There has been a controversy over the decision by the National Enquirer in America to publish a photo of the body of Whitney Houston . Questions have been asked about the morality of publishing the photo and whether the media should show images of dead bodies .
For me there are no questions of morality involved . If you look at the body, you will see a form without life or energy and this is in reality how are bodies are . The body is only given life by the life force and at death, the life force is removed from the body . The body is only a tool to express ourselves in the physical world .
The soul that is Whitney Houston has not died but is now in a different ‘dimension’ from this one . The death of the body does not really matter as we are not our bodies but have come to identify our self with the body . The body is no more than a shop mannequin and has no feeling or thought .
In reality, Whitney Houston has not died and will never die and that goes for the whole of creation . Death is an illusion which underpins our experience in the physical world . The death of a body is of no consequence and it is only our false belief in death which makes it important .
I’ve only just come across this statement from that lovely man (irony), Pope Benedict made in January .
Talking about gay marriage he said :
This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society.
Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself. The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states.
Hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue.
First, I am heterosexual and know few gay people but have found that surprise, surprise they seem no different from anyone else and seek the same things in life we all do .
Why not having sex or not being married gives Pope Benedict the right to pontificate on family matters, I have no idea but with this statement he shows his complete lack of understanding of God and Life .
He believes it is “God’s Law” that homosexuality and gay marriage should be banned and he looks down on gay and lesbians with a disapproving eye . What a load of crap .
There is only one ‘Law’ which covers everything in Creation and it’s not really a Law at all, but the only thing which can truly be said to exist and that Law is Love . It is not God who disapproves of gay marriage, but Pope Benedict and if you look to the organised religions for your faith, you will ultimately be disappointed because they teach what God is not .
They see God as a judgmental, critical old man who sends people to Hell and chucks the occasional thunderbolt at humanity in his anger . This is not the real God but a projection of our own inner ego .
What Pope Benedict really fears and is the real reason for his comments, is the feminine sexual energy which is inherent in both sexes and is displayed within a gay marriage . From Pope Benedict to the mutilation of female genitalia in some cultures, this energy is feared and repressed . The continuing preference for male priests within the religions is an attempt to deny this energy .
I believe we are coming to the end of the masculine dominated world and we will hopefully move into an age, where the masculine and feminine energies are in balance . You never know but one day there maybe a gay or married Pope, who says “Love Is All” !
He’s a man With a plan Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand He’s Misttra Know It All
We all know someone who is incredibly opinionated and constantly offers advice . After you have been on this Earth for a short period, you normally find their advice is wrong and it is probably best to do the complete opposite of what they say . “Misstra Know It All”, as the song says .
We all share this trait to some degree or other, as it is a cornerstone of our ego’s belief system . Another common aspect to the personailty of the ego is to be ‘right’, as in “I am right” and some people even give up their lives because of it . This can be seen in politics, religion and science where you often find two competing forces fighting to prove who is right . It is alleged the philosopher Giordano Bruno was executed for claiming the Earth orbited the Sun .
At about the age of 4, young children are sent to schools to learn and this goes on for the next 12 years or so . If you go to University, you can be in full time education for twenty years .
In our world, the intellect is praised above all qualities but what is it we learn . We learn what the ego wants us to believe, which is actually false knowledge of the true reality and our real nature . The mind (with a small m) is deliberately filled with all sorts of rubbish in an attempt to deny the true Mind (with a large M) .
Buddhists recommend emptying the mind in meditation so that we can connect with our deeper self and true knowledge . The Zen teaching “You cannot fill a cup that is full” describes this perfectly . In fact, the ‘Know It All’ trick used by the ego is meant to stop you gaining awareness .
The intellect can be a marvellous tool . Without learning I would not be able to write this post or drive a car, but its true purpose is as a servant of the Heart, where we find real learning . The Heart is our true Mind and where knowing comes from . If you want to solve a problem, listen to the Heart not your mind which will offer you a quick fix, but won’t solve the original problem .
In reality, the Heart has only one answer to every problem – Love . This is the answer to everything and is all we really have to learn or more accurately remember . It is what we are and is the only part of us which truly exists .
All we have to do is look at our world and see where the mind has taken us . The answer does not lie in the intellect but our Heart . As a man (Shakespeare) far cleverer than myself, wrote :
The fool does think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool
We are told our emotions are natural to us . Our first act when we are born is to cry and then our first impulse is for need in the form of sustenance from our mother .
Below are some of our ‘natural’ emotions :
Anger
Fear
Need
Guilt
Hate
Pain
Misery
Doubt
Anxiety
I am sure there are others which I have forgotten . Actually, none of these emotions are natural to us . They do not come from our natural state of being but are created by our misguided view of reality .
All these emotions derive from our belief we are separated from God . My view of God is not of an old man with a beard but as Everything. It exists in the body, mind, grass, wind and rain and it is You/Me as well . There is nothing that is not God but we think, we are somehow divided from God .
Scholars of the monotheistic religions spend a lot of their time attempting to decide ‘God’s Laws’ . They give declarations what is right or wrong, from homosexuality to what you should eat and when you should eat it . To be honest, I would have thought looking at the horrors of human history it is obvious God has no opinions one way or other .
God actually has one Law but is not so much a commandment but what we are .
The Law is Love and is the only reality and emotion – it is ‘All There Is’ . Anything else is Illusion .
“My body is a temple and my temple needs redecorating” - Joan Rivers
We give our bodies magic powers . We really believe we are bodies and that we didn’t exist before the creation of our body and will die when our body stops working .
The body is at the centre of the dysfunction in the human Mind . We believe it works automonously from us but really only responds to instructions from our Mind . It doesn’t think or feel, or have any opinions . It is similar to a robot which only acts from its programming .
You are not your body . We live in an imaginary world and the body is at the centre of this illusion . We use it to retain our spiritual separation from each other and the Universe . Without a body there would be no little I Am and we would be able to see our true connection with ‘All There Is’ .
Our world focuses on the body . Our survival gene is linked to our belief in the body and we spend the vast majority of our lives attempting to ensure we have enough for its survival .
The Body does not exist and is a symbol of our dream of separation from God . There is no temple !
“No one can escape God’s Final Judgment . Who could flee forever from the truth ? But the Final Judgment will not come until it is no longer associated with fear . One day each one will welcome it, and on that day it will be given him .
He will hear his sinlessness proclaimed around and around the world, setting it free as God’s Final Judgment on him is received . This is the Judgment in which salvation lies . This is the Judgment that will set him free . This is the Judgment in which all things are freed with him .
Time pauses as eternity comes near, and silence lies across the world that everyone may hear this Judgment of the Son of God” :
Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God . Where is the world, and where is sorrow now ?
PostScript :Of course, God’s Final Judgment is transgender and takes in both masculine and feminine or even those who are in the middle of changing sex . Everyone, in fact .
