Seeking our Good

Everybody is seeking their good non-stop, their good as they see it. Everybody wants their good. No one will take less than their absolute good, even if it means breaking the law. In fact, that is the only reason anyone breaks the law. Seeking your good, however, in a world like this is a treacherous occupation, and so we develop a very defensive posture. We focus this search for the good upon certain people, certain objects or substances, or favorite activities, usually unconsciously. If and when this search fails, we may switch our focus. However, the desire and pursuit of the good, whatever we consider it to be, cannot be eradicated.

The good, as we perceive it, is limited and therefore scarce, and subject to not getting it or losing it. All of our power struggles, including war, are due to this perception that the good is limited. Unawareness of the Unlimited Good is the cause of anxiety.

Our perception is that someone may block our good or withhold it: someone may leave us. Our perception is that certain events may block our good or withhold it: our house may burn down. Our perception is that someone may take our good: someone else may get the job I want. These perceptions create anxiety. Threats to our good are anxiety-producing because we are not functioning with spiritual awareness.

While you are in hot pursuit of your good, you are anxious. When you give up the pursuit of it, you get depressed. So we are always caught between trying harder and giving up. Neither one works because all visible, defined, finite goods are symbolic of some invisible, undefined, infinite good.

The dilemma here is that we don’t know what the invisible good is or where it is located. We only know the finite symbols of the good and we do not realize that they are just symbols. For instance, we don’t know that the desire for the good is infinite, or that the good itself is infinite. And more importantly we don’t realize that we are that which we seek. This lack of knowledge is called anxiety.

Let’s say that we are seeking the finite good of acceptance or at least to avoid rejection. We struggle and manipulate to obtain this missing good, but we fail. No one can control the acceptance factor in others because it is an inner condition of one’s own mind. What does finite acceptance represent? Infinite Acceptance or Wholeness.

Or let’s say that one is seeking wealth. What does the finite goal of wealth represent? Perhaps infinite security or infinite abundance. Wealth as an outer condition comes and goes. Wealth as a finite variable cannot be controlled. Inner wealth is not a variable. Inner wealth is infinite if we are conscious. Usually we are not conscious and so we are anxious.

Spiritual wholeness and wealth are facts, but their symbols are finite and changeable. Unawareness of our spiritual wholeness and wealth leads to anxiety-producing symptoms and behaviors. Our story makes us feel inadequate, impotent or deficient. We blame this victim experience on God, on others, on circumstances, and on ourselves. Blame requires punishment. Punishment solves nothing. Only awareness of wholeness and wealth is required. Awareness of wholeness and wealth then manifests in the finite outer world. The Infinite Good is a joyful reality. The rest is just a painful story.

Circumstances are the result of perception. Circumstances show your inner belief system. Things are always thoughts first. If the Infinite Good was not real, you could not have desires for some finite good. Circumstances are pictures of your belief system, your story. When your story changes, your circumstances must change. When you realize the Infinite Good, circumstances will change. As long as you believe in good- and-evil, your circumstances will reflect that. Good-and-evil are just a story that you believe. No wonder anxiety is necessary.

Any time you have pain you are assuming that your Infinite Good is not a present reality. This assumption occurs because you are not present or in reality. You are still hooked on your ego story. Fear is controlling your awareness. You are temporarily blinded to the reality of the Infinite Good. Anxiety registers that blindness. Thank God for anxiety. Thank God for pain. It’s your chance to wake up to the Ever Present Good.

First of all, you have to face something. You are defining your good in terms of what you don’t want. You don’t know what you want. You only know what you don’t want as symbols. You have limited symbols of your good, and that is what makes them seem bad. There is no bad. Bad is just an idea. Finite good is also just an idea. Finite bad and finite good always go together as a pair of opposites. We get hung up between them because we can’t figure out what is bad and what is good, and even if we could, we would not be able to control their movements. Good and bad move of their own accord and you have very little to do with either. You just go up and down with the waves.

Infinite Good, however, is below the radar screen. It does not even show up for the five senses to grasp it. Infinite Good cannot be contained within any finite concepts or control. Why would you need to control life if it is all absolutely, infinitely, unconditionally, and completely Good beyond our wildest imaginations and earthly knowledge and experience. How can you know the truth of this? Just let go of your story and it will appear. Our story is the only finite good-versus-evil that exists. There is not even one smidgeon of bad anywhere in this entire universe, just your opinion that there is. Let go and fly!

How can you know the fact of the Infinite Good? You will have to reason it out and then test it. What we are now assuming only seems reasonable. Actually it is insanity. How can geniuses like us buy into insanity? That is the better question. Indifference and skepticism seem sane, but they only produce more and more anxiety for which we need more and more inane and insane self-medication. There is nothing to medicate, nothing to fix. All we have to do is wake up, become aware, and let go of our story of sickness and brokenness. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It ain’t broke. It doesn’t need fixing. Why fix nightmares, just wake up!

The idea of evil starts with one mistaken idea, and snowballs all the way downhill and crashes into the wall of war and the apparent experience of death. But you will have to reason out the truth of this. You will have to trace it back yourself and see the thousands of mistakes made in your story which culminates in what is called tragedy, illness, crime or death.
So if all 6 billion people on earth believe in evil, does that make it so? If every human who ever lived in the history of the world believed in evil, does that make it so? You have to decide. There were a few who did not, and that explains why Jesus said “Resist not evil.” Why resist something which does not exist?

You can go back to the beginning of time and watch it in slow motion, or you can just step into the Now, and you will know. Only the testimony of your senses tells you of evil, wrong, bad, pain, tragedy, suffering, aging, sickness or death. Your senses are materialistically indoctrinated by the religion of materiality and mortality.

Your senses do not tell you the whole truth. They report only symbols or symptoms, not Truth. Truth is gigantic. Truth is infinite. Truth can’t be put in a brain. The brain is floating in an endless ocean of truth and energy. You are not your brain. You are not your senses. You are not your body. You create your brain, your senses and your body. Every few months your entire body and brain have been replaced. You could just as easily replace your story. In fact, much easier. And when your story changes, your body changes and the whole world changes. Consciousness creates everything. Perverted consciousness creates the story of good and evil. True consciousness is the Infinite Good. We are not truly conscious and that is why we are anxious.