Knowing and freedom

[BROOK]

Love is real...Love is freedom in it's highest level for it sees no bounderies.
When you know Love you have come home.

So true Mudra

Many hearts have been broken by social consciousness and ego

Heal the heart...through Knowing

Know Love

[mudra]

Originally Posted by BROOK

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Know Love

YouTube - Let Me Heal Your Heart

Love from me
mudra

[BROOK]

Knowing = Love

The truth is, all things are already yours, love will be made manifest. When you know
they are, then they are made available to you. You must understand
that the principal giver of all that you need is you and your ability
to receive love. The way to receive your desires is simply
to know what you want and know you are worthy of getting it.

Knowingness is the truth; it is the giver of all, the giver of love; it is your future

Knowing opens the door to that realization.
It activates another part of your brain so the thought can become
a manifested reality. Then when the experience of your unlimited
thinking has indeed come to pass, that solidifies in the ego part
of your brain the realization that knowing does work,
which gives you the strength to go a step further into even more
unlimited thinking. Unlimited Love....Unlimited freedom

[BROOK]

Knowing Love is not always easy

Knowing Love is not always easy, when confronted by manipulated social consciousness, and ego.
For some it is the hardest thing to find.

This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, then by and by, he becomes aware of himself. This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born. Through appreciation, love, care, he feels he is good, he feels he is valuable, he feels he has some significance. A center is born.


But this center is a reflected center. It is not his real being. He does not know who he is; he simply knows what others think about him. And this is the ego: the reflection, what others think. If nobody thinks that he is of any use, nobody appreciates him, nobody smiles, then too an ego is born: an ill ego; sad, rejected, like a wound; feeling inferior, worthless. This too is the ego. This too is a reflection.

Ego is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. The society means all that is around you - not you, but all that is around you. All, minus you, is the society. And everybody reflects. You will go to school and the teacher will reflect who you are. You will be in friendship with other children and they will reflect who you are. By and by, everybody is adding to your ego, and everybody is trying to modify it in such a way that you don't become a problem to the society.

Excerpts from: http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm

[Karen]

Originally Posted by BROOK

Knowing Love is not always easy

Knowing Love is not always easy, when confronted by manipulated social consciousness, and ego. For some it is the hardest thing to find.

This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, then by and by, he becomes aware of himself.[COLOR=Cyan][I][B]

Wow Brook, that purple color is so much easier to read in minty than the aqua color - would you consider changing to use purple most of the time?

[BROOK]

Which brings us back to EGO..and Ultimate Reality

More and more people the world over have noticed changes occurring at all levels, ranging from increasingly extreme weather conditions and other geophysical phenomena, to a much more subtle, individual level of conscious awareness. Irrespective of the nature, range and magnitude of these changes, most would agree that they are indeed occurring, are unprecedented in recorded human history, and herald a much more profound event or series of events on the horizon.


Mudra has a great thread on the Secret Life of Plants

http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=14664




We are all blessed to be living on Earth during a great transition with the potential to take humans, all organic and mineral life and Earth Herself to the next stage along the path evolution on the great path of return to our Divine Creator from whence we came in the beginning, a transition from one great era of evolution to a new greater era of evolution for humanity, all life on Earth and Earth Herself.
The earth is evolving, and we are evolving




The social consciousness is changing as well...things always get worst before they get better.....don't let the truth of Ultimate Reality be blinded by the fears of the PTB...don't let their ego based greed get the better of your knowing...they are running very scared right now...they are rushing for the game of the millenium..to keep us from knowing the truth, and how simple it is that we create...we don"t need anything but the power of ultimate knowingness....
then will come truth, freedom and love




Blessings to all
Brook

[THE eXchanger]

Originally Posted by BROOK

we don"t need anything but the power of ultimate knowingness....then will come truth, freedom and love

the highest eXpression of truth
is love, weaved with integrity --
those who choose to do that, are FREE !!!

[14 Chakras]

I think this thread started out great. It has veered off into the new age, all you need is love direction.

