The Joyful Jesus
THE JOYFUL JESUS
Rejoice Always
1 Thess 5:16 Rejoice and be glad
Matthew 5:12
Suppose that God is pure bliss and that the world itself, when stripped of all form, is pure ecstasy. Wouldn’t that be a shocker! The world as pure ecstasy? Whoever heard of it! How far we have gone astray? How far we have missed the mark of truth? How much have we wasted our time, energy, money and minds? No wonder we are anxious!
Perhaps our dramas are just designed for contrasting experiences. What a joke! Don’t tell anyone, though. You would just get yourself killed. Remember, the ego is the watchdog, the big brother, the one watching you lest you escape your prison of false beliefs. And not just your ego, but your neighbor’s as well. No wonder we are anxious!
Can you say “Yes” to everything? You could if you were awake to ecstasy. Can you say “Infinitely, Yes.” Enlightenment then means being awake to ecstasy, to happiness, to bliss, to joy, to reality, to the Infinite Yes!
Will saying “yes” get you in trouble at times? Will saying “yes” lead you to doing some foolish things? Yes it will. But don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes.”
Stephen Colbert
“No” is the way we try to protect ourselves in a hostile world. ‘No” is not an ecstasy choice. “No” is a fearful, anxious choice. There is nothing that can hurt you if you are tuned into Peace.
“Rejoice, I say, rejoice always.” The Joyful Jesus, the Laughing Jesus, is not so far off the mark then? Rejoice, not that the bad guys are going to hell, but that there are no bad guys and there is no hell. That would be truly rejoicing about the Infinite Good, and not the separatist, anxious, good guy/bad guy story of good and evil.
For rejoicing, what do we need? Anything that we need that we don’t have right now, is an impedence, an obstacle, a part of the Big Lie. What is the Big Lie? That we are not ecstasy, and that God did not make us out of an ecstasy substance. We are made out of ecstasy, the essence which we mistake for emptiness or space. Another word for ecstasy is light. I am light. I am ecstasy.
Look over your list of requirements of what you must have/achieve before you can have ecstasy. Whatever you find on that list is a list of misperceptions. Creation is an extension of the Creator. If the Creator is ecstasy, then creation is ecstasy. Whatever you have placed on your list of things required for happiness, is the cause of your suffering. You are happiness.
Suffering is your list of what you can’t be, have or do. Suffering is whatever you believe is withholding ecstasy from you. Separation from God is separation from ecstasy. You are not separated from God nor from ecstasy, except in some cock-and-bull story in your mind.
That is why we can truthfully say that anxiety and its attendant suffering is unawareness of the Infinite Good, or Ecstasy. How could you ever experience ecstasy if you are not ecstasy? Yet you have experienced happiness, whether it was from a drug, from winning a game, from sex, from food, from money, etc.
If you were not ecstasy, you could not experience ecstasy. The mind tells us that happiness comes from some outer object, person or event. But one day a sunrise brings ecstasy and the next day sadness. How can the same object provoke happiness and sadness? How can the same woman bring you to heaven (wedding) and to hell (divorce)?
Clearly, you are ecstasy. You give objects/events the power to evoke various experiences. If you could get behind or underneath all events, all experiences, all emotions, all relationships, and all objects you would experience pure bliss. The mind assigns various meanings to various experiences. “What is one man’s food is another’s poison.” Clearly, you create your own suffering by your self-chosen and society-induced belief system. Drop it, and what is left? Pure ecstasy. Without your story of good and evil, you could experience nothing but the Infinite Good. Nothing but ecstasy exists except in the fantasyland of the ego-mind.
Unawareness of your Infinite Good, your Infinite Ecstasy, arouses anxiety in its thousands of faces, which then prompts you to try thousands of remedies, which then brings you to the additional anxiety of perceived failure. All of it is fictional, just a bad dream. Even if everyone on earth dreams this same dream, it is still an illusion. Such thoughts, though illusory, still have the power to change beautiful crystals into ugliness, as Dr. Emoto has amply demonstrated. And, as A Course in Miracles says, you do not have to change the world, just change your mind about the world, and the world will change accordingly.
Awareness of ecstasy, then, is the most powerful force for change we have in this universe.
