Written by Mathew Naismith
It's all very simple, strip away the
controlling ways of the ego and all you are left with is pure awareness and
wisdom, a state known by many as oneness, zero point, God or what ever, it's
all of the same state void of the influences of a controlling ego.
For numerous people, the ego calls this
state God for a very good reason, how else within an ego controlled reality
could the ego comprehend this state of pure awareness and wisdom, a state of complete
neutrality, without blowing this state out of all proportion?
The ego justifiably and wisely keeps a
connection to this state by doing what the ego does best, inflates everything
so it is able to comprehend this state of neutrality, the problem with the ego
is when it becomes in total control. When this occurs, any connection or
awareness to this neutral state becomes obscured or even unknown. This is
atheism at its best but it's not Buddhist atheism, to my knowledge anyway.
Buddhist
atheism; simply means there is no inflation or
pretentiousness in regards to this neutral state, there is no higher or lower
state either even of consciousness, there is simply ego and non-ego, aware and
not aware. On the other hand, main stream atheism simply refutes anything not
of science and/or of the five senses. Giving that science and the five senses
are of pure ego, it's understandable why there are fundamental differences
between Buddhist atheism and main stream atheism.
I should be honest here, I do not follow or
am I well studied in Buddhism, Taoism or any other ism or ideology; all my
awareness comes to me through my own experiences. I should also say that not
all experiences are detected through the five senses with people like me either;
many of our experiences are undetectable by the ego. Experiences come through
awareness; you are just simply aware void of any ego expressions. How often do
we become aware through no reason? This is pure awareness. A controlling ego on
the other hand does quite the opposite; we can feel all the experiences we like
and still know little and still be as unwise as ever.
In saying this, it is important that our
ego detects and becomes aware of some of these experiences, after all, all
experiences are of the ego as well. If our ego is wise, the ego will learn from
these experiences, if not wise, the ego simply won't learn, even after many
centuries of learning and experiencing.
So how does the ego become wise? It's not
through experiences and/or knowledge, it's simply being aware of the
controlling ways of the ego, after all, the ego is simply an unaware state of
consciousness. A true teacher in my mind will teach awareness, not knowledge.
Awareness; is not knowledge. As I have stated before in my posts, the reason
for this is that knowledge is of motion where awareness is is of
motionlessness. The ego often makes the mistake in deceiving us to believe
awareness and knowledge are the same when their simply not. All motion is of
the ego, this pure awareness in this state of neutrality is simply not of
motion.
Now, the reason why this state of pure
awareness is also known as nothingness, is to do with there being no motion and
a state of total neutrality, this means yin and yang, negative and positive,
bad and good, love and hate, etc, or neutralised, they become as one and not
separated.
Yin and yang are depicted as separate
entities, when in their separate states, they are of the ego, however, when as
one, they become this pure awareness, and yes, they are of one, this pure
awareness, as they are also of two, pure ego.
The ego has always existed, this of course
means yin and yang has also always existed. Only the ego (motion) can create an
ego, therefore the ego (yin and yang) has always existed. Also, this state of
pure awareness couldn't create the ego for it is not of motion. Another thing
to consider, all starting and ending points are creations of the ego, of time
and space, it's the ego that creates everything as of the universe itself, it's
all created by the ego. Everything has always existed, of course an ego in
control simply can't comprehend this and understandably so, there has to be a
starting point for the ego.
However in saying all this, it is wise not
to separate pure awareness from pure ego for this within itself is of the ego
as of all separations are. As this state of pure awareness is of awareness, so
is a state of pure ego no matter how limited the awareness might be in this
state, it's still a form of awareness, at times usually of a state void of wisdom
when the ego is in total control.
It's wise to be aware that, negatives and
positives, love and hate, bad and good, dark and light, yin and yang, are all
of the ego, the more we separate everything, the more unaware we will become
and of course the more destructive we will be......How obviously destructive is
the light to the dark? Light should represents awareness but it simply doesn't
in a world controlled by the ego, the light (awareness) simply shouldn't to be
destructive to anything but it presently is being expressed in this way.
Pure ego is simply destructive to
everything, even eventually of itself, this is it's nemesis and it's nature.
Pure awareness on the other hand is constructive to everything because everything
is of awareness to one degree or another.
It is also wise to stay away from the
perceptions of higher and lower states or of an ultimate state of being, for
all this depicts is pure ego as there is again a depiction of separation within
these kinds of perceptions. At no point is this state of pure awareness and
neutrality depicted, by the people who are truly aware of this state, as being
an ultimate higher state of existence, it's just simply neutral, and yes to the
ego, pure bliss and understandably so.
~Mathew
G~
The ego can gain that much control, that judging
what is an expression of ego and what is
an expression of awareness is clouded.
Often the ego will judge an expression of
awareness as of what it is of itself, ego!!
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