Perry J
19-03-2011, 10:37 PM
If you always keep yourself on the surface, you always run into contradictions everywhere.
Many people make a game of this. They refuse to go deeper, to a level where things could be explained, but they insist on arguing…”what you just said does NOT correspond to accepted theories, because…”, and on and on it goes, they seem never to get tired of it. No matter what you say, they always find one line that they mark with a red pen, and they never see the wholeness of what you want to say. If you are patient, and even engage in them to make them see that context, how things connect to this or that, they immediately find one new line they focus on: “NO! This is not so, instead you should say…”
Eckhart Tolle gave me this insight recently. He also gave a parallel with religion: How all World religions seem to be in insurmountable conflict with each other on the surface, but if you go deeper you find they all coincide – they all say the same thing. This is a wonderful insight, and I could tell you for example how Rumi’s poems are all in harmony with anything Jesus could have said, which shows how Islam is not at all in a real conflict with Christianity (!)
See what happened? I just made a controversial statement. Many people stop reading here to create an opposing statement, to bash me with. This is easily done.
And this is the dualistic game. All participators may have a common task to reach the Truth, but it always goes like this.
Don’t let these spoilers steal energy from you. They are everywhere, and they all refuse to let go of the dualistic conflict. And the ego feeds on conflict. It identifies in these mental structures of conflict, and if you point to some peaceful inner unity, the ego feels threatened, because you have put its identity at stake.
They seem to always locate all areas where work for peace is going on, and they begin their counterwork to spoil it. They are not necessarily aggressive, but they seem to keep the collective consciousness at a level where conflict and dangers are serious stuff that we must not forget, much more important than that “inner peace”, that they ridicule at first chance.
But it’s important only because it feeds the ego.
The surface is the battlefield of antichrist. Don’t go deeper it says. And definitely do NOT go within yourself...
Many people make a game of this. They refuse to go deeper, to a level where things could be explained, but they insist on arguing…”what you just said does NOT correspond to accepted theories, because…”, and on and on it goes, they seem never to get tired of it. No matter what you say, they always find one line that they mark with a red pen, and they never see the wholeness of what you want to say. If you are patient, and even engage in them to make them see that context, how things connect to this or that, they immediately find one new line they focus on: “NO! This is not so, instead you should say…”
Eckhart Tolle gave me this insight recently. He also gave a parallel with religion: How all World religions seem to be in insurmountable conflict with each other on the surface, but if you go deeper you find they all coincide – they all say the same thing. This is a wonderful insight, and I could tell you for example how Rumi’s poems are all in harmony with anything Jesus could have said, which shows how Islam is not at all in a real conflict with Christianity (!)
See what happened? I just made a controversial statement. Many people stop reading here to create an opposing statement, to bash me with. This is easily done.
And this is the dualistic game. All participators may have a common task to reach the Truth, but it always goes like this.
Don’t let these spoilers steal energy from you. They are everywhere, and they all refuse to let go of the dualistic conflict. And the ego feeds on conflict. It identifies in these mental structures of conflict, and if you point to some peaceful inner unity, the ego feels threatened, because you have put its identity at stake.
They seem to always locate all areas where work for peace is going on, and they begin their counterwork to spoil it. They are not necessarily aggressive, but they seem to keep the collective consciousness at a level where conflict and dangers are serious stuff that we must not forget, much more important than that “inner peace”, that they ridicule at first chance.
But it’s important only because it feeds the ego.
The surface is the battlefield of antichrist. Don’t go deeper it says. And definitely do NOT go within yourself...