Love when it is not balanced with power and wisdom, is unenlightened human love that will not change the world. True love is unconditional and it pushes all of creation to become More. We're not to sit idly by and watch as the world becomes lovely. We're here to co-create that better world. We need to balance power and wisdom with love in order to do that.

Being = Love

Originally Posted by BROOK

Then when the experience of your unlimited
thinking has indeed come to pass, that solidifies in the ego part
of your brain the realization that knowing does work,
which gives you the strength to go a step further into even more
unlimited thinking.

Anything that is solidifying your ego, is not going to lead to unlimited anything... other than continued unlimited suffering...

It is not the egos of the power elite that are the problem of our world, as much as it is our own egos that are the problem with our own experiences.

The world outside is a reflection of the individual and collective inner state of our consciousness. As long as we believe we are the thinker, and we are solidifying our thinking, this shift the earth is going to go through will involve many birth pains indeed. We must awaken to our divine reality beyond thought, beyond the ego.

We can say love all we want, the new age movement has been doing just that for decades, and it has not born good fruit in terms of reshaping our world. Until we walk through the darkness we will never get to the light.

We must surrender our own ego illusions, surrender being the doer, surrender to the higher consciousness within. Not my will, but thine be done.

Because from an enlightened perspective, I'm well aware that the higher will is my own will. It is only my ego that thinks it needs to make decisions on it's own and attract what "I want". Only to find that when I have it, I need something else and in the mean time I'm creating all sorts of karma acting from my unenlightened perspective.

The ego is a black hole of desire because it tricks us into thinking something outside of us will fill the void inside. This seeking outside of us leads to endless cycles of birth and death and suffering. The truth is that we are not the ego. Until we are reborn into the higher consciousness that is always in the Now, as Jesus continually stressed, then we are the caterpillar, the walking dead repeating the same lifetimes and mistakes over and over...

The only possible way out of suffering, the only possible way to the kingdom of heaven, is through the surrender of the ego. The ego is the ultimate deception and deceiver. It is the devil inside. We don't overcome it by fighting it, we transmute it by observing it, and sending it love, whilst continually surrendering our own illusions and darkness. The transmutation turns our ego consciousness into the Gold of the divine Being we really are.

The ideal is to do this while we are in embodiment, this is what we came to earth to do, to express our divine individuality and raise it up. If we refuse, cycles pass us by along with cosmic opportunities. Often, we can ascend after the embodiment is over, but without the true victory of adding our own divine light to this planet in the material realm. Many are called, few choose. The true Way, the way to victory, is the way of overcoming the ego.

Knowing you are not the ego is the key, and when you know that and overcome the illusion that you are it, you will Be. You will be free.

[BROOK]

My intention was to stay with Knowing and Freedom..then I got steered into the "LOVE" theme...I stopped and thought and this is what I came up with...

Through unlimited knowing or knowing all that is....through not words but feeling and emotion...you become all that is, part of the all that is.
In doing so you become unconditional love...so I ran with it..but I also pointed out that many cannot experience it due to social consciousness and EGO.....

Ego is the antichrist....it creates all darkness around....and once removed..walla...Light...knowing...all that is...unconditional love

But in agreeing..it is not where this thread was supposed to go

[14 Chakras]

Great post, yes agreed .

I just thought I'd sound a bit dramatic with my opening there...

[BROOK]

Henry David Thoreau
Lived in the wood secluded for two year and two months..
to reflect...wrote the book Walden or life in the woods.

He separated from society to reflect and wrote some of the greatest philosophy ...alone in the woods.

Away from social consciousness....The higher frequency thoughts can be more easily
experienced in the consciousness of the wilderness away from
the stagnated thinking of man, because there life is simple,
and in complete harmony with itself.
There, away from the judgment of man, you can hear your own knowingness.
Your brain is a receiver of electrical thought
frequencies, with different parts designed to receive, house, and
amplify the different frequencies of thought.
Your brain does not create thought,
It simply allows thought to enter into it from consciousness.

