"When
expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that is
infinity"
Therefore, My
devotees must be committed to
the moment to moment devotionally Me recognizing and
devotionally to-Me-responding practice of ego-surrendering,
ego-forgetting, and (more and more) ego-transcending
feeling-Contemplation of Me. This
is the counter-egoic
Principle that
relieves My devotees of the struggle with
"Narcissus ".
The common
religious or
Spiritual cult is based on the
tendency to resist the disciplines of real (and really
counter-egoic)
practice....
All
cults, whether sacred or
secular, thrive on indulgence in the psychology (and the
emotional rituals) of hope, rather than on
actual
demonstration of counter-egoic
and really ego-transcending action. Therefore, when all egos
meet, they strive and compete for the ultimate fulfillment
of searches and desires, rather than cooperate with lioth,
Reality, or Real God, and in a culturally valued and
rewarded mood of fearless tolerance and sane equanimity.
That is to say, the ....traditional gnosis (or Great
Argument) is Liberating (or has the Capability to Liberate
the listener from "work",
or counter egoic effort, or
intensive practice toward, or, otherwise, preliminary to,
Realization) only to the degree (or in the Event) that the
original subjective conviction becomes Samadhi (or Inherent
Identification with the Perfectly Subjective Condition That
Is the Great Truth) .
Therefore, the
sixth stage of life is the final stage
of the
progressive counter-egoic action
of submitting the conditionally manifested being to its
Perfectly Subjective Source-Condition.
....the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is
characterized by non-seeking, and by truly counter-egoic
(and always already ego-transcending and Divinely Infused)
self-discipline,
Therefore, because the true devotional relationship to Me is
entirely a counter-egoic discipline, it does not become a
"cult".
The answer is expansion. Contraction is suffering. It
identifies centers, locates and defines the being in
illusion. The whole affair of release, then, is expansion,
counter to the reactive, unconscious recoil to which we are
subject by birth. Transformation at every stage is a matter
of expansion, not through an effort to be expansive from the
egoic point of view, but through the undermining in
consciousness of this contraction. The conscious process is,
effectively, expansion, passage beyond the zero, the center,
the self-definition, the point of view that defines
consciousness.
This Way is fulfilled by Grace, not by personal efforts. But
the reception of Grace depends upon the response of
responsible fulfillment of the Law, or sacrifice. Thus, life
and attention must be wedded in the form of every action, so
that these become effectively equivalent to a counter-action
(no-self) to the root action (the actor) that is the signal
of suffering. Therefore, the devotee acts always in
relationship to the all-pervading Reality, making every
action, every moment of attention, every moment of
participation in the rising worlds a service to the Divine
Sin means, as I've said before to miss the mark. So to seek
God, to turn to the Self, is a form of this sin. All
turning, then, is sin, all turning is to miss the mark. To
pursue Truth or God through experiences or on a lower level
is to miss the mark, to miss God, to miss the Self. To turn
to the Self or God through experiences on a higher level is
to miss God, miss the Self. To turn within to find, to turn
away from something to the within to find God. the Self, is
turning, is to miss the mark. All turning then, turning is
the quality. All turning is to miss the mark. All turning is
sin. So the activity of turning then is the quality of
separation, the quality of narcissus. is the quality of
contraction.
Therefore, at last there is no turning within, and no
strategy without, but dissolution in Ignorance-Radiance
itself.
The Current or Life of the Divine Person pervades the
bodymind. Therefore, we may, by turning attention
into the Current of the living body, concentrate the force
of the Current of Life in various aspects of this body-mind.
By moving the attention in a certain way, we can even
have the sense of moving into the psyche independent of the
physical body. But we do not Realize the Current itself
by moving attention through the body-mind. We do not
thus surrender into the Current itself. Rather, we move
attention about within that Current, within the confines
of the body-mind. Generally, our effort moves us toward the
brain core, or the higher end of the spectrum of experience.
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