For the many who embrace the Truth of 'Thy will be done', how are these people to accept the concept of a future judgment. Assuming God to be the judge, then God will be judging God's own action as all events that unfold are in accord with His will.
Going by the teaching of karma in Buddhism and Hinduism, our coming into this world is the Judgment itself.
With this lead, we seek confirmation from other part of the scripture and I came up with this one sentence that say it all. The scripture say ' For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of the Father' Now things start to clear up if one use the original meaning of the word 'sin' which is simply 'mistake'
I will further pad up the sentence for better clarity. It will now read as 'For All Have Mistaken Their Bodies As Them selves and Fall Short Of Their True Identity as The Omnipresent Awareness' If in this lifetime we commit the same mistake of identifying with the flesh, we miss the salvation of being reborn into the Spirit. {refer to the conversation Lord Jesus have with Nicodemus ]. That is we no longer overlook our True identity as Awareness [ Christ consciousness or 8th consciousness in Yogachara Buddhism]
The fact that we are now reading "For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of the Father", is an attestation that we 'are short of the Glory.." as we are still in this samsara world.
ReplyDeleteThe question is how do we achieve 'the Glory of the Father'? Is there a methodology of going about it?
My intuition tells me there is a gradual, step by step way of achieving it.
Firstly we must view this profound TRUTH " For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of the Father" as a mathematical iteration. In every one of our samsaric existence we must undertake at least one 'iteration' to bring us one step closer to the "Glory". The process would be faster if we could undertake multiple 'iterations' per lifetime. After numerous samsaric existence, no matter how long it takes, we know we would finally achieve the "Glory".
As to what exactly the 'iterations' that one has to take, one has to figure that out for oneself. It could be understanding the sutras and the scriptures, observing precepts, propagating the TRUTH, and engaging in meritorious deeds etc..
The other approach is the 'sudden realization' path as advocated in the article: Do not identify your True Self with your flesh and body. Very few can succeed with this approach. The statement that "You are not the body" turns off a lot of people with outright disbelief, and for those who are willing to contemplate this statement, it puts them into a schizophrenic state: how do I reconcile my very existence here with the REAL TRUTH that I am false?
Ignorance is the barrier that prevents us from seeing the TRUTH and our REAL SELF. We are covered with layers of dust which prevent the Cosmic Spiritual Light from shining into us and thus allow us to 'see' our REAL SELF. The same dust also prevents our Spiritual Light from shining outwards to illuminate the "PATH" to salvation. It is the absence of interaction between the Cosmic Spiritual Light and our inner Spiritual Light that creates our ignorance. The same "lack of interaction" also insulates us from our ORIGIN, and thus cause separation and duality.
The iteration process is the slow way and extremely difficult as it maintain the concept of a person existing doing his very best to eliminate all his karmic seed.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of a path is delusive as The Tao that can be practiced is NOT the Tao. Word that come closest to pointing this is the pathless path.
When we realized all sentient beings and the world is ONE big dream, then all search and practices within the dream pertain to the dream. We only need to know all dreams are unreal and only the witness of it is real. The real is also the source of the unreal as it is the one dreamer. However do not mistake the source as the cause, since nothing really Exist to justify a cause.