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Spirituality And The Mind Of Mankind
Why do we as human beings choose to utilize the mind in order to discover if there is anything beyond the mind? Is there something truly sacred beyond the mind? To be clear, all the religious as well as the so-called spiritual people tend to resist and live in conflict with the things of the mind in an attempt to discover if there is the sacred. We struggle aimlessly to discover if there is anything beyond this life that can correct and prevent our destructive lives. So I am wondering, why not simply drop the mind all together. If the mind is the cause, the chaos and the destruction of this world, why do we insist on utilizing it as our means of problem-solving? Is it out of habit that for millions of years, man throughout history has reached into his mental faculties to solve his endless problems that seem to escalate instead of dissipating?
This enquiry has to be dealt with great clarity and the fullness of perception. Perhaps, in the wholeness of perception that transcends mind, there lies the answer to all our problems. This is something we must find out for ourselves. Not through ideologies of philosophy or any of the dogma of all the various world religions that have been formulated by the mind. Realize the fact; the mind of man has formulated all the religions of the world. That is rather obvious, is it not? This mind, this very instrument has created the problems and has entangled itself so deeply it can not find its way out of its own misery and sorrow.
Spiritual understanding transcends the ego.
So we are questioning and probing such a fundamental issue that warrants deep insight. Through politics and reform, we attempt to unite the division that is apparent in this world with great failure. All the politicians, religions and leaders of the world, categorically attempt to bridge the dissipation, discord and hatred that they themselves have caused and failed. We, as human beings, have caused all this destructiveness throughout the whole world. Not the animals, not the trees, but the ego of man, past and present. The mind of man, through his own making created the darkness of this world and can see no way out. Even our aim to change the world is without meaning. We are pressed by the urgency to find the solution but the more we try the more the mind simply creates greater chaos.
As human beings on this beautiful planet, we are doomed by our own destruction. Is this our inherent nature to disintegrate and destroy all that we touch? Is it because we lack sensitivity and compassion? Is this why we live such meaningless and passionless lives? All such questions must be probed, deeply.
If we, as human beings, are at all serious to discover a new life, a new course for our existence, surely we can no longer depend on anyone. For if you look at all the various religions of the world, it is rather obvious they do not know. They have all failed humanity. So, it is up to each of us to look within ourselves through clarity and the wholeness of perception. Only then will we discover a way of life that is in harmony with all life, with all of nature. This is the necessity of spirituality.
Spirituality is end of all conflict and sorrow.
If we are truly concerned with discovering if there is life beyond this mortality, we must learn to live in death. Death being the ending of all of yesterday and the history of man. Can you do that? Can you live each moment of your life without the slightest desire to look back and be trapped in memory? To live in the moment of the here and now is devoid of all traditions. The contamination of the ego-self cannot enter the present moment. It is the essence of freedom and the purity of all life. The present moment is without any conflict and sorrow.
Only when we as human beings learn to live in freedom through death will we create a beautiful world not only for ourselves but for our children. Let us look deep into this so we may awaken to a new life free of all conflict. So that when we look within our self for the intelligence that can solve all our problems, the mind as thought must come to an end. And that ending is not a movement of self-deception, delusion or imagination but a living death that breathes life. Then you will awaken to the splendor of the eternal that transcends this obscure life in which the mind of man has built.
Realize that, spirituality is not a matter of denying or accepting the mind and the things of the mind. One simply transcends it. What is paramount is to live in wholeness and not be trapped in the limitations of the mind. What one is pointing out is; can we drop the mind all together? Not as a figment of ones imagination or any form of delusional reaction, but as an actuality.
Spiritual love is unconditional compassion.
The mind, with all its contaminations of the past, can not solve our problems on any fundamental level. So when one see this clearly, not as a theory but an actual fact, the whole thing is dropped. Through deep insight, the realization of this comes and wipes out all the darkness of the idea of mind as thought, emotion and ideation.
When there is the awakening within, ones whole life is complete order. And in this order, there is love, unconditional love. This love, if you are truly listening so far, is the wholeness of perception. This perception is absolute clarity beyond the field of mind as knowledge. This totality of all energy is life. To call it God or Allah or whatever is to reach back into the mind and all its idiocy. So when at once the mind is dropped, why would one ever want to pick it back up? Simply live in this awareness, this wholeness of perception in which mind as time and thought can not enter. This effortless movement of love transcends the idea of mind and no-mind. Then there is freedom without measure. Only then you realize you are no longer a mere mental entity in life, you discover you are life, eternal.
Spiritual Master Adonis Alexander
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