Each thought frequency that the altered ego allows to flow
into the brain is transferred into an electrical current and sent to
that portion of the brain that has been activated by the pituitary
to house that frequency. That portion of the brain then amplifies
the current and sends it to the pineal system.

What keeps you from knowing and becoming the totality
of God? Altered ego, because altered ego cuts God off by refusing
to accept all the thought frequencies that God is so it can live
safe and secure, out of harm's way. That is why the altered ego is
indeed what is termed the Antichrist, because it denies that you
are the son of God. It does not allow you to accept the thought
and to realize that you and the Father are one and the same, that
you are the divine and immortal principle that has the power to
create forever .
The Antichrist is the altered ego and its kingdom is social
consciousness. It is that which does not allow unlimited thought;
and its dogma is fear, judgment, and survival. The Christ is man
wholly expressing the power, the beauty, the love, and unlimited
life of the Father that lives within him. It is man realizing that he
is divine and becoming that realization, transcending dogma,
prophesy, and fear, for he knows that beyond social consciousness
lies the unlimited vigor called God.

some excerpts from Ramtha

[burgundia]

The more you know, the wiser you are....the more you can love....

[mudra]

On The Eventual Awakening Of One That Is Not Yet Awake

Every two or three weeks, i awake in the 
middle of the night—4:10 a.m.—looking out 
our weak view windows, thinking of everything 
i have yet to give you. and there’s so much
that i am uninterested in passing on. but of 
these i am clear: hope, finding the beautiful
in an ordinary rain puddle, the restorative
powers of song and guitar, believing in 
what you can create: as Miller said,
finding & following your own criterion of truth.
Knowing both seagulls and pigeons to be
playful and fun. Slowing down more
often than your familial genus may 
predetermine. getting away, getting off
the grid, getting high atop a mountain
others are too busy to climb. Be enamored
with your thoughts — with your own genius
in the family of history. and there is plenty
to mention that we should not mention 
but of these i am clear: commit. Promise to yourself only those 
 moments that actually 
matter for these are made of Love.


Loving kindness
mudra

[NorthernSanctuary]

Brook:..however I had a huge problem with taking the energy you possess to a centralized spot to isolate from the world.
...They are nothing different then you or I..they are humans, seeking TRUTH and KNOWING.

The issue of RZ communities is independent of seeking TRUTH and KNOWING. There are people that seek TRUTH and KNOWING within and outside the communities.

The effort to create RZs is motivated by the desire to realize a vision of a better society in the world. While the energy to do that is substantial, it is probably much less than the total expended in the present chaotic turmoil that you see in the existing society. Everything goes in cycles, and it is important to recognize the end of a cycle and the starting of another one. By this is meant that there comes a time when the proper response is to focus on creating something new "from scratch" as opposed to patching the old. It may be sad to recognize the existing society/civilization is coming to an end, but that is the truth. The challenge to create a new one in a better image is substantial, but it needs to be done, just as it was done more than 200 years ago in North America, when pioneers create new communities which eventually became the USA.

It is because of the substantial energy and challenge to build a new society that people of like mind must come together to take this effort that is the basis for the creation of RZs. These are the nucleus of what will hopefully be the new centers, or what you may call cities for lack of a better term, for the new world society, one based on TRUTH and KNOWING of the self as a spiritual being. A society integrating science and spirituality.

This in no way takes away anything from anyone that feels that their purpose is to remain in the existing cities to help out. Neither perspective excludes the value of the other. There is plenty of work to go around for all.

[NorthernSanctuary]

Brook:The wisdom of life, cosmology, to ontology. People are supposed to learn the wisdom of life in general, Laozi theorizes, and he brings forward philosophical ideas on politics, sociology, and interpersonal relationships. Yet the focus is not on the creation of civilization, but rather on self-cultivation. Laozi's thoughts are basically social philosophy and theories based on Dao, but he is not interested in creating a new and ideal society, because that is not the way of the Dao.

