Our virtual reality may not be generated by a computer,
but by our Mind, our constantly flowing thoughts and emotions. And so we are
living in the imprisonment of our thoughts and feelings’ Matrix.
The program of the
spiritual seeking consists of two components:- The creation of the the mosaic image of Truth
- The realization of the spiritual seeking as a spiritual scenario
The Mosaic Image of Truth
The Mind is unable to imagine the existence of a wisdom that
is not manifested in thoughts, accumulated knowledge and experience. The Mind attempts to make an image
of reality from the accumulated spiritual knowledge and experience, trying to
create the mosaic image of Truth. The Mind, however, always picks the stones
for the mosaic from external sources.
That is
how the Mind puts one piece of the mosaic next to the other until it believes
that the image is complete, and the Mind is familiar with the whole Truth. That
moment, though, will never come, because the image created from the bits and
pieces borrowed from others is not the real “truth;” it is only the truth as
the Mind imagines it to be. As it is not possible to express the Truth with
concepts, the image is false right from the beginning.
The Spiritual Scenario
The
mosaic image of Truth is realized as a spiritual scenario in our daily life.
There may be a number of selfish motivations behind the hunger for experience
and quest for completeness, but the spiritual scenarios are rather standard, so
they contain lots of similar elements. Let us see a few of these:
One of the common elements in the spiritual
scenarios is that every spiritual seeker
finds himself or herself a philosophy, a study, a Master, who is very close to
him/her. This is
the starting point. Some of the spiritual seekers believe that the starting point
for them is the teachings of Eckhart Tolle: e. g. the endeavour for finding the
Now, the Present. Others are attracted to the teachings of Osho, Mooji, or
Krishnamurti, and so on.
The second important common element of spiritual
scenarios is based upon this. The Mind
creates an image about the philosophy for itself, trying to comprehend it and
weave from it the clothes for the spiritual seeker.
The
clothes vary to a great extent, depending on the chosen starting philosophy and
Master. But the fabric always consists of the expectations; how I am supposed
to behave, what methods I should use in order to see the spiritual experience
offered by the philosophy chosen. For instance: how can I be present in the Now
in accordance with the teachings of my master?
A common feature of the spiritual garments thus
created is that the owners all expect from the clothes to elevate them from the
ranks of the average crowd, helping them to some imagined beauty, imagined
love, imagined happiness, some positive experience, positive identity. The mind in this way covers up
the spiritual seeker desire for unity, replacing that desire with these false
emotions. The owner will be attracted to such a nicely manipulated garment, not
wishing to take it off and leave it behind, as such an outfit lends a powerful
sense of false identity to the spiritual seeker.
The seeker of truth (that is, a real seeker, and not
just someone attempting to implement a scenario rich in spiritual experience)
will, however seem through all spiritual scenarios and the spiritual
smokescreen thus created.
The Downfall of the Mind
The Mind must
therefore fall, as it is against the evolutionary development of the
Consciousness. The
downfall of the Mind may take place in two ways: a beautiful, dignified way or
a painful one, full of suffering. But both ways will take us to the same goal:
the awakening Consciousness.
We are very well acquainted with the journey
full of pain. A basic aspiration of every Mind is growth,
to become larger, stronger and more solid in the world of forms and shapes. It
wants to posses more, to get higher and higher in the hierarchic structure of
the world, and it wants to conquer a larger and larger territory. Under the
spell of the forms and shapes, the Mind devotes all its energy to make the
forms constant, disregarding the only constant law of the forms and shapes: every form is transient, and everything is
subject to birth and death.
The Mind intends to
elevate the forms (including its own form) to eternity, which is impossible.
This intention of the Mind will be the
source of all sufferings, because its world of forms and shapes shall collapse
like a sandcastle after a while, until death snatches away the last of the
forms: its body from it. It came empty-handed from Nothing, and that is how it
is going to return there. The only
treasure it could take along with it is its wakefulness, but the Mind
considers that worthless in the world of forms and shapes, as it was not a
means of increasing the tyrannical power the Mind.
The better, more attractive
way leading to the re-discovery of the Consciousness, begins around the middle
of the human life, when the individual, under the effects of their experience, tends
to recognize the operating mechanisms of the Mind and
realizes how tyrannical the Mind is. The person then turns away from forms and
shapes towards transcendental world, free of forms. That is what one of the
most famous psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, called the spiritual birth of man.
The Spiritual Birth of Man
Thespiritual birth is what permanently leads us out of the Matrix. That spiritual
birth starts with the recognition that most people only make in articulo mortis: that turning away
from the Consciousness and identification with the forms and shapes is the
reason for all our sufferings. A person making that recognition gradually gives
up their identification with the forms and shapes, and steps back from the
whirling of the world into a more quiet area. In this way they will be more
alert to themselves and their environment. The clear sky of Consciousness will be
contaminated by fewer and fewer clouds, giving way to the return to the
Consciousness.
In the space of Consciousness, in the state of
pure consciousness the person recognizes and clearly experiences that Mind is a fraud. The Mind calls itself
real and the only existing ”Self,” though it is nothing more than a conceptual
product, the continually changing content of the space of Consciousness that
diverts our attention from experiencing the only reality: the awakening of
Consciousness.
The spiritual ”newborn” in the pure state of Consciousness,
in meditation, in the wakeful state of focusing on itself, seeks and searches
that complaining and arrogant, constantly chatting Mind in its mind, but finds
it nowhere. The individual penetrates all the way to the source of that voice,
but when they attempt to grab it, it slips away and vanishes. The internal monologue, the voice of Mind
stops and disappears, it is lost into No-thingness, and the person experiences
that there is not other ”Self” but the Consciousness. The individual will then
realize that the only natural remedy against the paranoid overgrowing of the Mind
is wakefulness and attention.
This is
the beginning of a life of different quality: experiencing the Consciousness,
which is salvation for the entire mankind. First as pre-historic people we
recognized our bodily needs, in the Middle Ages we experienced extreme
emotions, in the modern age we worship the power of the mind, and now we are on
the threshold of a new period in evolution. We recognize that beyond the realm
of sensations, emotions and thoughts there is a wakeful, attentive, loving,
conscious, factual ”something”–and that ”Something,” that Miracle is me.
This is how we can find ourselves outside of the
Matrix, beyond all programs of the Mind.
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A very insightful article. You see Mind as not the real thing, and explain the problem very well, but have you encountered the idea that Mind is a reflection of something greater, and that the place you speak of as wakeful, attentive, loving, is only a passage to that greater, and that even that greater is not the end? I do apologize for the self-promotion involved in including a link to an article I wrote and published, but it demonstrates the above idea:
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