Thursday, September 13, 2007

Belief, Desire and The One Who Seeks

What does it mean to believe? Are belief and desire separate from the one who seeks? Belief is an extension of desire. When one is identified and attached to a belief, which can be religious or idealistic, then one creates exclusion and separation. When one is divided and therefore not whole there is the conflict of opposition. One cannot find 'oneness' through the practice of belief in that which divides. The duality that is the process of thought is ever dividing the me from the not me which is the source of conflict. My religion...your religion, my country....your country etc.
The division that is created within each one of us is also the division of the world. The worlds division which is its hatred, prejudice and violence is the result of your division. Seeing that this is a fact, what will you do? Will you continue to be identified as a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, or xyz. Or will you look directly at the truth this very moment and move in a different direction? Will you act this moment, because there is only this moment. If you say it will take time, then you are sunk, you will continue to live with your division. The truth is in the moment. One must take responsibility for this continuity of hatred and prejudice and actually be transformed this very moment.

Can one grasp the enormity of this realization. If just a thousand people could be transformed in this moment it would in turn transform millions. It is possible that there would be a mutation in the human psyche that would result in a totally new being. One who exist in the light of truth. One who is totally selfless. This is not a idea or philosophy, it is looking directly at what is and saying to oneself, I see the truth and seeing the truth I will drop everything and act.
This is the truth of Maitreya. Maitreya is not a person or personality, it is the Buddha within.
The realization of Maitreya is the negation of identification and attachment to all that is the self including Buddhism.

It does one no good to be a seeker. What ever you seek is just a projection of your desire which is an extension of you belief. For the new, which is without the self and its baggage, to come into fruition one must drop it all so one can look with a fresh mind. Leaving all the minds accumulations behind, look without reference and realize the truth of your own being and the truth of the world you have created.

Om Shanti.

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