We come to this life knowing what we are getting into. In order to conform to what is expected we know that we must forget what we are. If we do not forget what we are we must reject the conditioning that is necessary to assume our given identity. Some reject this conditioning because it requires them to live without compassion. When we travel into our body we encounter the challenges that others believe to be true. These limitations cannot exist within the child’s ‘whole mind’. The child’s rejection of evil may be perceived as ‘disobedience’.
A child’s mind is conditioned by first giving it a name which it is conditioned to respond to. Others then use this name as the medium to communicate commands and beliefs which gradually create a mind for the ‘identity’ to be populated with universal beliefs. The first belief is the name that is planted within the mind, to claim ownership and dominion over that mind. Like a conquering army the name is planted like a flag declaring ‘who’ owns the child’s mind. The name takes ownership of the child’s mind but does not take possession of it until there is a conditioned response.
The conditioning of a child’s mind is like the formatting of the hard drive of a computer. Mankind is collectively working to improve life. Some are only working to improve the life of the man in the mirror. This selfishness is what creates those who have more and those who have less or nothing at all. Each time we have an experience which by comparison is judged to be good or bad we may criticise or fight against what we perceive to be flawed or inferior. We regularly engage in fighting and complaining which implies that things could be done differently.
To ensure that each child conforms to the prevailing authority they must be conditioned to forget what they are ‘in truth’. It is only by generically conditioning a child’s mind that they will agree to exist as others do. If the new born child does not ‘accept what it is told’ it cannot compliantly behave with consistency. Criticism can prevent equal participation and creates division. To reject our given identity would mean that our conscious mind does not have a ‘fixed perspective’ which is necessary to incarcerate the child within the contexts of ‘I’ and ‘me’.
Without a fixed perspective we cannot create a mind for ‘who’ we are expected to be. The ego mind requires a paradigm in which to exist. The paradigm is commonly referred to as the ‘identity’. If we do not accept our given identity we may be perceived to be ‘mentally handicapped’ or to have ‘learning difficulties’. The perceived mental illness or disadvantage is simply down to there being no ‘me’ to form a relationship with what the rest of what humanity perceives to be reality. That reality does not exist without the believer’s acceptance of ‘universal beliefs’.
The universal beliefs create, define and sustain what we perceive to be reality. If the child does not accept or ‘fully accept’ the identity it cannot create the conscious mind that is necessary to fully constrain and incarcerate the conscious perspective. Without an ego mind there is no place for beliefs to exist. This is because beliefs can only exist within a ‘mind’ but, not being truth, they cannot exist within the ‘whole mind’. They cannot exist within the whole mind because if beliefs had dominion over the whole mind we would still believe the earth was flat.
So, to avoid the limited and generic behavioural expression that is evident in species such as animals, birds and insects, the beliefs exist within a false and quarantined mind. Drum roll for the ego. The ego mind is constantly evolving and with each realisation it achieves greater ‘understanding’. Universal beliefs enable the believer to experience the collective hallucination that is defined by the concept ‘reality’. No matter which sex, colour, nationality or religion we are born into there is an agreed system for perceiving a common reality that is sustained by the shared beliefs.
Each new generation can only sustain what we collectively perceive to be reality by worshipping the beliefs that define that reality. Our acceptance of the authorised beliefs, blind us to any greater truth that exists beyond those existential parameters. Unless we wish to be in conflict with ‘what is’ it is pretty futile to bitch and complain. Bitching and complaining just means that we have not realised that the reality we complain about cannot continue to exist without our faith in it. Our faith is our belief. If we stop perceiving what we define to be wrong we cannot fight it.
What we fight against and define to be ‘wrong’ gives life and sustenance to the wrong we perceive. Perception is not vision. Perception is the projection of a meaning that our thoughts and feelings are responding to. If we did not define what is then our feelings cannot form a relationship with that judgement. Before we can get upset about ‘what is’ we must judge ‘what is’ to be less than what it should be. We are not upset by ‘what is’ we are upset by our own judgement of it. It was written and it has been said ‘judge that you be not judged’.
A hallucination is to see something that is not there. If we stop worshipping our beliefs as truth we will realise what they conceal. With realisation we see that what we judged was not what we judged it to be. As long as we worship our existing beliefs we only respond to our beliefs and not what those beliefs represent. When we create something different that exists in ‘truth’ we transcend the constraints of existing beliefs. This is why it is unnecessary to fight, oppose or reject what is popularly perceived and believed to be reality.
We can only believe what we do not know. As history demonstrates all beliefs eventually cease to exist. Evolution does not fight what is it replaces it. If we have compassion for others our creative expression will not cause harm or suffering. If we do not have compassion for others we lack the wisdom to understand the effects of our creative expression on our life and the lives of others. Until we start doing things differently things cannot change. If we know a different way that does not hurt others then we can lead by example not by criticism.
If we need to persuade others then we deceive them and we betray our self. We are betraying our own truth when live without compassion because in truth we are compassion.
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