What if all "living" is an Inside Job?

Sensation gives the experience of an outside, or external, world but the experience of living is always internally realized. Maybe we press the context of externalization upon the mind and project that to the body's senses which seems to project it back at us, giving the impression of an outside.

What if there is no outside, but just an external reference manufactured by a separate individualized ego/mind that projects guilt upon ego-constructed others in order to maintain its own innocence? What if, in order to remain separate from Source, which is origin of our pervasive guilt, an outside was necessary to deny separation?

In that case, suffering is not a product of the world, but a product of mind and there are no 'others' external to mind, nor is there a cause of suffering outside the mind. To the contrary, all suffering is a result of the mind that thinks an outside is real and this could be completely abolished by that same mind, if it did not believe in a world external to mind, based on the faulty association of the senses creating an experience of an external world.

But then, is death real? Of course, when I die, you and all those who believe in death might assume I'm dead. However, if I do not subscribe to the conventional ideology of death (as an 'ending'), then I might continue, but only as a different "I" or possibly no "I" at all, anything but dead. I am prepared for "surprise" as long as I do not conceptualize death, as 'ending,' into my belief system. On the other hand, religions prepare you for such a conceptualized death and the fear that such an ending entails.

Be careful in adhering to the body's senses as the chief mode of accumulating all your knowledge and remember that sense impressions must be categorized by the mind (but I'm sure you're aware of all that). All sensation is of an external world or, more specifically, the defining of experience of the world as external.

All the sensations are external to mind since they refer to body. The body is external to mind so having a heart attack, getting an appendage amputated (is it that I only think it is gone or is it that it never was really there in the first place?), giving birth to a child, catching a cold, getting shot, or stabbed, on and on and on, are all externally referenced as outside mind. You will have pain and suffering in your mind, but cause is externally referenced.

All knowledge ever accumulated has been in direct accordance with sense impressions, even abstractions such as truth, beauty, etc, are formulated in relation to forms being external to mind. We demand form and substance, but form and substance only exists for sensory perception and cannot be experienced without sensation. The mind has no need for it, unless the mind conceptualizes a 'self' requiring a 'body' and a 'world' to support its existence (which seems to be exactly what it has done).

A radical perspective would conceptualize all external references as internal and essentially, when you get down to it, this is where the modern Law of Attraction must eventually take you (once you get beyond "The Secret"). Of course, you can attract from the universe if universe is nothing but consciousness/mind, then all objects of consciousness are nothing but mindstuff with no substance or form but that which you give it. Quantum theory will never bring us to that resolution because consciousness has no form or substance and neither do the objects of consciousness. We impress substance and form upon the mind, as categories of thought, in our demand that experience have an external reference point). Science must have form and substance to quantify and measure that which we label "reality." Without form and substance 'reality' could not be, since that is exactly how 'reality' is defined as being.

It would seem that fear is the chief obstacle to creating in the mind and limits what can be created. The fear that if all the objects of consciousness are simply "mindstuff," with absolutely no form or substance, then that would mean YOU have no form or substance either. Eeek!

FORMLESS AND SUBSTANCELESS PURPOSE

I would imagine the purpose is to recognize that you have no purpose that a formless, substanceless Beingness could conceptualize. This is because 'purpose' asserts an outside world for which to impress our 'purposes' upon.

Most likely you have no choice in Being or not Being and that's a given. However, existence, as opposed to just Being, is intricately tied to belief in 'self.' The self is existing as something and that seems to be cause of the suffering (or at least that's what the Buddhist's claim). To exist presupposes as something whereas Being does not require defining as anything since it is NOT any 'thing' (requiring form or substance) although all the religious and spiritual masters insist on defining it and this is because we demand that they do so. We demand form and substance.

However, possibly it is our need for purpose that causes the suffering of a consciousness bound to a specific direction or course and the consciousness that must assert a "purpose" must always seek it, else why assert it in the first place. Therefore, it must conjure up the objects of consciousness which provide it's purposes.

We become imprisoned in our senseless seeking and to seek something asserts that we have some idea of what it is, for if you had no idea, why seek at all. Thus, we sift through consciousness adding and subtracting what we determine is in line with some "purpose" we seek. Of course, this is nonsense.

To assert a 'divine reality' is to assert that you are separate from it and caught in the circularity of seeking, since what you seek posits that it is not yet found (so keep on trucking). Maybe when the seeking for purpose is terminated, purpose will be found and the ego/self will dissolve right before your spiritual eyes, to be replaced by a much better experience.

How is it that we have no choice in Being, but assert all kinds of choices in our need for a 'self' to exist?

Being asserts "I AM." Existence, which the 'self' relies on, asserts I AM THAT. Self denies Being in its desire to be something and thus we have a world of 6 billion separate 'somethings' all asserting one above the other in competition for supremacy of existence.

Cells, womb, mother, animals, spirit, soul, biology, mind and even birth and death, are all objects, or concepts, of consciousness. Obviously, if Christ and Buddha proved you cannot die, why would you think you were born?

When you really get down to brass tacks, we have no conclusive proof that our experience of an external world is anything but a self-manufactured theatrical production(very entertaining though) or that it is real in anyway whatsoever, except in the mind - "cogito ergo sum"!

Therefore, since you do not know and, essentially, cannot know, you can then leave yourself open for SURPRISE. A life lived in awaiting "surprise" may finally be a life worth living. Because there really is no value in living a life awaiting death, which most of us were taught to wait for and do everything possible to delay.

But then, I'm just saying...

Peace Angels,
mikeS