Christ's Gospel: Unity With God
December 25, 2011
It is not God who is lost and must be found. It is we who are lost and must step back from the ludicrous and arrogant assumption of our separation from Truth (Reality), which is Love and Unity of all Life.
By Robert Cinque
(henrymakow.com)
Authentic spiritual practice and discipline are founded and grounded in responsibility, not beliefs or metaphysics, which are way downstream from What is always already the Case: seamless unity between matter and consciousness, self and God, part and whole.
Beliefs are stories about reality, not reality itself; a map is not equal to the territory it describes. Reality is obvious, self evident, does not need beliefs to make it true.
Reality is already true, it is Truth, or Life, same thing. Life is Truth, Truth is Reality, Reality is Conscious Light, That which we call God.
Our emotional recoil, our collapse from Reality, from Love, our assumption of separation from Truth, creates the stressful search for unity and meaning, which cannot be found because we are pushing it away.
Endlessly repeating this creates the structure and mechanisms of egoism, a farce that we plaster on to the Beauty and Innocence of Life.
Truly, there is no discrete entity living inside my head or heart, there is only Reality fractalizing into versions of Itself that I call "me".
Failure to understand this results in a confusion that prevents me from being intimate with That which lives Itself as me and everything else. The part is lived by the Whole and there exists a deep and passionate intimacy between the Two.
REPENT
Thus, to "repent" means to turn back from our foray into identification with one side of the equation (matter/body), and, to "sin no more", becomes a sacred commitment to face and embrace Reality's descent into the body, that which I actually am.
That's right. I am the living, embodied Presence of Reality and so are you. We are embodied consciousness, intelligent Light that creates appropriate forms for its expression.
You, for example.
Waking up to this already existing Fact is crushing and humbling and illuminating because it outshines my assumption of separateness, (egoism) and relieves me of the burden of being a searcher, a somebody. Yes, I am a "somebody", an individuated being, a self, a personality, but it's not separate from God any more than a whirlpool is separate from the River.
We are the whirlpool and the River, human and divine, intimate with each other, lovers that are simultaneously "separate" and one. We are only apparently separate, which is the way Reality incarnates, making endless distinctions and variations of Itself, playful themes and modifications of its own intense Dynamic.
The assumption that organic distinctions in Nature, such as the leaf on the tree, is evidence that the leaf is separate from the Tree is absurd, is what creates egoism and suffering and the search for God. However, it is not God who is lost and must be found. It is we who are lost and must step back from the ludicrous and arrogant assumption of our separation from Truth (Reality), which is Love and Unity of all Life.
There is only One Life living Itself as all beings and worlds. Only God exists. "You" and "me" are proof. No entity could possibly be separate from what originates it.
All techniques and remedies and solutions to our imaginary, self-created problem, spiritual, religious, psychological, political or otherwise, are doomed to not only fail, but to guarantee our endless enslavement.
It hurts to be an ego and going to the doctor or priest only hurts more because he, like us, assumes our problem to be real. Instead of telling us to take our hands off our throats and our fingers out of our eyes, he gives us a prescription for the pain and sets up another appointment.
This is like waking up in prison and asking the warden for a better pillow as a solution to feeling despair and longing. Break out of the prison! The door isn't even locked! We think it's locked. It isn't.
All the grievous maladies and injustices in the world stem from this spiritual error and nothing will change on planet Earth until we wake up from our exclusive identification with a separate self, a false self, and be Who and What we already are: Love embodied, the Word made Flesh.
That's right. Each individual is always in a state of seamless unity with the Mystery and Wonder of Existence, that which we call God. Christ's original Gospel was certainly this very message, the Good News of Unity with God, the Treasure the man finds "buried in his field", as he is recorded as saying in the New Testament. It had been there all along...
Our emotional recoil from Life, from Trust in Love, is what Christ identified as sin, literally "missing the mark". His call was to face the already existing State of Happiness, of Love, that is Alive as Everything, and to not wander off into fear or doubt, love God and our neighbors as ourselves.
What a glorious message.
Let us give this gift to ourselves and to each other as we celebrate Christmas, the Feast of Giving, whatever our traditions may be, and embrace the infinitely Passionate Current of Life in Love, and fulfill the work of Peace on Earth, Good Will to all.
Michael said (December 26, 2011):
With all due respect to you, Robert..this is not really the Gospel, at least not the one in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. There is bits of truth here and there, "...we are lost" That is true. And Jeus came to "seek and to save that which is lost" But the Gospel of Jesus deals with simple truths, that in this article seem a bit mixed up..howbeit sincere.
The Bible is emphatic, "all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God;" "The wages of sin is death".."the soul that sins it shall die" Repentance is part of receiving God's gift, but its not "repent...from that which I actually am"-(sinner not mentioned). It is the real revelation, "I am a sinner, seperated from God." Jesus contrasted the story of the Pharisee, "I thank thee God, I am not like..." and the poor publican, who "hung his head and beat his
breast, saying, 'God be merciful to me the sinner'" Jesus said, the latter went to his house justified, not the Pharisee. Sin is missing the mark of God's perfection, some miss small, some large..Paul said "he was chief of sinners." Yet he claimed also he was "perfect after the Law-a Pharisee" Jesus went beyond the outward appearances, "if someone looked on a woman to lust, he
commits adultry in his heart.." God was after the heart all along. Jesus vicarious death, was payment for "all who believe." God is love, man is not naturally good, Jesus said "There is none good but God.." Jesus "tasting death for every man" showed God's absolute love..."greater love has no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for a friend...yet while we were
sinners Christ died for us."