The focus is on self-cultivation because a society can only be as evolved as the individuals of that society; the society can only be a reflection of its parts, which is the individual. Laozi did not exclude the existence or the value of society, but clearly the important part is the development of the individual. If the individuals are evolved, the society automatically becomes ideal. If we are on a path to evolve back to the source, then clearly the value of learning to co-operate and work together as a group is very important, because when everyone is merged back to the source, the "breathing room" might just get a bit tighter compare to what we are use to. This is why the challenge, when we evolve to the next level, is to learn to work together.. and it is also the present challenge for like-minded individuals at our present level.

[mudra]

Originally Posted by NorthernSantuary

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It is because of the substantial energy and challenge to build a new society that people of like mind must come together to take this effort that is the basis for the creation of RZs. These are the nucleus of what will hopefully be the new centers, or what you may call cities for lack of a better term, for the new world society, one based on TRUTH and KNOWING of the self as a spiritual being. A society integrating science and spirituality.

This in no way takes away anything from anyone that feels that their purpose is to remain in the existing cities to help out. Neither perspective excludes the value of the other. There is plenty of work to go around for all.

I agree with you that although it's of each individual 's responsability to raise himself up as a conscious being working as a team of like minded people focusing on the same purpose will create a greater impact than to work by own's own. If we consider it a desirable thing for the society to change and progress than we must be open enough to accept these changes that take place within her and be a motor of these changes. It's is not a matter of throwing away the society at large but rather to reflect on it , draw conclusions from experience and give it a new stirr .We have arrived at that marvellous point in time where a conscious choice can be made to live anew would we want to . The current society has evolved to a point of introducing so much pressure in our individual lives that we tend to forget who we really are and what we are here for . What is so special about these current times is that despite the burden we carry on our shoulders awakening is taking place . Imagine there was a city where people would eat organic food everyday, where children would be raised with a good sense of spiriituality and wisdom , where you could work less and have more time to share with your relatives and friends, where there was no criminality and people from the youngest to the oldest could live harmoniously with each other in respect of mother earth and all living things .. where would you go ? These " cities " can be build and then one can become two and so on until the entire earth is a decent place to live in. In the same way as one radiant individual is of benefit to his immediate surroundings, one radiant community will be of benefit to a much wider spectrum.
I may not come back here after this incarnation but I would love to leave behind me the premises of a better world for those who follow me to live into .

Loving kindness
mudra

[14 Chakras]

Mudra quote: "Imagine there was a city where people would eat organic food everyday, where children would be raised with a good sense of spiriituality and wisdom , where you could work less and have more time to share with your relatives and friends, where there was no criminality and people from the youngest to the oldest could live harmoniously with each other in respect of mother earth and all living things .. where would you go ?"

This is a wonderful vision Mudra. It is worthwhile contemplating how one might achieve it.

Are there any cities in the world that meet this vision? I cannot think of any. Have others set out to create utopia on earth before? I would guess in our history, many have done so. Why hasn't it worked?

Perhaps the problem is that here, in this lower level of consciousness we are trapped in, the human ego, it is not possible to create a utopia like the one you've described. You can't solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created the problem in the first place. The collective consciousness on planet earth right now is focused on the separate self. It's all about comparisons to others, and it results in conflict. The fruit of the ego consciousness is conflict and suffering.

Will this change if we say, no ego in this city, just love? I don't think so. How would the laws in this land be enforced? If we say only organic food and no crime, how would we enforce that? If someone brings in non-organic food what do you do? Do you ban them? If someone steals from another what do you do? Do you throw them out of their house? What about their families?

We must change the inner to change the outer.

Throughout our recorded history, empires have come and gone, political philosophies, economic philosophies, academic philosophies, many with the ultimate goal to create the perfect state to erase the human suffering and create the utopia on earth. They have all failed.

It doesn't matter how many rules we make, or contracts we create or idealistic pledges we made, there will never be a utopian society manifest here until we deal with the cause and core of the problem in the first place.

I suggest the cause and core is first and foremost, our own ego illusions. And second, the fact that we have wolves in sheeps clothing in this world who will come in and destroy, or do their best to destroy, any idealistic group or society that is born.

There are all sorts of energies playing out at finer vibrations that result in the suffering that happens here. Even at Avalon / Camelot, a lot of conflict erupts, even with the interviewers and their witnesses. Until we learn how to protect ourselves from negative energies and influences, including the influence of our own egos, I do not believe a utopic society is possible. First change the inner, then the outer will reflect the change...

What do you think?

[mudra]

Although through the human history many communities, societies and empires have come to fall we are witness at the same time that new communities, societies and empires have been built.
Life is immortal and can't do anything else than go on.

14chakras " We must change the inner to change the outer this is true".

This is true as is true as well that the changes taking place in the outer world are a reflection of the changes taking place within each individual as his journeys on this plane and grows in consciousness.

The radiant zones have'nt started with Camelot or Avalon . They are part of the changes already taking place in the society at large .

According to GENt ( global ecovillage network) 93 ecovillages have already been set up in Europe .
And many more worldwide.

The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living "sustainable plus" lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out.

Network members include large networks like Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka); EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal); the Ladakh project on the Tibetian plateau; ecotowns like Auroville in South India, the Federation of Damanhur in Italy and Nimbin in Australia; small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociación in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl, Mexico; urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage and Christiania in Copenhagen; permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters, Australia, Cochabamba, Bolivia and Barus, Brazil; and educational centres such as Findhorn in Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, Earthlands in Massachusetts, and many more.

GEN's main aim is to support and encourage the evolution of sustainable settlements across the world.
http://gen.ecovillage.org/about/index.html

The movement of establishing new ways of life has already begun and has proven functional .
Those of Avalon aiming at the construction of radiant zones are just part of an already existing transformation that is taking place in the society at large and worldwide. Welcome this .

We are loving the world awake ..It's taking place .We are making the quantum leap and we are all participants in what is taking place .
Time has come to let go of our old pair of shoes and step into the new ones.
We could'nt envision perfection if perfection was'nt already within each of us .
Utopia does'nt exist in the sense that I don't personnally see the sky as the limit.
Dreams are part of the human nature .With our dreams we can move mountains.

Loving kindness
mudra

[BROOK]

As I said Mudra:

I truly bless your radiant zones..may they be built on Knowing and Freedom....and not social structure devised on anything less.


This thread is about so much more than radiant zones....it is about Raising Social Consciousness, Knowing, Freedom and Responsibility for the whole world

[BROOK]

Ultimate Reality and War

several months ago..I ran across someone who wrote something and claimed..all of our problems are because of the "Jews"...I got angry (EGO)...then I made a statement in tears and anger...on a thread called "who am I"..this part I want to share...

Who am I? I'm a mother of three sons, and one grandchild. I'm a musician, I'm the one you pass at the market when shopping...I cry at sad movies, and happy endings. I'm the one you honk at at the traffic light because I'm changing the radio station and not paying attention to the light. I'm the one who can't stand to see the starving children in deprived countries. I'm the one who stood by and watched the twin towers fall in disbelief. I'm the one who watched the United States go to war for the sake of oil and power. I'm the one who woke up to the fact that it is all an illusion...one created to use us against each other.

I'm the one who want's to wake up and find that the illusion is over..that mankind stood up and said ...we are through with your lies...we want only the truth and nothing else will be acceptable. We will stop working your war machine...we want nothing to do with your power agendas. we want to see the starvation end, and the suffering ended. We want the children to be nothing but loved. We hold our future dear to us and will not accept your blaintent lies. we don't care about your boarders...we care about our neighbors...we send them love. We bless them with kindness and giving. We will rebuild our future with strength of compassion. Hate is not a word we use in our vocabulary. Giving is our key to success.

Then and only then will the tears I shed today turn tears of joy. Then mankind can collect the grand prize....the universal prize of humanity shedding it's mask of animal behavior.....and we will be able to join the ranks of Sharing universal love of humanity and creation throughout the universe.



