Mutually Creating Truth

Here is a typical quote I extracted from one of those enlightenment-awakening-guru-MasterTeacher-websites that the internet is teeming with

“Detach from who you think you are and realize the Truth that God is your Beingness outside the illusion of time. You are the bliss of eternal nothingness attached to an illusion of identity”

Whaaaaa? What the frig does that mean? Or better yet, does that help you one tiny speck in dealing with the conflicts and dilemmas of your actual life experience?

When I read this platitudinal balderdash I usually just snicker a little and move on to the next holy one where I’ll be sure to find the same senseless blather. This is the “modern master’s” attempt to regurgitate ancient “wisdom” thereby perpetuating the compulsion to repackage the past, which the ego insists will save it.

Truth is not found in the past as that only makes one a victim of time. It’s created together in a present which constructs a future thereby recreating the past.

Yet, they advocate that you need to have “direct experience” of it. Obviously, they’ve had “direct experience” for why else would they give you this gibberish so that you can eat it up with, “wow, dude, I wanna talk righteous-cool like you!”

Remember a long time ago when you first realized that you had fallen in love with someone? Remember the psychological and emotional high you got from that and how long it lasted? Recall the deeply intimate moments with friends, children, parents? What individual pleasures could compare to this?

Well, my friend, that was “enlightenment”! Unfortunately the ego-self soon minimizes the experience so that it can then install its own agenda, or ‘conditions,’ to the experience, which clearly dilutes the experience, thereby making it chiefly void of meaning. Enlightenment lost!

Do you really think that you can go off to your corner and sit on your cushion for a couple a years and get “enlightened” alone? Do you really think that this “infinite oneness” is available in piecemeal portions to separate individual minds?

Many believe just that and thus fail to see how the separate egoic mind has completely co-opted the mission. That’s what they want you to buy into (with their books, retreats, seminars workshops, CD’s etc, etc, etc). Why? Because this advances their egoic agenda and nothing more than that.

Seems to me the whole Buddha/Christ message has gotten so watered down over the centuries that it no longer makes any sense. The ego twists and bends truth to make it fit the relative ego agenda. But what’s really happening is, “other people really suck sometimes, so let me repackage this message so that I don’t need them and I can get the “Truth” (cap T) on my own through the "master." Then Truth becomes my proprietary knowledge and I can provide it to other “individuals” and even make a living off Truth."

You don’t have to be “in love” to be "En-lightened” and you certainly don’t need to be coupled off in some sort of marriage or be engaged in any kind of sexual relationship to encounter the deep intimacy required for an ‘awakened’ experience. The form is not important, but the content is everything. We have no idea what “love” is, but together we can learn and together we can create Truth.

Enlightenment is a “direct experience,” but not the kind you can summon up all on your own sitting in some solitary corner doing your asanas. No, “enlightenment” is experienced through and with others. Enlightenment is deeply engaged in the sharing of your experience of a world of others. Because, lets face it, without others to define, and who define you, who would you be?

“You” exist BECAUSE “they” do and they exist because of you.

“Relationship” is what you’re here for and nothing else. It’s your only purpose and your only function. Time to surrender the myth of the solitary seeker once and for all. The “Heroes Journey” is a collective pursuit not in finding Truth, but in creating it.

Thanks,

mikeS