Rejoice Always
1 Thess 5:16 Rejoice and be glad
Matthew 5:12
Suppose that God is pure bliss and that the world itself, when stripped of all form, is pure ecstasy. Wouldn’t that be a shocker! The world as pure ecstasy? Whoever heard of it! How far we have gone astray? How far we have missed the mark of truth? How much have we wasted our time, energy, money and minds? No wonder we are anxious!
Perhaps our dramas are just designed for contrasting experiences. What a joke! Don’t tell anyone, though. You would just get yourself killed. Remember, the ego is the watchdog, the big brother, the one watching you lest you escape your prison of false beliefs. And not just your ego, but your neighbor’s as well. No wonder we are anxious!
Can you say “Yes” to everything? You could if you were awake to ecstasy. Can you say “Infinitely, Yes.” Enlightenment then means being awake to ecstasy, to happiness, to bliss, to joy, to reality, to the Infinite Yes!
Will saying “yes” get you in trouble at times? Will saying “yes” lead you to doing some foolish things? Yes it will. But don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes.”
Stephen Colbert
“No” is the way we try to protect ourselves in a hostile world. ‘No” is not an ecstasy choice. “No” is a fearful, anxious choice. There is nothing that can hurt you if you are tuned into Peace.
“Rejoice, I say, rejoice always.” The Joyful Jesus, the Laughing Jesus, is not so far off the mark then? Rejoice, not that the bad guys are going to hell, but that there are no bad guys and there is no hell. That would be truly rejoicing about the Infinite Good, and not the separatist, anxious, good guy/bad guy story of good and evil.
For rejoicing, what do we need? Anything that we need that we don’t have right now, is an impedence, an obstacle, a part of the Big Lie. What is the Big Lie? That we are not ecstasy, and that God did not make us out of an ecstasy substance. We are made out of ecstasy, the essence which we mistake for emptiness or space. Another word for ecstasy is light. I am light. I am ecstasy.
Look over your list of requirements of what you must have/achieve before you can have ecstasy. Whatever you find on that list is a list of misperceptions. Creation is an extension of the Creator. If the Creator is ecstasy, then creation is ecstasy. Whatever you have placed on your list of things required for happiness, is the cause of your suffering. You are happiness.
Suffering is your list of what you can’t be, have or do. Suffering is whatever you believe is withholding ecstasy from you. Separation from God is separation from ecstasy. You are not separated from God nor from ecstasy, except in some cock-and-bull story in your mind.
That is why we can truthfully say that anxiety and its attendant suffering is unawareness of the Infinite Good, or Ecstasy. How could you ever experience ecstasy if you are not ecstasy? Yet you have experienced happiness, whether it was from a drug, from winning a game, from sex, from food, from money, etc.
If you were not ecstasy, you could not experience ecstasy. The mind tells us that happiness comes from some outer object, person or event. But one day a sunrise brings ecstasy and the next day sadness. How can the same object provoke happiness and sadness? How can the same woman bring you to heaven (wedding) and to hell (divorce)?
Clearly, you are ecstasy. You give objects/events the power to evoke various experiences. If you could get behind or underneath all events, all experiences, all emotions, all relationships, and all objects you would experience pure bliss. The mind assigns various meanings to various experiences. “What is one man’s food is another’s poison.” Clearly, you create your own suffering by your self-chosen and society-induced belief system. Drop it, and what is left? Pure ecstasy. Without your story of good and evil, you could experience nothing but the Infinite Good. Nothing but ecstasy exists except in the fantasyland of the ego-mind.
Unawareness of your Infinite Good, your Infinite Ecstasy, arouses anxiety in its thousands of faces, which then prompts you to try thousands of remedies, which then brings you to the additional anxiety of perceived failure. All of it is fictional, just a bad dream. Even if everyone on earth dreams this same dream, it is still an illusion. Such thoughts, though illusory, still have the power to change beautiful crystals into ugliness, as Dr. Emoto has amply demonstrated. And, as A Course in Miracles says, you do not have to change the world, just change your mind about the world, and the world will change accordingly.
Awareness of ecstasy, then, is the most powerful force for change we have in this universe.
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