Why do wars start:

This is grossly oversimplified, but it's basically not much different than robbery. That other country has something we want, let's take it away from them. The "something" can be land, resources, people (to convert to a different religion, for work, etc). The "something" can also be power, if the war-starting country perceives "the other guys" to be powerful, and decides to take them out before they get too powerful. Take a big dose of greed, add in a few dashes of fear, and season with a disregard for human life, and you get the recipe for war.

This world was crated complete..one large mass...not separated by countries...boarders...We..the ego driven society made boarders..we made countries...created and formed by WAR...

Sad really..the separation...the isolation...unity for what? A Country? Is that who we are? Are we a country...I am an American? No I'm just me..living in a nation..that was created from the struggle of war based on Freedom that is slowly being taken away. Created by EGO and society structure..and above all...Power over other nations

That is the Ultimate Reality of War
social Consciousness needs to rise above the injustice..above the EGO based decisions that are laid out, and take back our power of Knowing the truth

[mudra]

Originally Posted by BROOK

As I said Mudra:

I truly bless your radiant zones..may they be built on Knowing and Freedom....and not social structure devised on anything less.


This thread is about so much more than radiant zones....it is about Raising Social Consciousness, Knowing, Freedom and Responsibility for the whole world

I have never considered it otherwise Brook.
I believe we all do our best here.
I have seen many here working in the direction of bringing light and wisdom and support to others .
Blessed be their path and blessed be yours.
Blessed be the radiant zones and blessed be your thread .
I wish you well.

Loving kindness
mudra

[14 Chakras]

Mudra,

Thanks for sharing the links on the GEN, interesting stuff. I'm definitely all for sustainable communities being the way of the future, and we have to start somewhere right?

Brook,

I like your last post but want to share an understanding about the ego, that I'm sure we already know, but is always good to have a reminder for us all

The ego is not something we can just talk about and it's gone, it's very much there until we summit the mountain by surrendering the last illusion. This is the spiritual path, and it is quite a journey.

As long as we seek any definition for who we are, we're feeding the separate sense of identity, the illusions of separation, we're feeding the ego.

The I AM, is beyond definitions, it is a state of Being in the Now.

Many people on the spiritual path exchange their materialistic ego for a spiritual one. There is really no difference in the big scheme of things. Either we are in Oneness with all life, or we are the ego. Whether we define ourselves as the mother, the victim, the champion, the awakened one, or whatnot, it's all ego.

The key I think, is to cease to see self as separate, the focus is no longer on who I am, because I AM that I AM and I AM Being here Now.

"I'm a mother of three sons, and one grandchild. I'm a musician, I'm the one you pass at the market when shopping...I cry at sad movies, and happy endings. I'm the one you honk at at the traffic light because I'm changing the radio station and not paying attention to the light. I'm the one who can't stand to see the starving children in deprived countries. I'm the one who stood by and watched the twin towers fall in disbelief. I'm the one who watched the United States go to war for the sake of oil and power. "

All of the below is a definition of who you are that is based on illusion. Your true Self is well beyond these definitions and in order to be reborn into that identity, you will need to surrender who you think you are for who you really are. You must give all in order to receive all. It's akin to giving up some pocket change for a million dollars, but how fervently we here hold on to the pocket change out of fear we will lose, rather than knowing the million dollars is the reward for giving what we thought we had.

Not pointing fingers, I'm working on overcoming ego here myself and it's an ongoing journey. I just think it's a good thing to discuss the traps of ego, especially in a thread in part dedicated to the ego.

[BROOK]

And you are right...I did write it in anger...and it was clouded in EGO...that is why I added it...and stated it was from EGO....
Then I highlighted "it's an illusion...one created to use us against each other."


We are so much more..and it cannot be expressed in words..but feeling and emotion...The true master..the one that knows "I AM" does not speak it in words...they cannot..it is much bigger then words...it is UNLIMITED KNOWING...the I AM..and it resides in EVERYONE...waiting to be tapped.

and not one person out there is without it

[Christo888]

EGO has been tossed around quite a bit as if it is something your not supposed to have!!!

