Philosophical Foundations

Recently, I've been doing some reflection on my own active experimentation as a result of my leader's journey I began last year on www.1freedombuilder.com.

Upon trying to express some of those reflections, I came to a particular revelation in my process.  The revelation is basically centered around one single premise....

We have separated ourselves from who we are and continue to believe that in that separation we are actually "living."

The learning for me from this revelation, albeit not new in the context of the infinite reality that I have yet to embrace...is that we are making all of this human experience up from either what runs us or what we "choose" to attend to.

There are some thoughts I have that it is all a part of a grand scheme out of which we are participating but not aware of.  There are also those moments when I have the faint realization that I sense the reality of it all, but that often fades with the next desire that floats by....

I once listened to a guru once who asked us if we could suspend expectation for a little while.  At that time, I wasn't capable of understanding what he meant.  Even now, it is only a wondering, not really a conceptualizing.

The bottom-line...assuming there is one?<G>

We choose to follow the ego into the trap or we don't. 

If we don't fall into the "trap," then we surrender everything.  When I think of that moment of surrender, the first thing that comes up is fear.  Next, all the questions of the ego.  Obviously, surrender is impossible at this stage for me...

So, next what do I do when I realize I'm choosing the greater of two evils?

I agree to make it up as best I can.

Once we as human make that bifurcating leap, choosing not surrender of the ego, but the ego life, we begin to then take on the mechanics of living the journey of human experience as driven through ego.

What to do, or think or model?

The first thought I have is to "go" for it.  Dream my biggest dream, hold the greatest tension realizing in the end, it is all an illusion I'm making up.  NO, people are not an illusion and the war and peace we generate is not an illusion, it is real for the ego life and is felt as an experience.  Yet, we have to understand we are "making it up."

The duality entered from the ego choice permits me to examine the other side of the duality of making it up.  The other side is that we are not making it up at all, we are merely fulfilling our destiny.  I am not that familiar with the concepts of karma and dharma, but I think I just described them in a different way.