The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it once, but do little. Through misuse understand that people who have never had a glimpse of the "kingdom of the sacred, the infinite truth that lies behind this word, use it with great conviction, as if they know what they're talking about. Or they argue against it, like they know what they are denying.
This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs and statements and deceptions of the ego, such as: My or our God is the one true God and your God is false or Nietzsche's famous statement "God is dead."
The word God has become a closed concept. At the moment it is pronounced, it creates a mental image, perhaps no longer a white-bearded old man, but a mental representation of someone or something outside one and, almost inevitably, something or someone male.
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind them, so the only question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance to enable the person to experience what he says. Do you point beyond itself to that transcendental reality or too easily tends to become only an idea in your head that self create a mental idol? Being
The word explains nothing, but neither does the word God, but Self has the advantage that it is an open concept.
not reduce the infinite invisible to a finite entity. It is impossible to form a mental image of it. Nobody can claim exclusive possession of Being is its own essence and is immediately accessible to the person, as a sense of his own presence, I am understanding that is earlier than I am this or I am that. So there is only one small step from the word Being to the experience of Being
The greatest obstacle to experiencing this reality, is the identification with the mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not being able to stop thinking is a terrible calamity, but generally we are not aware of it so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents us from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being also creates a false self, made by the mind that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found a fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think therefore I am." In fact he had given expression to the basic error: to equate thinking with being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the increasing fragmentation of the mind. "Enlightenment" is a state of wholeness, of being in "union" and therefore in peace. In conjunction with life in its manifested aspect, the world, and with her deepest and unspoken life in union with the Self
The "enlightenment" is not just the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also to the terrible bondage of incessant thinking. What an incredible release!
Identification with the mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments and definitions that blocks all true relationship. Interposed between one and his own self, one to his neighbor, between one and nature, between one and "God" ... is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separation, the illusion that there is one and an "other" totally separate. So forget the essential fact that, below the level of physical appearances and separate forms, "we are one with all that is." To "forget" to say that the person can no longer feel this oneness as self-evident reality. You may think that is true, but I do not know it's true. A belief may be comforting. However, only through experience becomes liberating.
Thinking has become a disease. The disease occurs when things are out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong in cells to multiply and divide in the body, but when this process continues without into account the total organism, cells proliferate and we have a disease. Anoto
it is indisputable that the mind is a superb instrument if used correctly. Improperly used, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, not a matter of "use it" inappropriately, usually not used at all. She uses us. That is the disease. Believing that one is his mind. That is deception. The instrument has gripped One
The beginning of freedom is the realization that one is not the entity that owns it, who thinks. Knowing this allows you to look at that institution. At the moment you start watching the thinker, is activated higher level of consciousness. Then one begins to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. Also realize that everything that really matters-love, generosity, creativity, joy, inner peace, etc ... come from a "place" beyond the mind.
Here begins an awakening ... a "glimpse" ...
Excerpts from the book by Eckhart Tolle "The Power of the mind."
(Disturbed and adapted by Francisco Garcia Huidobro)
