Religion is bogus, spirituality is experiential and thus is the only real religion. We have to see for ourselves and learn the lessons ourselves to really understand. And this is one big difference between religion and spirituality in my opinion.
Most religious people I have met only do what they do because they have been told by someone else that it is the right thing to do. They are blindly following guidelines because "God" says it's right. Their ego's are so tightly glued to their beliefs that any reasoning with them they take as an attack on themselves and they get angry.
Ofcourse they do. It's their whole story, it is who they think they are. Who the fuck would they be if all of a sudden everything they thought they are would dissolve? You see, the ego provides a very useful function in our lives on this planet.
How else would we know to protect ourselves? How else would we know to feed ourselves? How else would we know to not put our hands in the fire, stay away from things that makes us ill, gather foodies for the winter, dress ourselves warmly, spread our genes to ensure that the species lives on and fight when we have to?
Ask yourself this question: Where would you be without your ego? Probably dead. Long time ago. Spend some time thinking about that one if you havn't before. Use 5DC on your own ego.
So one of the functions of the ego is to ensure the survival of this body that we are in. It does so that we think that we are our thoughts, our minds, our body, emotions, the stuff we do, the things we have and everything else. Without the sense of self, there would be nothing to protect. If there was no other, there would be nothing to fear and we'd have become extinct long time ago.
Now ask yourself this question: "Who am I"? If you were like me when I first got asked this question I thought it was an easy answer.
Do you know, do you really know?
Are you your opinions? What happens if you change your opinions? Are you no longer you?
What's with taste, age, sex, fears, voice, body?
Whatever you change the "you" is still there.
Where is this "I" that everyone keeps talking about? Look around, see if you can find it. Try really, really hard. Seriously, do it. Sit down and look for it. Spend hours, days, weeks, months and years.
Everywhere you look, from every angle and every aspect, everything you thought you are, there is only constant change. If it can change and "I" am still who "I" am, then that which changed wasn't "I". Read that again. If it can change and "I" am still who "I" am, then that which changed wasn't "I". Where, who and what is this "I"? Begin by knowing that you do not know. Know that you do not know who "I" am.
If you can find an "I", that's not it, keep looking. Certainly sudden and big changes in who we think we are can make it feel like we are no longer who we are, but soon the sense of "I" will settle in and we'll accept the changes as part of us no matter how big.
The ego makes us believe that there is an "I". It is its function, and a very useful one at that. But we've all forgotten who and what we really are. We think that we are "good", "kind", "sad", "Fred", "Steph", "depressed" and all that. Our egos absolutely LOVE "bad" people because they make us "good". It LOVES "rapists", "murderers", "paedophiles" and "Hitler" because they give us something to compare ourselves with, something that makes us define "I".
"I am not a rapist, I am this". "I am not a murderer, I am that".
Guess what? What is in a murder is in you. What is in a rapist is in you. What is in a paedophile is in you. What was in Hitler is in you. Under different circumstanses you could have been just like them.
Some people reading that might be in total denial, "I would never do that, I'm a GOOD person" or "whatever, that doesn't apply to ME". Others might be knowing that it is true and feeling bad about it "what do I doooo? what do I doooo?"
Both are expressions of ego. Both are there because you think that you are something that you are not.
So why are people so stubborn? Why are they having such a hard time to change? Why are we sticking to our story of "me"? Why do we choose to be so unhappy? Our survival in this body depends on it. It is our strongest drive and it controls us like a puppet through emotions and thought. Our animal nature needs all of that, without it we wouldn't have survived a single day.
Realize that you do not know who "I" am. Realize that there is no "I". Realize that what is in a rapist, murderer and paedophile is in you and that you would have been the same in their situations.
I think that everything that we ever wanted and everything that we ever did was only because we wanted to be loved, we wanted to feel happy. Some things gives us a quick high, some things makes us forget how miserable we are but until we let go of "I", we'll never be happy.
Open your heart and love all the bad people, really love them. Can you feel the pain, agony and suffering that they have been through, just because they thought they were something they are not? Can you have compassion for everything they did and see that you would have done the same if you were in their shoes?
All that pain and suffering in the world, all because we have forgotten.
(from the ideagasm forums, for incredible advice visit www.ideagasms.net)
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