My two cents... Our EGO is a necessary program to have in order to function in 3D. You will never get rid of it you just reprogram it!!! We are in charge of what is programmed into us and self-awareness is a new program of ego.

Once the ego is understood-reprogrammed then Harmony and Balance is the foundation of being a creator being which requires the use of ego as part of consciousness.

Each of us as a fragment of the Whole containing the potential Whole within each fragment uses ego as part of the program to create with. You'll spend the rest of your waking days trying to remove something that is a part of you naturally... it was just hijacked without us knowing about it when we were born... a synthetic ego I guess could even be descriptive like a fake ID. The 4 systems are what created the fake ego in us... government, medical, education, and religion; a synthetic christ or anti-christ that we all are.

personal responsibility is understood through cause/effect of ones actions, learning knowledge develops self-awareness, and putting into action the 4 laws develops the creator in us all. Who is being swallowed back into the whole?

[BROOK]

Ego

Is it really you?

I am born...I am the son of the Prince of Wales...I'm in line to be the next king of England. Everything around me is rich and posh. I want for nothing. My freedom to go in the public is infringed by cameras and reporters...I was raised to lead a Country. Everything around me reflects who I am...it was my destiny to be a King.


I am born...I am the son of a poor man in South Central Los Angeles....my brother is a gang member...I don't know how to read and write properly...it was not a priority...I'm going to grow up to be a gang member.....it was my destiny to be a gang member.

These are reflections of Social Consciousness..being termed the identity...

It is from others that you get the idea of who you are. They shape your center. This center is false, because you carry your real center. That is nobody's business. Nobody shapes it. You come with it.
You are born with it.


So you have two centers. One center you come with, which is given by existence itself. That is the self. And the other center, which is created by the society, is the ego. It is a false thing - and it is a very great trick. Through the ego the society is controlling you. You have to behave in a certain way, because only then does the society appreciate you. You have to walk in a certain way; you have to laugh in a certain way; you have to follow certain manners, a morality, a code. Only then will the society appreciate you, and if it doesn't, you ego will be shaken. And when the ego is shaken, you don't know where you are, who you are. The others have given you the idea.
That idea is the ego.


Try to understand it as deeply as possible, because this has to be thrown. And unless you throw it you will never be able to attain to the self. Because you are addicted to the center, you cannot move, and you cannot look at the self. And remember, there is going to be an interim period, an interval, when the ego will be shattered, when you will not know who you are, when you will not know where you are going, when all boundaries will melt.
You will simply be confused, a chaos.
Because of this chaos, you are afraid to lose the ego. But it has to be so. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains to the real center.
And if you are daring, the period will be small.

We all have egos...it's getting to the center that counts..to get to the center..to attain the unlimited knowing...or you can forever stay where you believe you must stay with the ego....but it is not the real you...and my ego is not the real me....I am much more..and so are all of you
The ego is plastic..not real..

going to the real center..the self..the true self, everything changes, everything settles again. But now this settling is not done by the society. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises. But this is no longer the order of the society - it is the very order of existence itself.

It is what Buddha calls Dhamma, Lao Tzu calls Tao, Heraclitus calls Logos , it is unlimited KNOWING. It is not man-made. It is the VERY order of existence itself. Then everything is suddenly beautiful again, and for the first time really beautiful.

The difference is just like the difference between a real flower and a plastic or paper flower. The ego is a plastic flower - dead. It just looks like a flower, it is not a flower. You cannot really call it a flower. Even linguistically to call it a flower is wrong, because a flower is something which flowers. And this plastic thing is just a thing, not a flowering. It is dead. There is no life in it.
You have a flowering center within. That's why Hindus call it a lotus - it is a flowering. They call it the one-thousand-petaled-lotus. One thousand means infinite petals. And it goes on flowering, it never stops, it never dies.

This is not to say..forget who you are..or your current life experience....but to attain and use the unlimited knowledge of who you really are