Being Your
Self,
Finding Your
Self
When I was a
young
teenager
everyone
used to
say just be
yourself.
Also find
yourself.
The ever
changing
body/mind of
nerves and
sense organs
with its
feelings,
sensations,
emotions,
instincts,
beliefs and
tendencies
is the ever
changing ego
and is not
our true
Self. It has
been called
the little
self as
opposed to
the big or
higher Self.
The supreme
Being or
Self of God
is not the
same as your
higher self
but it is an
emanation or
outflowing
from God and
Christ thus
part of and
one with it,
but not It
in totality.
To find
yourself
retiring
from the
sensory
world of
normal
consciousness
is needed.
Fasting,
resting and
avoiding
distractions
like tv,
internet and
radio is
needed in
order to
hear your
inner voice,
your
conscience, your inner
self.
In this
state of
hermetic
isolation
and sensory
deprivation
one can pray
or
supplicate
and reach
out to God
and Christ
for
direction
and
communication.
The Buddha
Sakamuni who
is the
equivalent
of Christ as
witnessed by
John said in
the
Mahāyāna
Mahāparinirvāṇa
Sūtra,
“The
Self (ātman)
is reality (tattva),
the Self is
permanent (nitya),
the Self is
virtue (guṇa),
the Self is
eternal (śāśvatā),
the Self is
stable (dhruva),
the Self is
peace (siva).”
That peace
is your
higher Self
the real
you, your
essential
spirit.
Sakamuni
Buddha goes
so far as to
declare that “in
truth there
is the Self
[ātman]
in all
dharmas
[phenomena]”.
This is
important
because
looking at
the physical
material
world from a
Gnostic
point of
view, you
say to
yourself
this is All
the work of
ignorance
through the
Demiurgos
Yaldabaoth
and can
become
repulsed by
it.
In reality
the Spirit
lies within
all
phenomenon
of matter as
its essence.
Nothing can
exist
without that
Divine
essence in
all
creation.
But that
essence was
and has
ignorantly
been used in
creation so
we see the
strange
occurance of
blood
sucking
insects and
mass murder
in war,
which are
ignorant
uses of the
spirit
principle.
The body and
mind with
its
sensations
and emotions
are a
function of
the ignorant
use of the
spirit
essence and
are not the
real you.
Who you
really are
is peaceful,
stable
(unchanging),
virtuous
versus vice,
eternal and
permanent.
Samsara or
the material
world is not
the Self but
Nirvana is
the Self and
paradoxically
is the
essence of
all Samsara
or unlasting
material
creations
even though
they are
ignorantly
created.
Things like
rainbows,
trees and
lakes are
beautiful
yet in
reality
copies or
reflections
of their
true nature
in material
form and
therefore
essentially
Divine but
not really
since they
have been
copied using
the ignorant
substance of
non-eternal
matter.
Seeing the
Eternal Self
of God's
Spirit in
the
fleeting,
transient
nature of
the material
world and
not clinging
to it or
craving it is
wisdom. It's
being
dispassionate
for all
things that
are
transient.
Ask
yourself
will it last
forever?
So why should I
cling to it
or hanker
after it?
Seeing the Divine Self in others even when they are lost in ego and the senses (and being unkind to you!) is a good discipline.
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