THE WAY TO THE PRAY - GOD

                                                             PRAY THE GOD

             THERE ARE MANY ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY HAVE FOUND GO THROUGH THEIR DEEP SUFFERING, AND THERE IS THE CHRISTIAN EXPRESSION "THE WAY OF THE CROSS" WHICH I SUPPORSE POINTS TO THE SAME THING.

         WE ARE CONCERNED WITH NOTHING ELSE HERE.

     STRICTLY SPEAKING, THEY DID NOT FIND GOD THROUGH THEIR SUFFERING, BECAUSE SUFFERING IMPLIES RESISTENCE. THEY FOUND GOD THROUGH SURRENDER, THROUGH TOTAL ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT IS, INTO WHICH THEY WERE FORCED BY THEIR INTENSE SUFFERING. THEY MUST HAVE REALIZED ON SOME LEVEL THAT THEIR PAIN WAS SELF-CREATED.

           HOW DO YOU EQUATE SURRENDER WITH FINDING GOD?

      SINCE RESISTENCE IS UNSEPERABLE FROM THE MIND, RELINQUISHMENT OF RESISTENCE-SURRENDER-IS THE END OF THE MIND AS YOUR MASTER, THE IMPOSTOR PRETENDING TO BE "YOU" THE FALSE GOD. ALL JUDGMENT AND ALL NEGATIVITY DISSOLVE. THE REALM OF BEING, WHICH HAD BEEN OBSCURED BY THE MIND, THEN OPEN UP. SUDDENDLY, A GREAT STILLNESS ARISES WITHIN YOU, AN UNFATHOMABLE SENSE OF PEACE. AND WITHIN THAT PEACE, THERE IS GREAT JOY. AND WITHIN THAT JOY, THERE IS LOVE. AND AT THE INNERMOST CORE, THERE IS THE SACRED, THE IMMEASURABLE, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE NAMED.

              I DON'T CALL IT FINDING GOD, BECAUSE HOW CAN YOU FIND THAT WHICH WAS NEVER LOST, THE VERY LIFE THAT YOU ARE? THE WORD GOD IS LIMITING NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THOUSANDS OF YEAR OF MISPERCEPTION AND MISUSE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT IMPLIES AN ENTITY OTHER THAN YOU. GOD IS BEING ITSELF, NOT A BEING. THERE CAN BE NO SUBJECT- OBJECT RELATIONSHIP HERE, NO DUALITY, NO YOU AND GOD. GOD-REALIZATION IS THE MOST NATURAL THING THERE IS. THE AMAZING AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE FACT IS NOT THAT YOU CAN BECOME CONSCIOUS OF GOD BUT THAT YOU ARE NOT CONSCIOUS OF GOD. 

             THE WAY OF THE CROSS THAT YOU MENTINONED IS THE OLD WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT, AND UNTIL RECENTLY IT WAS THE ONLY WAY. BUT DON'T DISMISS IT OR UNDERESTIMATE ITS EFFICACY. IT STILL WORKS.

           THE WAY OF THE CROSS IS A COMPLETE REVERSAL. IT MEANS THAT THE WORST THING IN YOUR LIFE, YOUR CROSS, TURNS INTO THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO YOU, BY FORCING YOU INTO SURRENDER, "DEATH" FORCING YOU TO BECOME AS NOTHING, TO BECOME AS GOD- BECAUSE GOD, TOO, IS NO-THING.

         AT THIS TIME, AS FAR AS THE UNCONSCIOUS MAJORITY OF HUMANS IS CONCERNED, THE WAY OF THE CROSS IS STILL THE ONLY WAY. THEY WILL ONLY AWAKEN THROUGH FURTHER SUFFERING, AND ENLIGHTENMENT AS A COLLECTIVE PHENOMENON WILL BE PREDICTABLE PROCEEDED BY VAST UPHEAVALS. THIS PROCESS REFLECTS THE WORKINGS OF CERTAIN INIVERSAL LAWS THAT GOVERN THE GROWTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THUS WAS FORESEEN BY SOME SEERS. IT IS DESCRIBED, AMONG OTHER PLACES, IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION OR APOCALYPSE, THOUGH CLOAKED IN OBSCURE AND SOMETIMES IMPENETRABLE SYMBOLOGY. 

