What's Beyond what We Know?
What’s Beyond the Human Mindset as we Know It?
From within the human mindset, fear-based “problems” cannot really be solved. You can shift them around, manipulate them, and transfer them, but the human mindset is the problem-creator, and is itself the problem. The problems we encounter within the human mindset are just steps for transcending this mentality. We spend our whole lives trying to out-wrestle some particular Achilles’ heel. It may change form, shape, setting and personality, but it just keeps coming back, and we just keep on resisting it, fighting against it, denying it, and giving up about it. You may see ten faces of it, but it can usually be boiled down to one, if you want to know. If you don’t want to know, you can play with it for a few more years or lifetimes. This core problem expresses itself in many symptomatic ways. We doctor it with this medicine or that solution or another approach, but it just plays hide and seek with us. Anxiety is its chief indicator, however. If you have anxiety, you can again see that you have not found the real problem, only the symptom. Whatever you call your problem is not it.
Suppose that a lot of weedlings keep sprouting up in your mind’s garden and you keep chopping them down, pulling them up, or setting fire to them, but you don’t realize they all come from one root. You will never be able to keep ahead of that root’s productivity. Find the root. It is underground and it is hidden from sight, but it is there. All of the “problems” on the surface spring from an “underground root.” You thought your garden was just poor soil, that you planted bad seeds or that some neighbor did it at night while you were asleep. You are disgusted, worn out and ready to just get rid of the apparent causes of the whole problem. Declaring war on the weedlings hasn’t worked, however; in fact it just seems to make more of them.
It is a human trait to wage war on unwanted things. Such war-making doesn’t work, but it does bear an important lesson. In that sense, the weedlings and the failed war-making are there to boost us into the missing level of our awareness. To get to that missing level, however, we have to deal with the “root” and not just with the weedlings. It is not a question of our being a bad, dumb or inefficient person.
The cause of human problems is unknown and therefore mis-diagnosed and mis-treated. Abuse is one of our biggest human complaints. Everyone feels to some degree abused. However, upon closer inspection, what we find is that the source of all abuse is an inside job, and arises from the “root.” What we think is the cause of our “problem” never is. I make that categorical statement to shock you and to get your attention. Your attention is on the weedlings, and that does very little good. I want you to place your attention on the root and what it means.
To save you some time, I will give you a clue here, that the root is our story. Our unconscious story about our self and the universe creates all of our problems. We think that our story is realistic, but it is not. Our story is based upon fear and fear does not give us true information. Fear gives us a very opinioned view of life, but one that appears to be realistic. This opinionation passes off as awareness, but it is not. Therein lies the source of anxiety and suffering and the possibility of our liberation from the effects of the root.
We are not making free choices in life until we get to the root. Free choice is not getting to decide which weedling to pull up next. Our choices are automated reactions. There is virtually no freedom in the human mindset. We talk all the time about how we live in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but we do not. We live in the home of the gutless and the land of the trapped, not that different from the dictatorships. Each human being lives in his own inner dictatorship of fear and its resultant problems and false solutions. I am not saying that it’s our fault. It is not. I am not saying to feel guilty. We feel guilty enough. I am not saying to try harder. We are worn out.
I am saying that there is a road less traveled by which we can discover the root, see it for what it is, and rise to our true awareness. Only in this manner is our energy re-directed into other potentials and not trapped in the root and its weedling system. When this re-direction occurs, wel see no more weeds, only opportunities for more growth. Every weed becomes a flower. No more weed fighting is necessary for us. Even if we do fall back into it temporarily, it is short-lived and soon becomes re-directed.
Even though we walk through what appears to be the valley of death, we need fear no evil, because there is none. A grand table of delicious food is set before us, which we never saw before, because of the presence of what we thought were enemies and their weeds.
Love, not fear, is our shepherd, and always was, but we didn’t know it. . .
From within the human mindset, fear-based “problems” cannot really be solved. You can shift them around, manipulate them, and transfer them, but the human mindset is the problem-creator, and is itself the problem. The problems we encounter within the human mindset are just steps for transcending this mentality. We spend our whole lives trying to out-wrestle some particular Achilles’ heel. It may change form, shape, setting and personality, but it just keeps coming back, and we just keep on resisting it, fighting against it, denying it, and giving up about it. You may see ten faces of it, but it can usually be boiled down to one, if you want to know. If you don’t want to know, you can play with it for a few more years or lifetimes. This core problem expresses itself in many symptomatic ways. We doctor it with this medicine or that solution or another approach, but it just plays hide and seek with us. Anxiety is its chief indicator, however. If you have anxiety, you can again see that you have not found the real problem, only the symptom. Whatever you call your problem is not it.
Suppose that a lot of weedlings keep sprouting up in your mind’s garden and you keep chopping them down, pulling them up, or setting fire to them, but you don’t realize they all come from one root. You will never be able to keep ahead of that root’s productivity. Find the root. It is underground and it is hidden from sight, but it is there. All of the “problems” on the surface spring from an “underground root.” You thought your garden was just poor soil, that you planted bad seeds or that some neighbor did it at night while you were asleep. You are disgusted, worn out and ready to just get rid of the apparent causes of the whole problem. Declaring war on the weedlings hasn’t worked, however; in fact it just seems to make more of them.
It is a human trait to wage war on unwanted things. Such war-making doesn’t work, but it does bear an important lesson. In that sense, the weedlings and the failed war-making are there to boost us into the missing level of our awareness. To get to that missing level, however, we have to deal with the “root” and not just with the weedlings. It is not a question of our being a bad, dumb or inefficient person.
The cause of human problems is unknown and therefore mis-diagnosed and mis-treated. Abuse is one of our biggest human complaints. Everyone feels to some degree abused. However, upon closer inspection, what we find is that the source of all abuse is an inside job, and arises from the “root.” What we think is the cause of our “problem” never is. I make that categorical statement to shock you and to get your attention. Your attention is on the weedlings, and that does very little good. I want you to place your attention on the root and what it means.
To save you some time, I will give you a clue here, that the root is our story. Our unconscious story about our self and the universe creates all of our problems. We think that our story is realistic, but it is not. Our story is based upon fear and fear does not give us true information. Fear gives us a very opinioned view of life, but one that appears to be realistic. This opinionation passes off as awareness, but it is not. Therein lies the source of anxiety and suffering and the possibility of our liberation from the effects of the root.
We are not making free choices in life until we get to the root. Free choice is not getting to decide which weedling to pull up next. Our choices are automated reactions. There is virtually no freedom in the human mindset. We talk all the time about how we live in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but we do not. We live in the home of the gutless and the land of the trapped, not that different from the dictatorships. Each human being lives in his own inner dictatorship of fear and its resultant problems and false solutions. I am not saying that it’s our fault. It is not. I am not saying to feel guilty. We feel guilty enough. I am not saying to try harder. We are worn out.
I am saying that there is a road less traveled by which we can discover the root, see it for what it is, and rise to our true awareness. Only in this manner is our energy re-directed into other potentials and not trapped in the root and its weedling system. When this re-direction occurs, wel see no more weeds, only opportunities for more growth. Every weed becomes a flower. No more weed fighting is necessary for us. Even if we do fall back into it temporarily, it is short-lived and soon becomes re-directed.
Even though we walk through what appears to be the valley of death, we need fear no evil, because there is none. A grand table of delicious food is set before us, which we never saw before, because of the presence of what we thought were enemies and their weeds.
Love, not fear, is our shepherd, and always was, but we didn’t know it. . .
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