Falling From Grace
Breaking Down The Barriers
Here is a breakdown of some of the features of the Fall. Some of these must be viewed in a subtle manner in order to clearly see the differentiation. This is not meant to be a defining moment but merely a pointer for one's own exploration and analysis of these phenomenon.
True Nature: Isness and Not-Isness. This is the Totality, the All That Is, God, Grace or whatever name, function or form one wishes to attach to it. Nothing can come close to describing it nor can one experience it. It just is and the whole point of self realization is recognizing the Totality of one's self without using the finite and therefore limited, Mind.
Awareness-Beingness: A sense of self-identity or separateness in regard to the totality. This is the 'who' of who you are. With awareness comes beingness and with beingness comes awareness. These are not two states of existence but merely two ways of saying the same thing. One cannot be aware without a sense of being separate and apart and one cannot be with an awareness of such.
Mind: A non-physical object which is used to accumulate one's experience as being separate and apart. This gives the 'who' definition. It's the do's and don't's or 'how to' book of conducting one's affairs. Concepts, ideas and thoughts provide the framework in which the awareness expresses itself. The mind is the vehicle through which beingness interacts with it's surroundings. Through this collection of relational experience, cause and effect become established.
Concept: A symbol used for representational purposes. Example: apple; roundish, red, white interior.
Idea: Conceptual relationships. Example: apple; Crunchy, juicy, sweet, hard skin, soft interior.
Thought: The cause and effect of conceptual relationships. The application of conceptual relationships creating action and reaction. Example: An apple is good when sweet and juicy and bad when sour or dry.
Think: to weigh and consider thoughts.
Understand: To duplicate a concept or concepts which are expressed from other beings directly or indirectly.
Decision: An idea upheld as being true and correct and used as a motivational force (or justification) for activity.
Science is the pursuit of separating man from God and in so doing, to learn what God is.
These terms are only used as a pointer and are defined in a particular way in order to lay out the overall interplay which is being described here. It's boring, but sometimes, entertainment is like that.
All these terms and definitions have nuances which one could spend a large amount of time and effort in unraveling in order to clearly separate each process, function and form. This is not a necessary step towards the realization of one's own nature as the tendency is to get caught up and carried away with the mind and it's shenanigans. Better it is to strike the root.
Perhaps one can see how we become trapped by our own design. By relegating our definition to the mind we become subservient to it and therefore must live up to the expectations which we have programmed in. Here is cause and effect obviously working hard to keep us alive and living the dream we imagine for ourselves.
A classic example of the Fall, when it comes to the mind, is this:
* Think a thought. * Now become that thought. * Now stop being that thought - at which point it becomes impossible because one cannot stop thinking a thought while one is thinking the thought. It's like telling someone to stop being a policeman while they are a policeman. It quite impossible.
This is the reason that many will say that it requires an outside influence, some one or some thing exterior to our thinking process to yank the leash and get us to walk a different way. One cannot change one's beingess, one's thoughts, one's outlook until one understands what is going on. No amount of words, explanations, concepts or picture drawing will do it.
All it takes is the rationale to end beingness. Whether it begins with ceasing to be a thought or ending with ceasing the urge 'to be', all roads lead to Rome. You are the way, the means, the length and breath of it and so no one can do it for you, give it to you or provide the means.
You are the universe. You make and break the world in which you create. But that is not something that most are willing to hear or abide and so these little pointers along the way will perhaps provide sufficient entertainment so that the urge for more takes root.
It sure beats staring at moving pictures on the tele-vision.
If one wishes to survive the pain and anguish of mortal living all that need happen is the awakening of the manifestation of beingness. Not mental beingness but that which the mental depends. The one and only - You!
From there it's just a matter of relaxing into your own Nature. But why wait. Why not just do it all in this very instant and let it all go. Just chuck it all as one discards the day's clothes into the hamper of ill repute. Whatever concept one has of one's self belongs to the definition of concept as stated above: "A symbol used for representational purposes." You, obviously, are not a representation. You are You and that is That!
But perhaps that is getting ahead of the game - the game of "I'm down and out and need to work my way home." The secret is: you never left. But don't let me spoil the surprise for you. Go ahead and entertain yourself.
But for those who are serious, for those who take their being seriously, here is a message to take to your self: kill it. Let it die and wither on the vine as all beingness' must. Kill it by understanding it's nature and make-up. Not understanding what one thinks is it's nature, but through investigation, analysis and proclamation. In other words, to see what is as it is without anyone, including you, getting in the way.
There are more than enough concepts going around to fill every inch of space, known and unknown. What good are they? For each concept there is a opposite and equal alternative. So what? Toss them all and be done with it all.
You are what you create.
So go ahead and create your true Nature. I dare you.
