Robin

Hab grad eine interesannte stelle in nem buch entdeckt und dachte ich teil das mal mit euch...


Now G. is here and I'm really starting to see that the most basic yet most important thing is the least recognized. And not the most important thing just in the waking-up sense, but in the sweet-dreams sense as well. And the reason I may be slow in realizing this is because the quality to which I refer has been so fully integrated in me for so long that I assume it's shared by all, or I've forgotten that it's not. ...
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as vast and incomprehensibly complex as the workings of things may appear to us, there is no such thing as big or small, simple or hard, many or few, to the perfect intelligence that governs all and is all, and I thing the thing I might have failed to notice is the fact that not everyone knows this and lives their life in accordance with it. I think the thing I might have forgotten along the way is that most people, including many of those around me, operate from the level of finite brain rather than infinite mind.
So there's the next piece in this ever-unfoling puzzle. It has somehow escaped my notice that most people function at an immeasurably inferior manner than that which is rightly theirs; beggars with a winning lottery ticket in an unchecked pocket. This isn't really an enlightment thing so much as a human development thing. This was duscussed in Damndest (ein andres buch von ihm..), but I can't be overemphasized--not mine, but Thy will be done; the will of Allah; Brahma is the charioteer--if you don't get this, you don't get anything. If this isn't your living reality, then you are, like most people, stuck in the ego-clad, nestling state. If so, my advice is this: Observe this state. Make a study of it as it appears in yourself and others. Turn the light of your mind upon it. See it everywhere. Learn to recognize the workings and reasonings of ego. Dissect thoughts, words and actions to find the kernel of fear within. To know the lie is to hate it; to see it is to slay it. There is no nobility in spiritual poverty. If you desire release from this state, you should pray for it. If you don't desire release from this state, you should pray for the desire. The nest isn't life, as anyone who has taken wing will attest.
Enlightenment, a fancy word for awake, is for every single person to arrive at eventually, whereas this higher, unbounded mode of being is here for whoever truly wants it. If you made a wishlist of anything and everything you could ever want from spiritual pursuits and practices, Humand Adulthood would fulfill it, or provide the means. Of course, most people are hopelessly locked into their lives and that's way something so natural and universally desirable is so rare, but there it is: Most people stop growing at around the age of ten or twelve and die in the nest they were born in. It would be easy to belive that many, if not most, of the woes of mankind, on both individual and societal levels, stem from this state of arrested development. Yes, it's as true of society as of the individuals that make up society. Look for yourself. Look at yourself. Look at the news, at politics, at religion. Look at education, healthcare, business, entertainment. Look at the why, and the why of the why. All you'll see is greed and vanity, the offspring of fear, all fear being, ultimately, the fear of no-self. Thumb through any magazine, flip through the channels of the TV, go wherever there are people, and you'll see nothing but a morbidly juvenile, fear-infected, stunted, runtish race over which Maya reigns supreme and unchallenged.
It's not that a better way is available and that most people fail to take advantage of it, but that a better way is at all times in full force and effect, and to function from the level of the puny seperate self is to work in opposition to it. In other words, it works in our lives not to the degree that we harness it or master it, but to the degree that we get out of its way.

- Jed McKenna , aus "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment"