The Seer

The concept of the name of God is one which has fascinated scholars and philosophers from the dawn of time. God reportedly revealed ‘His’ name to Moses via the burning-bush; as recorded in the book of Exodus 3:14. The name Moses heard was, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. Actually, it’s a phrase rather than a name, so what does it mean, and does it have any significance for us today?

In biblical Hebrew, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh is a deceptively simple phrase consisting of the relative pronoun asher sandwiched between two instances of the first person singular of the verb hayah — to be. Ehyeh is most commonly translated as “I am.” Asher is a remarkable Hebrew word that can mean, that, who, which or where, but in this context, is most often translated as that.

Therefore, generally speaking, Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, or I am that I am, can be taken to indicate the self-existence and infinite eternality of God as the Source of all. It indicates the unity between the formless Divine Nature and the essence of all forms.

As Abhayananda comments in his illuminating book, The Supreme Self‘: “I am is an immediately evident fact — perhaps the most evident of all facts. It is not necessary to think in order to be aware I am — Descartes’ assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. I am is self-evident and logically prior to thought, for it is the I of I think.

This I am (Sanskrit: Aham; Hebrew: Ehyeh) is synonymous with consciousness in humankind. It is the constant underlying background, which serves as witness as well as substratum to all possible mental states….

Consciousness is the immutable, static witness; what it witnesses is its own projection in the form of thoughts, feelings and images, as well as the impressions registered by the senses. Consciousness is the subject, the seer, and everything else is the object, the seen.

Consciousness never vanishes; it is the one unfailing constant witness to all the various mental states: for example, in the waking state, consciousness is the witness of two simultaneous levels of activity: the internal one of thoughts, imaginations, etc., and an external one of sense-data from the “objective” world.

In the dream state, consciousness witnesses only on the internal level, viewing the effusive activity of the imagination known as dreams. And in the deep-sleep state, consciousness finally gets a break, as there is nothing at all to witness — but Itself….

There is yet another state of consciousness besides these three already mentioned: that is the state wherein consciousness transcends the Self-imposed limitation of a separate ego-identity — the illusion of being confined to one particular body — and recognizes Itself as universal.

The I experienced in this state is not a different I from the one which has always been experienced; it is the same I, but happily divested of the wrong notion of who I is.

We may call this state nirvana, samadhi, satori, the mystic marriage, oneness with God or whatever we like, it is more precisely however, the startling experience of the expansion of one’s consciousness from its limited personal identification to an unimaginably pure and lucid awareness that knows: I am the one Consciousness of the universe! All this is my Self!”

Surely, it was this same lucid awareness that prompted Jesus of Nazareth to declare: “Before Abraham was, I am.” thus symbolically proclaiming the unity of the Divine Nature (Divine Light) with the consciousness of existence we all experience — a recognition that apparently was quite misunderstood by his hearers and only inspired antagonism.

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In our lives we travel a long road. As babies and infants we’re the headless One unaware of Who we really are. We’re also the headless One unaware of being a special, headed somebody in the eyes of others. A friend’s young daughter brought home a photograph of her class. She named every child until she came to one: “I’ve never seen that child in my class!” Of course, she hadn’t — it was her!

However, this unselfconscious freedom doesn’t last long. As we grow up we learn to identify with our appearance (and dismiss our native headless viewpoint as unreal or mad). We become profoundly convinced we’re the headed one we see in the mirror, the one that others see when they look towards us. As a child I learn to imagine that face over there in the mirror to be here above my shoulders. (Imagine, not see.)

Framing myself in this way, imagining what I look like from several metres through the eyes of others and imposing that regional appearance on this central Reality, I come to believe I am, in my own experience, a separate person, and assume others are in the same condition — for themselves headed, separate and mortal. Now I’m no longer headlessly and timelessly Alone, the Centre of my world — as I was as a baby.

Now, as an adult, I’m ‘one amongst many’, a ‘cog in the machine’, here today and gone tomorrow. I’m the One who has forgotten Who I am, the Prodigal Son lost in the Far Country, the Faceless One become a face in the crowd. Normally we assume this is the end of the story, that this must be as good as life gets. It seems growing up is about finding out who I am as a person and then doing the best with the cards I’ve been dealt. But this needn’t be the end of the story.

But, on looking within and seeing my faceless Reality, I discover I’ve been dealt the highest card in the pack — a sure-fire winner! Taking this Vision seriously, accepting it, saying Yes to it at deeper and deeper levels, a new and exciting chapter of life begins unfolding — the chapter that makes sense of the whole story to date.

Without this chapter I’m like a rosebush that sprouts from the ground, grows stem and leaves and buds, but then fails to bloom. If I don’t see Who I am, I’m not fulfilling my natural potential.

Sometimes people think that when you see Who you are, you’ll no longer identify with being a person. I don’t find this. Of course, it depends what you mean by ‘identify with’. But, seeing I have no head now, am I oblivious to the fact that you see it? Of course not. Do I act in the world as if I don’t have a face? No. Realising I have neither name nor abode, have I now forgotten my name and address? I hope not.

What does change, then? I see that my human identity isn’t central. My face and everything else aren’t here at my centre but ‘out there’ on my periphery — in mirrors, in photographs and videos and in others, just as others are here in me. Living in awareness that privately I am the One whilst publicly I’m Richard, I live a two-sided life.

I have the best of both worlds. I’m like a king in disguise who is no longer fooled by his own mask. Though I appear outwardly as an ordinary citizen, I’m aware of my inner regality. All is within me, all obeys my royal will. As a Sufi dervish once said (according to Rumi) when asked how he was:

“How should that one be, according to whose desire the work of the world goes on? According to whose desire the torrents and rivers flow, and the stars move in such wise as he wills; and Life and Death are his officers … No tooth flashes with laughter in the world without the approval of that imperial personage.”

But as soon as I forget to see, as soon as this Awareness goes out the window — as soon as I overlook this Open Window I’m looking out of — I feel and think and act as if I’m again a two-eyed victim. I have traded my fortune for a pittance. To align myself again with the truth, I must see again — I must see now, returning again to my Eternal Home, the Home I never really left.

Yet even this rhythm of forgetting and remembering arises within the unchanging Self. Nothing has gone wrong. The person who never leaves home doesn’t really know home for he has nothing to compare it with. But the person who has travelled abroad and then returns, now sees home and all who live there with fresh eyes — and loves it, and them, all the more dearly.

What good fortune to awaken to Who we are. I wouldn’t disagree with you if, in spite of acknowledging all the suffering and evil in the world, you felt you’d arrived in heaven — or rather, that heaven had arrived in you. We’ve stumbled upon a wonderful truth — the truth that makes the world go round, the truth that heals and guides and frees us, the truth that is Love.

~ Richard Lang, author of: Seeing Who You Really Are. (Richard will be giving workshops in Byron Bay, Sydney & Perth in March & April. For more deatails, call Sam on 0412 039 050 or go to: >>>Richard’s Site.

Toward the end of the Sunday service at a small Pentecostal church, the pastor asked, “How many of you have forgiven your enemies?”

80% of the congregation held up their hands.

The pastor looked searchingly around, then repeated his question. All responded this time … except one man, a white-haired old fellow named Wally Barnes, who came occasionally with his daughter — a regular attender.

“Mr. Barnes, it’s good to see you here today. Aren’t you willing to forgive your enemies?”

“Don’t have any,” he replied gruffly.

“None at all, Mr. Barnes? That’s quite unusual. How old are you, if I may ask?”

“Ninety-eight,” he replied proudly.

On hearing this, the congregation stood up as one and clapped loudly.

“Mr. Barnes,” the pastor continued, “would you please come down in front here and tell us all how you’ve lived ninety-eight years and don’t have an enemy in the world?”

Waving aside his daughter’s offered arm and supported only by his walking-stick, Wally came down the aisle with a slow but determined gait.

Stopping in front of the pulpit, he turned around, faced the congregation, and said with a grin, “I outlived the bastards!”

~ Sent in by Marg Coombes-Pearce. Thanks Marg.

The fully open heart rests in sweet unknowingness, safe in its own embrace, rushing to meet its own perceived need that dissolves in the grace swallowing it. Dancing its tender dance of sheer delight in its own loveliness, merging with itself everywhere, only this, exquisitely so.

This may sound far off for some people, a place unattainable, a state made available only for a few, but I can assure you that it doesn’t require you to change or to become different at all to know this firsthand. It only requires a willingness to stop. The more we stop and the more we let go, the more our consciousness naturally opens.

The more we question our conclusions, the more the doorway opens for us to have a wider and wider vision. The deeper we see into the reality of things, the more our heart opens to include everything, because if we’re really feeling into our deepest reality and truth, the heart isn’t something that would want to escape from what is here and now; rather, our hearts are already embracing everything. We can allow our hearts to be big enough to be broken.

My teacher called this world “the great heartbreak”. When we really begin to wake up to our true nature, we become more conscious of the suffering around us. We feel the people and the events of our lives more profoundly, not less profoundly. We become more present here and now.

What we see is that, even though our vision may have expanded, even though we may have woke up not just to reality, but as reality, still we can’t control anyone. Everything and everyone has their own life to live, and we can’t just wipe away their suffering because our hearts are open. Although we would love to have everyone wake up and be happy, part of the heartbreak is accepting this moment, this world, just as it is.

Another one of my teachers said, “All true love sheds a tear. It’s bittersweet,” and I’ve found this to be more and more true. The more deeply I love, the more I taste the bitterness with the sweet. It’s not a negative bitterness, it’s a bitterness that makes the sweetness even more sweet. Life is beautiful not just because of beautiful mountaintop vistas and the pristine, clear environment of a high mountain lake. Life is also beautiful in each and every moment.

There is nobility and beauty even when human beings are suffering. Our hearts do not want them to suffer; we want to save them, but the heartbreak is that we can’t do that. The quality of our love, the openness of our heart, still does have a profound effect on the world and others in it. Our hearts just can’t control it — nor would they ever want to.

But don’t ever think that your presence here — your physical, material, individual presence — doesn’t have a great impact on everyone around you, because it does. You can’t ultimately control what’s going on around you, but you do have a great impact. This is the gift we have to give other: this gift of oneness, of union, of a true open heart that comes when our mind opens.

Yes, it will be heartbreaking, and when our hearts break, it will be asked to open even wider, so wide that there’s nothing and nobody to hold onto the heartbreak. But the heartbreak also moves through the transparency of consciousness. If we’re willing to open that wide, to where we’re willing to not just transcend this world, but to inhabit it and embody it, then we become the answer for which we’ve always been looking. Then we become the peace that all beings are seeking.

Sometimes it is disturbing to realize that we’ve been holding onto a pocketful of dreams, but ultimately , it’s liberating. We can let our hearts break; they are that big. Illusion never brings peace, never brings happiness. When we’re done being disturbed by our own illusions, then we start to become astonished — astonished that we aren’t just our illusions, that we’re something so vast and unexplainable.

We’re not something that exists within Heaven or even in the great mystery of being, but we actually are the great mystery of being. One Zen master said, “The whole universe is my true personality.” This is a very wonderful saying: “The whole universe is my true personality.” If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

~ From: Falling Into Grace. by Adyashanti.

~ If you’re new to Adyashanti’s teaching, we recommend viewing his Basic Teachings on the Video page of Adyashanti’s Cafe Dharma.

Many of our negative feelings are the result of beliefs that we’re unconscious of, that is, beliefs that we arn’t aware we’re holding or possibly even thinking. When that’s the case, we just feel bad, and we don’t know why.

Inquiring into, or examining, these feelings by allowing them to be there but not acting on them can lead to uncovering the limiting beliefs that underlie the feelings. That takes a certain commitment to working with one’s feelings and to freedom from the suffering and limitation those feelings may be causing.

Something that’s a little easier to do than this and possibly an easier place to start in freeing ourselves from negativity is to simply notice how the thoughts that you’re aware of make you feel. A good question to ask is: “Does this thought make me feel relaxed, loving, and at peace with life or the opposite? Does it allow me to drop into Essence or does it keep me ensnared in the egoic state of consciousness?”

We often actually choose to dwell on and get more involved in thoughts that make us feel contracted and ill at ease in life, as if doing so has some benefit to us, while all this really does is magnify and sustain an unpleasant feeling and reinforce the mistaken belief, judgment, or fear that gave rise to that feeling. It’s important to examine the effect your thoughts have on you and on your relationships and not just accept them because they’re your thoughts.

Do negative thoughts and feelings, such as resentment, hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, worry, or blame serve you? Do they serve life? Negative feelings not only feel bad, but they often lead us to act in ways that create more negativity, more bad feelings, for others. Does acting out or even expressing such feelings serve you, serve others, or serve life? The result usually only adds to our collective pain as human beings.

Negative feelings are valuable only as signposts that point to a mistaken belief or misunderstanding we’re holding. We can ask ourselves: “What did I just tell myself that caused me to feel this way?” Negative emotions are red flags that show us we’re out of alignment with the whole truth and aligned, instead, with the ego’s (idea of) truth. The ego’s perspective is generally self-centered, self-serving, and narrow, leaving out a bigger, truer perspective. The ego’s perspective often makes us feel bad if we agree with it.

Believing the thoughts that come from the egoic self (the complaining, judgmental, dissatisfied voice in our head) leads to unhappiness, and that unhappiness is unnecessary (we only have to stop believing those thoughts). When we’re aligned with a more complete perspective, with Essence’s perspective, on the other hand, we feel at peace and in love with life, which is how we would all like to feel.

Wanting to feel good in this way is not a selfish act; feeling good is a benefit to not only ourselves but others, because when we feel happy, we are kind to others and we act more effectively and more authentically (more spontaneously from Essence) than when we are unhappy. Happiness is not only our birthright, but our natural state, and a state that allows others we touch to flourish as well.

We can become adept at managing our emotional state by becoming more aware of the thoughts that run through our mind and how these thoughts are affecting us. Some thoughts are neutral, some are practical, but many are judgments, fears, desires, stories, beliefs, and other ideas that are just part of our conditioning or that are the ego’s perceptions and don’t have any real value for life as it is arising in a particular moment. All they do is make us feel bad about ourselves, others, or life in general.

When you begin to examine your thoughts and notice how many of them cause you to feel contracted, fearful, and separate from or opposed to others, you can begin to free yourself from the negativity they can cause within yourself and in your life. You don’t have to be a victim to your thoughts. Once you realize that thoughts that lead to negative feelings come from the ego and have no value, you can choose to not get further involved in them, to not add more fuel to them or speak them.

This isn’t always easy to do, but it does get easier the more you practice it. Isn’t it great that we have the ability to free ourselves from negative emotions? This is our spiritual work.

~ by Gina Lake.

An interview with Eckhart Tolle by Andrew Cohen

AC: What exactly do you mean when you say that the purpose of the world lies in the transcendence of it?

ET: The world promises fulfillment somewhere in time, and there is a continuous striving toward that fulfillment in time. Many times people feel, “Yes, now I have arrived,” and then they realize that, no, they haven’t arrived, and then the striving continues. It is expressed beautifully in A Course in Miracles, where it says that the dictum of the ego is “Seek but do not find.” People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

So ultimately, suffering arises through not finding. And that is the beginning of an awakening—when the realization dawns that “Perhaps this is not the way. Perhaps I will never get to where I am striving to reach; perhaps it’s not in the future at all.” After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future.

That’s an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis — when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless. That happened to me. I was just that close to suicide and then something else happened — a death of the sense of self that lived through identifications, identifications with my story, things around me, the world.

Something arose at that moment that was a sense of deep and intense stillness and aliveness, beingness. I later called it “presence.” I realized that beyond words, that is who I am. But this realization wasn’t a mental process. I realized that that vibrantly alive, deep stillness is who I am.

Years later, I called that stillness “pure consciousness,” whereas everything else is the conditioned consciousness. The human mind is the conditioned consciousness that has taken form as thought. The conditioned consciousness is the whole world that is created by the conditioned mind.

Everything is our conditioned consciousness; even objects are. Conditioned consciousness has taken birth as form and then that becomes the world. So to be lost in the conditioned seems to be necessary for humans. It seems to be part of their path to be lost in the world, to be lost in the mind, which is the conditioned consciousness.

Then, due to the suffering that arises out of being lost, one finds the unconditioned as oneself. And that is why we need the world to transcend the world. So I’m infinitely grateful for having been lost.

The purpose of the world is for you to be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen. And then once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering.

This seems to be everybody’s path. Perhaps it is not everybody’s path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

AC: A long time.

ET: Much longer. A spiritual teaching is there to save time. The basic message of the teaching is that you don’t need any more time, you don’t need any more suffering. I tell this to people who come to me: “You are ready to hear this because you are listening to it.

There are still millions of people out there who aren’t listening to it. They still need time. But I’m not talking to them. You are hearing that you don’t need time anymore and you don’t need to suffer anymore. You’ve been seeking in time and you’ve been seeking further suffering.” And to suddenly hear that “You don’t need that anymore — for some, that can be the moment of transformation.

So the beauty of the spiritual teaching is that it saves lifetimes of –

AC: Unnecessary suffering.

ET: Yes, so it’s good that people are lost in the world. I enjoy traveling to New York and Los Angeles, where it seems that people are totally involved. I was looking out of the window in New York. We were next to the Empire State Building, doing a group. And everybody was rushing around, almost running. Everybody seemed to be in a state of intense nervous tension, anxiety. It’s suffering, really, but it’s not recognized as suffering.

And I thought, where are they all running to? And of course, they are all running to the future. They are needing to get somewhere, which is not here. It is a point in time: not now — then. They are running to a then. They are suffering, but they don’t even know it. But to me, even watching that was joyful. I didn’t feel, “Oh, they should know better.” They are on their spiritual path. At the moment, that is their spiritual path, and it works beautifully.

AC: Often the word enlightenment is interpreted to mean the end of division within the self and the simultaneous discovery of a perspective or way of seeing that is whole, complete, or free from duality. Some who have experienced this perspective claim that the ultimate realization is that there is no difference between the world and God or the Absolute, between samsara and nirvana, between the manifest and the unmanifest.

But there are others who claim that, in fact, the ultimate realization is that the world doesn’t actually exist at all — that the world is only an illusion, completely empty of meaning, significance, or reality. So in your own experience, is the world real? Is the world unreal? Both?

ET: Even when I’m interacting with people or walking in a city, doing ordinary things, the way I perceive the world is like ripples on the surface of being. Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there’s the vastness of being. There’s a vast spaciousness. There’s a vast stillness and there’s a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn’t separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

So there’s no separation in the way I perceive it. There’s no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.

Every phenomenon in the manifested is so short-lived and so fleeting that, yes, one could almost say that from the perspective of the unmanifested, which is the timeless beingness or presence, all that happens in the manifested realm really seems like a play of shadows.

It seems like vapor or mist with continuously new forms arising and disappearing, arising and disappearing. So to the one who is deeply rooted in the unmanifested, the manifested could very easily be called unreal. I don’t call it unreal because I see it as not separate from anything.

AC: So it is real?

ET: All that is real is beingness itself. Consciousness is all there is, pure consciousness.

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Scott’s Dictionary of Ridiculously Sticky Enlightenment Terms

Nondual Fascism: 1. The use of words like oneness, nonduality, consciousness, etc to ignore the beautiful uniqueness and diversity of life. 2. Arrogance caused by mistaking Sameness for Oneness. 3. The act of reducing everything to nothing … or to one thing called Oneness or Awareness.

Awakening Amnesia: Spending weeks, months and even years engaged in spiritual practices and attending to teachings to reach enlightenment, and then one day having an experience and then claiming “there’s nothing to do and no one to reach enlightenment.”

The Dreaming Teacher Syndrome: A spiritual teacher so hell bent on defending his own expression as the only right and true one that he or she has merely identified with a new set of dualistic thoughts (thereby speaking from within a dream about having woken up out of the dream).

Messy-anic Enmeshment: The act of mistaking personality traits of a teacher or someone claiming liberation for a trait intrinsic to Oneness or Consciousness. The personality gets enmeshed with attributes of awakening such that it’s hard to tell the difference.

For example, a peaceful personality by nature might make it appear that Oneness is peaceful. Or a charismatic spiritual teacher might give off the impression that if “Oneness is realized, you’ll be charismatic too!!!” Or a ruthless, even downright rude Zen master personality might make it appear that the only kind of true compassion is ruthless, stern compassion.