THE SUFFERING IS INFLICTED NOT BY GOD BUT BY HUMANS ON THEMSELVES AND ON EACH OTHER AS WELL AS BY CERTAIN DEFENSIVE MEASURES THAT THE EARTH, WHICH IS A LIVING INTELLIGENT ORGANISM, IS GOING TO TAKE TO PROTECT HERSELF FROM THE ONSLAUGHT OF HUMAN MADNESS.

HOWEVER, THERE IS A GROWING NUMBER OF HUMANS ALIVE TODAY WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENTLY EVOLVED NOT TO NEED ANYMORE SUFFERING BEFORE THE REALIZATION OF ENLIGHTENMENT. YOU MAY BE ONE OF THEM.

ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH SUFFERING-THE WAY OF THE CROSS- MEANS TO BE FORCED INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN KICKING AND SCREAMING. YOU FINALLY SURRENDER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T STAND THE PAIN ANYMORE, BUT THE PAIN COULD GO ON FOR A LONG TIME UNTIL THIS HAPPENS. ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN MEANS TO RELINQUISH YOUR ATTACHMENT TO PAST AND FUTURE AND TO MAKE THE NOW THE MAIN FOCUS OF YOUR LIFE. IT MEANS CHOOSING TO DWELL IN THE STATE OF PRESENCE RATHER THAN IN TIME.

IT MEANS SAYING YES TO WHAT IS. YOU THEN DON'T NEED PAIN ANYMORE. HOW MUCH MORE TIME TO YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED BEFORE YOU ARE ABLE TO SAY, I WILL CREATE NO MORE PAIN, NO MORE SUFFERING,? HOW MUCH MORE PAIN DO YOU NEED BEFORE YOU CAN MAKE THAT CHOICE?

IF YOU THINK THAT YOU NEED MORE TIME, YOU WILL GET MORE TIME- AND MORE PAIN. TIME AND PAIN ARE INSEPARABLE.

IF YOU ARE RUN BY YOUR MIND, ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE NO CHOICE YOU WILL STILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR UNCONSCIOUSNESS, AND YOU WILL CREATE FUTHER SUFFERING, YOU WILL BEAR THE BURDEN OF FEAR, CONFLICT, PROBLEMS, AND PAIN. THE SUFFERING THUS CREATED WILL EVENTUALLY FORCE YOU OUT OF YOUR UNCONSCIOUS STATE.

WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT CHOICE ALSO APPLIES TO FORGIVENESS. I SUPPOSE. YOU NEED TO BE FULLY CONSCIOUS AND SURRENDER BEFORE YOU CAN FORGIVE.

"FORGIVENESS" IS A TERM THAT HAS BEEN IN USE FOR 

2000 YEARS, BUT MOST PEOPLE HAVE A VERY LIMITED VIEW OF WHAT IT MEANS. YOU CANNOT TRULY FORGIVE YOURSELF OTHERS AS LONG AS YOU DERIVE YOUR SENSE OF SELF FROM THE PAST. ONLY THROUGH ACCESSING THE POWER OF THE NOW, WHICH IS YOUR OWN POWER, CAN THERE BE TRUE FORGIVENESS. THIS RENDERS THE PAST POWERLESS, AND YOU REALIZE DEEPLY THAT NOTHING YOU EVER DID OR THAT WAS EVER DONE TO YOU COULD TOUCH EVEN IN THE SLIGHTEST THE RADIANT ESSENCE OF WHO YOU ARE. THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF FORGIVENSS THEN BECOMES UNNECCESSARY.

AND HOW DO I GET TO THAT POINT OF REALIZATION?

WHEN YOU SURRENDER TO WHAT IS AND SO BECOME FULLY PRESENT, THE PAST CEASES TO HAVE ANY POWER. YOU DO NOT NEED IT ANYMORE. PRESENCE IS THE KEY. THE NOW IS THE KEY.

HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN I HAVE SURRENDERE?

WHEN YOU NO LONGER NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION.