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Recieved: 2002/07/02 13:28
Subject: [K-list] Life after Life ..
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2002/07/02 13:28, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
We do have choices in life .. in both what we will experience and
how we will experience it.
The experiences I have in life, I translate into the words and
language according to my experience, understanding and how I have
learned, been taught, been conditioned to express my self.
The experiences that you have are your experiences in your words,
according to your freedom of expression and what you have been
taught.
The words of all of the great traditions are written in the words
of that tradition - and the secret is in "reading the energy" that
is behind the words.
Attachment to any spiritual tradition is a limitation of the
potential of who we may become .. it limits us to the definitions
associated with the words and symbols .. definitions laid down by
those who started out by trying to explain their experience in
metaphor .. before someone got hold of this idea and thought that
where "xyz" was seemed a "better" place than where they were.
Kundalini and Reiki are no different ..
Ostensibly, both Kundalini and Reiki are "Universal".
Theoretically, the word Universal means just that. It is beyond
words, language, doctrine, dogma and definition.
So, the words and the language and the symbols are merely "tools"
for the linear mind's understanding. We cannot grasp the concept of
our infinity, so we try to use words, language and symbols as an
aid to our understanding .. and also to try to help others
understand "where_we're_at"
Somewhere, there is a forgetting .. a forgetting that expression is
not "Universal", but is for only one moment in time and space.
Understanding is a personal thing. When we say that people don't
understand us, what we are really saying is that we .. the
personalities of the ego mind .. cannot understand our selves.
This is, in itself, a learned behaviour .. remember when parents,
teachers, brothers and sisters couldn't understand us - and put us
down because of us ..
So, now, this has become our mantra ..
The child didn't need words, language and symbols to communicate
with another child .. but it had to find words and language to
communicate with those who had lost their childhood innocence ..
But, no matter which way we went, the energy attached to the words
we learned didn't "feel_right". So, we kept searching .. for more
words, for more expansive symbols .. for something that had a
greater sense of resonance within us ..
and when it felt right, there was usually someone there to make
sure our experience was wrong .. a reflection of what we were doing
to our selves.
But, there are always those who can "market", "trademark", "patent"
some idea .. especially if it has a Universal appeal .. in fact,
the greater the appeal, the more power and money they can make from
"selling" it .. to all of those who are looking for some
understanding, words, language, symbol that will provide come
comfort, some means of expression through which they can relate
their experience to others in the hope that "other" may
"understand" what they are going through.
How does the little "I" think it can "trademark" or "patent" that
which is "Universal". Isn't this exactly the same as saying "my god
is greater than your god".
Of course, immediately a person tries to express that they are the
embodiment of the Universe, human nature, being as it is will try
to slam them down .. and it can be a lot easier on us if we slam
ourselves down before someone else reminds us of how we were shut
down as children .. made wrong, in many cases, for even existing.
So life becomes a series of stepping stones .. and for many, a
search to find some "spirituality" that most closely defines our
experience ..
and in our attachment to the searching, we forget that all we are
trying to find .. is some words, language or symbols to help us
understand what our parents couldn't understand .. ourselves beyond
words, language and symbols .. as we did .. as children.
What we are looking for, is that which is looking .. Undefinable in
its completeness by words language and symbol.
and when
That which is looking
meets with That which it is looking for,
which is also looking for IT
anything and everything else which is not embraced by That
and which separates one That from the other That
gets thrown out ..
whether the little I likes it or not.
All spirituality is exactly the same .. the union of That which is
looking with That which it is looking for .. and the resultant is
pure awareness of That ..
Kundalini is one example of one That .. within the definitions of
words, language, symbols, place and time, culture and creed .. and
Reiki is one example of the other That .. subjected to the same
constraints.
What separates one That from the other That is all of the beliefs
and limitations we have used to try and place That "in a box".
Nuclear Fission is the Union of two Elementary Particles .. beyond
constraint.
"That" is an elementary particle ..
the thinking mind thinks it can provide the constraint.
Om Tat Sat
== Christopher Wynter
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