Here’s an interesting point of view from one who has walked the path of ascent over many more lifetimes than we have done.
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“Belief hinders the revealing of the Truth. Believing or disbelieving, accepting or rejecting, will not give us understanding. Cleanse the mind first by discerning impersonally all you have read or heard and you will find a silence that is not of time in which the Truth will be revealed to you.
To the atheist, you think you are a disbeliever but you have just another belief which prevents you from understanding. Search vour mind and see what formulations you have created there: then you will realise how ignorant you are of the Real Truth.
To those who are caught up in the various philosophies, religious organisations, etc., examine what these are first before you read another book or you will be merely reading your own conditioning into it. Free the mind from all fear, superstition and belief, and then there will be an immediate transformation, for the Truth is Eternal and Ever-present in the Now.
Immediately we get rid of our mental formulations, our imitations, by understanding what they are and how they have come about, the Truth will be seen instantly. Truth is not a matter of time or becoming. Becoming is always tomorrow and this is moving away from Reality-Truth. Being now, is Truth. If Truth is not Now, it never will be tomorrow. Living in the Now, moment to moment, this is Truth.
There cannot be any memory, or right or wrong, past or future, when we live in the Now; there can only be Love and Affection which is Truth. Being Now, is Real; Being Now, is loving and truly living: Being Now, is Eternal Life in which there is no death. All else is made up in the mind.
Our reactions tell us how our mind is made up, because Truth is not made up, and has no reaction. It is the mind that reacts according to its conditioning; therefore, let us watch our reactions to see how we are caught up. Everyone reacts differently according to his or her mental make-up.
If you believe or if you disbelieve, if you reject or accept, if you feel that it is disturbing your pet ideas, your religious beliefs, if you are in any way mentally disturbed, it shows that you are not free. Your reactions may be automatic, which shows you are bound, hand and foot.
Note your reactions and you will understand the self with its bundle of theories, its formulations, its likes and dislikes, beliefs, ideas, its hates, its jealousies, its antagonisms, its wants.
Then you will know how far you are from the Truth.”
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