He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.
Manly P. Hall
In the universal law/laws everything, according to Ram Dass is included....
The One looks out on all of it and sees perfection...
There seems to be so much suffering and chaos in the world. It is hard to integrate and include it all into our daily perceptions and experiences. It is hard to accept that even suffering, challenge, destruction, loss, and chaos are integral parts of being. They are.
It is very hard to know how to integrate all the parts of your being...
Our own so called imperfections and flaws, made so by a dualistic mind, are not necessarily considered imperfections in the laws of the universe, either. Our ego's though sometimes considered "nasty" by other personalities and egos...like the spiritual ego...serve a very important purpose in our growth
When we are born, we go into somebody training and then [when we wake up] we go into "nobody" training.
We spend our lives trying to build up this image of being a somebody...we forget who we are. We get lost in the actor and the drama on stage...lost in the "somebody" we created and we enlist the help of others so we can maintain it:
We enter into these conspiracies..."I will make believe you are who you think you are if you make believe I am who I think I am."
Why do we enter into these "conspiracies"? Why do we build and maintain these false senses of who we think we are? Why do we not choose freedom from teh get go? Because our egos somehow make us feel safe. They do have a purpose we do need them
There is a part of you taht wants to be free; but there is also a part of you that wants to be safe.
Too often we value safety over freedom.
Then when we begin to realize who we are...and we get brave...we try to remove the somebody. Sometimes we beat up on this ego in the process of trying to remove it so we can be who we are. We see it as a separate, foreign part, like a cancer that needs to be removed...
the ego is not a cancerous growth...it is a part of all of it.
We need to learn to integrate all parts of who we are: the good, the bad, and the ugly....the darkness and the light. We are the Self and the self...the human and the being...we are meant to experience all of it.
We awaken, not by destroying the ego but by accepting it:
you need your ego in order to survive but not as your master, as your servant...not by destroying thought but by getting beyond thought.
It is all a part of the experience; the learning we are to do here.
You are in school...why don't you try doing the curriculum?"
So, we see and accept the human often lost in darkness. We see that we are unique little lights with dark spots shining amongst other lights. Gently we begin to fall back, back, back away and into the Source of light behind it all....We can only do this if we are not struggling against the seemingly very imperfect ego or the personality that is so much a part of this human. If we are resisting it in anyway, we are "clinging" to it. When we cling, we cannot fall back into the higher dimension of who we are. We can not fall back into stillness, into the still quiet experience beyond thinking and doing.
When you are starting to rest in that part of yourself that is behind your own melodrama, you are just here....
Liberating ourselves requires faith in our spiritual connection
...the more your faith in your spiritual connection...the more you can drown in life and enjoy your uniqueness. And finally, liberation is you ...you are totally unique and you are also the One.
So, it is fine. It all comes together finally...it is nice to get to the stage when it is all relaxed and natural being human
So what do we do? We play the game. We play the human part at the same time we know we are in this world but not of it. We watch it all from back here.
Do not identify with being the actor and do not attach to the fruits of your actions.
What would you do if you are not identified with the actor and were not attached to the fruits of your actions?
Open yourself up to all that you are, and to all of what is and then act with as much integrity as you can
All is well
Baba Ram Dass (2024) Ram Dass- Our Salvation Lies in Our Intuition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sTFhmRZCko
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