A person who prefers mundane, less materialistic atmosphere might make it appear that liberation equals humble anti-materialism, while a person who likes fine wine and nice clothes might give off the impression that “consciousness” is equated with the good life. A person who has a serious or unserious personality by nature who then claims that “consciousness is serious.” The personality is often blind to how its playing into this enmeshment.

The Silence Stalker: That guy on facebook that claims that silence is truth, but ends up noisily posting the most stuff on facebook to make that point.

Judgeless Judging: The act of judging all judgment to be bad

GroupSink: The phenomenon in which a particular spiritual movement or group is privy to a spiritual language that will unify the world, coupled with the failure to see that only those that believe in the language and use it are welcome.

The “No Self” Self: A state in which one comes to believe that she has woken up out of self, while being ignorant of the fact that the belief that she is not a self has become the new story of self.

Level Blindness: The claim that one has reached an absolute realization in which all levels are seen as non-existent, except the level that one is claiming to be absolute.

Wordless Worder: A person who uses a concept to make the claim that all concepts have been seen through.

~ by Scott Kiloby. www.kiloby.com

Absolute and Relative Confusion

A ‘Nondual Fascist’ is somebody who tells you their concept of truth in such a confused yet assertive fashion that they almost make you think the confusion is your own fault!

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If I look confused … it’s because I’m thinking.
~ Samuel Goldwyn

The patient who consults a great many physicians is likely to have a very confused state of mind.
~ Rhazes

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
~ Matthew Arnold

I am confused, therefore I am!
~ Graffiti

The problem of Jesus’ last name is a misunderstanding most Christians have about who Jesus was. Even Pope John Paul II’s book of private reflections, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, contains this metaphysical misunderstanding.

There is a metaphysical distinction between Jesus of Nazareth, the historical human personality, and the Christ as God’s “Only-Begotten Son” (Nicene Creed), the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Ordinarily, when we speak of Jesus, we talk as though Christ were Jesus’ last name.

We say, “as Jesus said to the woman at the well,” or we might say, “as Christ said to the woman at the well,” or again, “as Jesus Christ said to the woman at the well.” This ordinary usage is convenient but it can create a serious problem in understanding not only who Jesus was but also who we ourselves are.

Most Christians, of course, know that Christ was not the last name of Jesus of Nazareth but a title given to Jesus by the early Christians, meaning the “anointed one” or Messiah. Nevertheless, even though we know the origin and meaning of the title, Christ, we still ordinarily use the word Christ as if this were Jesus’ last name in the same way that Smith is used as a last name for persons whose ancestors were blacksmiths. Understanding the origin of the last name doesn’t alter the usage in either case.

What exactly is the problem? The problem comes when we try, in light of this familiar usage, to interpret the words of the Nicene Creed: “I believe in Jesus Christ, the Only-Begotten Son of God.” What we usually end up mistakenly thinking is that the Creed means Jesus of Nazareth is God’s Only-Begotten Son. That is, we mistakenly think that Jesus, and Jesus alone, was God’s Son, and that all other humans are therefore less than Jesus.

That is not what the Creed means. To think so is a serious metaphysical error. And this error is so grave that, unless corrected, it can actually prevent us from taking our place with Jesus in the Christ Consciousness, and later in the Kingdom of the Father. It is the Christ who is God’s Only-Begotten Son, not Jesus.

True, Jesus of Nazareth knew he was the Christ; that is, that he had the Christ Consciousness (and the higher nondual consciousness of oneness with the Father). He knew that, as Christ, he had been directly begotten by God from all eternity. But Jesus knew and preached that the same was also true for us.

We too, according to Jesus, are to become Christ by putting on the mind of Christ, that is, the awareness that we too are directly begotten by God. One of the reasons Jesus called himself the Son of Man was that he wanted us to realize that our reality and destiny are the same as his.

Most Christians make this theological mistake of thinking that Jesus of Nazareth, rather than the Christ, was God’s only-begotten Son. I made it myself, and it caused me a great deal of confusion when my consciousness was trying to realize Christ Consciousness. ….

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~ From: Putting on The Mind of Christ, by Jim Marion