While mowing the grass last night it came to me that the attacking and jousting for position isn’t about whether there is abuse or not abuse, what was right or wrong, or even the way it is treated or not treated, but rather a more subtle yet ferocious component, it is the fear of no love.
I have mistaken this for the strength of love, but it is actually velocity of fear.
Many of the old Masters and wise teachers have all alluded to this; you get to live your life based on fear or on love.
What we are experiencing is as old as time, the two energies showing their true natures, two sides meeting and clashing, the polar opposites opposing each other.
Fear is False Events Appearing Real, so what we really have is the battle between the truth and what is not the truth.
Don Miguel Ruiz writes, “You know, most people around the world believe that there is a great conflict in the Universe, a conflict of good and evil. Well, that is not true. It’s true that there is a conflict, but the conflict only exists in the human mind, not in the Universe. It’s not true for the plants or the animals. It’s not true for the stars and the trees, or for the rest of nature. It’s only true for humans. And the conflict in the human mind is not between good and evil. The real conflict in our mind is between the truth and what is not the truth, between the truth and lies. Good and evil are just the result of that conflict. The result of believing in the truth is goodness, love, happiness. When you live your life in truth, you feel good, and your life is wonderful. The result in believing lies creates what you call evil; it creates fanaticism. Believing in lies creates all of the injustices, all of the violence and abuse, all of the suffering, not only in society but also in the individual. The Universe is as simple as it is or it is not, but humans complicate everything.” Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is really this simple, it is or it is not.
What we are arguing about is what is or what is not.
Who is or who is not.
It isn’t complicated or deep and children do this well.
Don Miguel writes, “"As little children, we are completely authentic. We never pretend to be what we are not. Our tendency is to play and explore, to live in the moment, to enjoy life. Nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way. This is our true nature before we learn to speak."
This is what I believe Jesus meant by believing like little children; to be in the truth, to walk with the truth, to see the truth, to be authentic.
Read more from Don Miguel on this subject in Carl’s blog,
www.messyguru.typepad.com Titled, "Being Effortless."
What Don Miguel stated, “The result in believing lies creates what you call evil; it creates fanaticism.” Fanaticism is the key component that makes up cults or extreme religions; they are not based on extreme love.
Fanatics are extremists, and from my experience of the FALC they all believe in lies… Lies, which create evil.
The lies I am speaking most generally about is, that they believe they can wash away reality and that it will no longer exist, and that is one major lie.
The mother of all lies that follow.
They have complete faith in something that isn’t real, their faith and trust is placed fear.
And this act alone creates the fanatical responses, the evil energies we feel attacking us. We do not feel the energies of love, but the biting words of fear.
And sometimes after they bite us, they come back with ‘love’ words; they try hiding their fear with kind words, for even their own evil scares them.
What I hadn’t considered or understood was the level or degree of evil and lies they had faith in, and how frightened or terrified they are to have it disclosed and revealed…
However, I recall vividly the moment all my true lies collapsed, when all I had faith in evaporated and the terror it left me standing in…and yet in the exact same moment when my world collapsed a grand new one was born, the world of truth.
And I truly became like a child again. I didn’t hear what people were saying, but I watched their actions. Words became meaningless, actions was the true path I followed.
This world of truth became a spectacular landscape which was very easy to walk in, it was steady and never changing, and there was nothing I had to learn, do or believe in, it was all there in front of me.
I gave up all past beliefs and thoughts, and simply walked in life with eyes of a child.
