Is there a key that lets us see through every illusion, or not?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23736)
Australia
January 8, 2020 8:49pm CST
"Every signpost that seems to point the way to the Holiness we seek must be seen for being the illusion that it is . . . for there exists no direction in passing time, let alone a doorway seen as outside of us that opens into the Living Now."
Guy Finlay, an American spiritual teacher said this.
Is he right though?
Jesus, God’s son was such a signpost, and yet, he also told us that the Kingdom of God was within, and yet surely he was both in, and out of us too.
The outer world is not all illusion then, it’s not all that cut and dried, or is it?
I would say that God's love comes alive as it leaves you alive from within you, and so, yes, to connect to others is no illusion, and both the inner and the outer are real.
After all, God really created reality, he did not just create mere illusion.
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Which is the illusion, the keyhole, the key, the door, the outside, or the inside, or nothing at all? Is God the illusion?
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@RasmaSandra (97957)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Jan 20
I think there is the world that we perceive as reality and a whole other world beyond that we only get to know when we are not a part of this world anymore and that is not an illusion. I have had the pleasure to explore some of it and I know my loved ones wait for me.
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
9 Jan 20
Yes, thanks. I get the feeling that there are no real illusions, except for the ones that we create for ourselves.
Everything is somehow, a part of reality. Yes, the other worlds, are not an illusion either.
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@Shiva49 (28371)
• Singapore
9 Jan 20
I recall Swami Vivekananda, “There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God, Himself is your image. 'God created man after His own image.' That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe, we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it!”
So many beliefs and interpretations and maybe our creator is a master illusionist! siva
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
9 Jan 20
All I know is that I am not God, and so I want to find out who is God, if such a being really does exist.
To say that I am God, and that no God is higher than me, is rubbish to me, as I know that this is not true.
If there is a God, I certainly am not the same as him, right now, and if not right now, it means not ever, in my book too.
Why do some people think that they are God?
My thoughts on this:
There is only one God but God, and we are created by God to be us.
We are within God, made by God, but we can never be God.
At best, we can become a partner with God, in crime, so to speak, or in love.
It's up to us, and God gives us the freedom of choice to do so, and to make our own decisions, but the consequences of such decisions, God set laws into place to bring us these consequences, as a learning curve for us, so that eventually we might learn to make more loving decisions as God does, and not selfishly based ones, based only around our own selves.
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@innertalks (23736)
• Australia
11 Jan 20
@Shiva49 Yes, I guess that I would give him the benefit of the doubt. He is trying to add some polish to the uncut diamonds that he sees all around himself. Even his polish might rub off on a few of them, I suppose.
Others, might need more roughing up, to become refined and more cut.
His polish is like water on a duck's back, it has no effect on it, these others, because of the wax coverings that they are wearing, protecting themselves, keeping themselves, in their own little cocoon, still uncut.
Only connection to others can begin to cut us, and the polish must always be love. Any other polish, just blackens us rather than polishes us.
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@Shiva49 (28371)
• Singapore
10 Jan 20
@innertalks I think what Vivekananda had in mind was we are uncut diamonds with unrealized potential that lies within, dormant. Some had achieved greatness as human beings that make us wonder at their achievements while the vast majority is left to grope in the darkness clutching at straws to find meaning and peace of mind in life.
All is part and parcel of our creator and in a way divine. Living with such an enlightened lifestyle elevates our day to day lives and to accept the diversity - siva
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