen planet.
Galileo was under house arrest and forbidden
to even look through his own telescope invention,
While at the same time the pope bought his
best and latest telescopes
to view the “heavens” …
It took over 500 years for a newer pope to apologize.
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I had to ask myself many decades ago:
“If the church is wrong about torturing to death
over 100 million innocent people…
What else are they wrong about”?!
This inspired me to look as deeply as possible into
a deeper, less naïve version of ‘Divinity’.
I have been deeply practicing an
in-depth Spiritual Practice for many decades.
I have come to much deeper understand of the concepts of
“God”.
These perspectives I’ve reached through spiritually based
psychology, philosophies and during the experiences of
the higher states of human consciousness
through very deep meditation.
What I have learned is:
The concept of “God” is so far and beyond any reference
that most humans will ever know in the normal course of their life…
Manly on account of these ‘Wisdoms’ are not widely available
to the everyday common person.
It’s not their fault,
but…
There is a deeper way to understand the concepts of “God”
that transform it from a ‘belief’ system…
To a Knowing…
But for all but the fully Enlightened ones…
This concept will remain….
Ineffable.
Words could never describe what “God” really is.
All concepts of ‘God’ come from the imaginations of man.
It requires a life long Practice just to gain the Insights
that start to reveal, by experience
the True Nature of “God”…
and
our own True Nature.
Once “Self-Realized” …
It becomes obvious that there is absolutely
no separation between the two…
Divinity… is “Non-Dual”.
The bible does have some virtue and values…
If I could offer any advice for religions is:
To make it known that the
myths, magic, and miracles of the bible
are simply ‘metaphors’ to help explain
the ineffable nature of Divinity’.
The self-defeating fact that the church demands that
these naive man made up fantasies are the literal truth
and to not get dupped into stating so is punishable by being
roasted and tortured in ‘hell’ for the rest of forever…
By an all loving ‘pro-life’ ‘god.
You have to admit…
That’s a contradicting perspective.
Most non-theological spiritual traditions include a lot of
metaphoric stories to help explain the unexplainable
ineffable nature of ‘Divinity’…
But to demand that stories that are literally
all made up by man to be taken as the ‘literal truth’…
Is a devastating mis-service to humanity.
Because of that and many other issues with the
out dated concepts the church still promotes,
countless people are leaving the confines of
the limiting aspects of the church.
Which is a shame because,
It is our inherent human nature
to strive to find a connection to a part of “us”
that is much larger and ‘divine’
than we normally experience in this life.
The story of Jesus is a great one…
My favorite quote is:
“Do onto others that you would have them do onto you”.
This sentiment is expressed in a number of other religions.
But again, the story of Jesus…
It’s just a story that took over 400 years to develop into
what most people still take as their unshakable ‘belief’…
It’s fine to believe in something if you wish…
But,
Just the act of believing really really hard
does not make it fact or real or the Truth.
The truths are:
In the time in history when the bible states when
all these ‘stories’ were happening…
There were many ‘holy men’, Saints, Sages, mystics, shamans, Rinpoche’s,
Swamies, Ajahns, spiritual mentors, teachers, wise men…
All from a wide circle of geological and ethnicities…
They all had greatly varying perspectives
of how to connect with ‘Divinity’…
Yet,
Like spokes on a spiritual wheel of Dharma…
They all pointed towards the same ineffable direction.
In the bible,
they tell the story of how ‘Jesus’ obtained the ‘Christ body of light’…
This seemingly miracle is also witnessed in a few other traditions,
such as in Dzogchen when an Enlightened Master obtains
the “Rainbow Body”
and transcends this life while alive in deep meditation.
In many Hindu traditions,
an Enlightened Master can perform “Maha Samadhi”
as Swami Saraswati did in the presence of his disciples
in 5 December 2009.
The fact is:
There were countless ‘holy men’ and or Enlightened Masters
from before the Buddha to the present day
that learned from intense experience
some of the aspects the bible portrays in
the character of ‘Jesus’ to have.
However,
It is very much a distracting dis-service to humanity
for the church to still attempt to dupe their desperate followers
with the heaps of non-sense they still demand their flock to take
as the literal truth…
When the truth is…
They made it all up.
There is plenty of aspects of ‘Divinity’ that are fascinating
and fulfilling that don’t require one to be dupped into mis-believing.
Perhaps as time goes on…
A more ‘progressive’ approach can be found to teach ‘Divinity’….
For me…
I have found that “Path”.
I hope that,
with an open mind and a creative progressive approach,
you can find a way to express ‘Divinity’
without the excessive distractions that so ingrained in the church.
There is a ‘Way’…
I am confident you will find it by ‘Transcending’ to these
deeper more honest perspectives
while ‘Including’ the parts that don’t require
misleading ‘mythic literal’ coercion.
Again,
You are truly a living example of how ‘Divinity’ is expressed in action.
I can find no higher way to express how inspiring that is.
Amen.
Namaste
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The strong ‘Faith’ people have with their religion
is a bond that is not likely to be transcended …
even when a Higher Deeper ‘Way’ is shown…
To the True “Believer”… it won’t be seen.
The challenges of this life are far too great for many to pause long enough
to take that chance that there is a more refined ‘Way’ to understand Divinity
than what they had believed in all their life.
By whatever means one has in this life just to get thru another day…
That will be good enough….
It’s gonna have to be good enough,
because there is no way to shine a brighter light on the only light they know.
Besides…
Whatever comes after this life… Is Ineffable.
Without the ‘Right Effert’ of becoing Enlightened or close to it…
There is nothing in this life that one can use to relate or even conceptualize
what our True Nature is and what’s to come after the ‘story’
of who we take to be ourselves transcends this life.
