Everyone who is seeking enlightenment should ask themselves the most basic of questions.

What are your really seeking?

See most people are really seeking something other than enlightenment without realizing they are. Invariably they are seeking a better human life and underneath that sort of seeking is what is in it for me? How is this going to help me? How is this going to help humanity?

The fact of the matter is that it isn’t going to help your physical form. Enlightenment isn’t about your physical form being free from suffering regardless of whether it’s physical, emotional or psychologically. It has nothing to do with your physical form.

The end of suffering comes about because the physical form is seen to not be you. Let me try and highlight.

If in 5 minutes from now it was strongly indicated that I pour petrol over my head and burn myself alive, I would do so without hesitation and with a grin on my face and with deep gratitude. I could and would do this because my identity isn’t tied to physical self and all it encompasses. The physical body itself will most likely scream as its being burned alive and no doubt will experience a lot of pain in that act. But the pain and screaming are not related to true self, other than as appearance of consciousness. That grin may well be wiped from physical face as soon as the body hits those flames, but true mind will still be grinning (metaphorically).

A more practical example, my health isn’t the best and there is a possibility that I will die shortly. What does death mean to me? Absolutely nothing. I am not going to another realm, my karma has been extinguished. And if I do happen to go to another realm it wont have anything to do with physical self or its desires, it will be entirely scripted by God. God may even have the energetic version of physical self, putting angels over my knees and spanking their butts and saying not that, not that. But likely any remnant of me as physical energetic self will return to true self and be completely extinguished.

Which isn’t as bad as it sounds since true self will still have experiences in the form of you and the trees and the rocks and the universe and all the other universes and everything in between. The point being is that enlightenment and physical self arent related, even though there are artefacts of enlightenment on physical self, the biggest being a recognition of no self.

Think about no self long and hard before embarking on the pathless path.

But you as an identified physical self are bound by karma and you must follow it to its logical conclusion. Now most people think of karma as good and bad. If I do more good deeds my karma becomes less. This is not the real nature of Karma, despite what you may have read. If you do a good deed, then equally at the same time you are doing a bad deed. For example, a loving act by definition creates its opposites a hateful act, because a loving act is relative and there is always the other side of the coin. That is why the world never changes at a psychological or spiritual level, because every action, every word is dual.

You do not suddenly become free of duality while physical body still exists. For example, I know unequivocally that if I say you are loved, that in the moments you do not feel loved, it will be seen negatively. Good and bad go hand in hand and while Shiva is certainly the creator, she also is the destroyer. That is duality… And humanity will never ever be free from that. The free from karma part is true self (God). Karma itself is any movement in mind and is always bound by duality.

The way through Karma is to see that ultimately it does not exist. That it is an illusion. However this isn’t a matter of saying well there isn’t Karma so I can do what I want. If only it were that simple!

It means that while you are awake, you have to work through your karma through an investigation of self. To illustrate:

If you have a victim/blaming mentality that is your karma right there. Until you are brutally honest with yourself and acknowledge that indeed you have a victim blaming mentality then you are bound to that karma for the remainder of life.

It is irrelevant that this is scripted and you do not ultimately have a choice here. Because in illusion you have the appearance of choice, and that appearance must be adhered too. It is a cosmic law.

You are never going to awake unless you bring those deep psychological issues out in the open, acknowledge them and do something about them by negating them. If you’re passive in your growth, then you aren’t going to grow (ultimately no growth sure, but in illusion there is that appearance). You will just repeat the karmic cycle continually.

If you continue to blame, you aren’t going to get past blaming. If you continue to wallow in your suffering then you’re not going to get past it.

In an unawake state you have the appearance of choice. So use it wisely, act as if you really do have choice and worry about the no choice, no free will thing until after you are awake. It is of no value to you to put the cart before the horse. The horse has to follow its destiny and so do you.

Most people use the no free will thing as an excuse to avoid doing the work on themselves. You could argue well since it is scripted, then I don’t have to do anything, God will do it.

But you’re missing it when you are telling yourself that. You have to earnestly go through the motions of having choice, until it is seen as a direct experience that you weren’t really doing anything at all. Emphasis on direct as opposed to an intellectual understanding. You have to see that you as physical entity do not exist, and that it is God playing all things simultaneously. And if you do not see that and instead see duality as in well God is doing that to me as physical self, then you aren’t going anywhere.

If you don’t believe me, then keep doing what you are doing and then get back to me in twenty years time and ask me why aren’t I awake yet?

This very post is part of the script. Those that recognize, “ok well now I really better spiral inwards” eventually will be enlightened. Those that think, don’t have to do anything, will just never awake and those that continue to seek enlightenment in all the wrong places will just do that, seek seek seek. And will be scratching their heads wondering, “well gee why aren’t I awake yet, look at all the books and scriptures I have read, I should be awake!”.

It is also part of the script that things will be put in front of you continually until you deal with them with courage and brutal honesty.

How do you deal with them?

Acknowledge and accept them deeply. See that in fact that those behaviors, those thoughts, those emotions aren’t really you. If you’re blaming, then acknowledge you are. Then watch yourself blaming and continue to watch. Shine a light on that behavior and bring it into the open.

When you have it in the open then attack it with the fury of hell hound. Is that behavior really you? Where does it really stem from? What triggers it? How does it manifest as thought? Who is having that thought if as physical self, I don’t really want it or can’t seem to control it?

Inquire…

Once you have it out in the open and you negate that behavior as illusion then that’s one karmic cycle extinguished. Then you move on to the next and the next and the next, until nothing of you remains.

Which brings me back to the first point of this essay. What are you really seeking?

If it is to be a happy person, then enlightenment isn’t for you. You should put 100% effort into investigating happy people.

If you want to be relatively free from physical pain, then put 100% effort into an investigation into healing.

If you want to be rich then put 100% effort into that.

If you want to be Christian, Muslim, Jewish etc put 100% into that.

But if you want enlightenment recognize that enlightenment has nothing to do with your physical self. It is about transcending physical self and by necessity involves the obliteration of your identity as a person.

In other words you have to be prepared to die and I really mean prepared to physically die in the quest for enlightenment, because it is thousands of times harder to attain (even though your not attaining anything) than the things above.

Recognize that enlightenment isn’t a particularly pleasant process that in fact it’s stupendously hard.

And if you are prepared to die or do what ever it takes for enlightenment to occur then deal with your issues and negate them.

Each issue that you see as being negative in your life is there to forge you in preparation for enlightenment. If you do not deal with them then you are not going to transcend that appearance of negativity and go on to the next thing.

If it isn’t truth realization (enlightenment) you really want then seek elsewhere. So let it go and seek what you really want. Clarify it for yourself what you really want.

If it is truth realization you want then get yourselves to take the first step. Deal with the issues.

So the question before you is what do you really want from life and what are you prepared to do to get it?

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Eddie Traversa

Spiritual Enlightenment Blog

http://www.truthrealization.com/index.php

I know I am supposed to let go, Eddie, but I don't ever want to forget your voice.

Very interesting article. After giving it thought, I want to do what I am doing now.

LK

relax i am not on my death bed and for all I know the absolute will have me around for 50 years or more to bug ya.... Yes I am not in the best shape of my life for sure, but it takes but a single thought to cure and if and when that is indicated in my life thats what will happen... which i will explain later on...

So dont worry about what happens to my physical self... Cause i sure dont


The idea of not being tied to physical self is really the more central point I was trying to make...

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Eddie Traversa

Spiritual Enlightenment Blog

http://www.truthrealization.com/index.php

I got the point, it reverberated!!!!!

Another excellent posting Eddie. This is very much a thought-provoking workshop.

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