Finding the Right Reason

I wonder why life is being compared to a roller coaster ride.  I do love roller coasters specially the excitement it gives when you are the top then rushing down on an almost ninety degree fall while you almost have to puke your guts out. Roller coasters are really exciting. It scares the hell out of me but at the same time it is fun. Perhaps, it is the ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ that makes it comparable to life. When we are at the top, with our ecstasy and joy, we pray and hope that it will forever stay that way. But life as we know is not like that. Unfortunately, sooner or later, we dive down. But unlike roller coasters, we don’t fall with the feeling of excitement but it is of agony.  With this, some people think that life is cruel and it should not be that way. That pain should not be a part of it.

We all have our fair share of pain and despair. We know that physical pain will not last that long but it is the emotional and psychological pain that last longer. But then again, the time it takes for the emotional pain to completely heal would depend on the individual’s perspective on how he looks at things: whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.

Heartbreaks. They say, this is one of the most difficult things to handle.  A lot would really be having difficulty in ‘moving on’ most specially if they have been attached to their partner for quite a long time. Letting go indeed is very difficult. But if you are not able to let go, wounds will never heal. Suffering will persist. And how would we let go then? Just find the right reason.

A very close friend of mine once asked, “are we dating the wrong person?”. “No we aren’t. There is no such thing as a wrong person.” That was my answer. I have never considered them as 'wrong persons' for people come for a purpose.  I have enumerated to her perhaps the reasons why I have met them, like one was instrumental for my coming out as gay, the other led me back home, and another made me realize that I was not alone in this world. And I am not just talking about relationships. Every time when my life seems at its lowest, I believe deep inside that it has to happen, and that it has a purpose. And whatever that is, it is always for the better. I may not be able to find the reason today, but sooner or later, I will later thank this day for allowing me to learn and helping me survive.

So when you think you are the lowest point of your life, believe that there is a greater purpose why you are experiencing it right now. Instead of sulking and lingering on the pain, change your mindset. Be positive. Our mind is our worst enemy. It plays games on us. But once you are able to tame it well, it will be our greatest ally. With it we can do great things.

Don’t let your thoughts torture your soul. You are here to experience the joy of what physical reality can offer. Our soul is self-replenishing, self-sustaining for it is ever growing. But it is weakened by the negativity of our thoughts. Let it draw its strength and let it heal by believing that the world is full of goodness, peace and love.

Namaste.

Why Am I Here?

You look like you are in a deep thought.

Nah. I’m just listening to Amethystium’s Ethereal song while trying to observe the ‘life’ around. Made me ask, what really is the purpose of life? Why am I here?

You forgot?

Did I know?

Yeah. You do know. You are just so preoccupied with your physical reality that you have forgotten WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Hmmm. You lost me there.

You are not your body. I hope you still remember that. Your body is just a physical manifestation of your thoughts and feelings. You create your body as you create your own reality.

I’m still not getting you. But, go on.

There is a consciousness within you. And it is the consciousness of your soul. Your soul is part of a greater whole, which also has its own consciousness. It is a collective consciousness. It is Universal. Your soul is part of it as it is part of you.

It is just like what Jesus said, that I am in you and you are in me, or something like that, right?

Indeed. To put it in another analogy, the Universal Consciousness is like your mind and body. It has its own consciousness but it is also ‘built up’ of other consciousness and ‘bodies’. Your cells, for example, they are driven by their own individual consciousness doing things ‘automatically’, while your mind is not even directing their actions. And because of this collective consciousness it forms the whole physical body.  

Got it. But does that explain my purpose in life?

This Universal Consciousness is always in a state of becoming. It is ever expanding. It continues to grow through the never ending experiences it gain from itself and through the individual consciousness, that which you are one of. Your physical reality is just one of the outlets that which the Universal Consciousness can grow. There are other realities aside from the reality that you are into right now.

Whoah! You mean, there are other realities out there?

Multitudes of realities. Your consciousness can shift from one reality to the other. When you are dreaming, you are shifting your consciousness to another reality which is equally real and as vivid as your physical reality. Even if you are awake, that ‘dream reality’ continues to ‘live’. It does not stop when you are awake. It remains in motion as well as any other reality that you have. But because you are so focused on your physical reality, you ‘lost contact’ with your other realities. Your dream reality is just one of them.

So how can I get in touch with my other realities then?

There are many ways to 'reconnect'. One is by recognizing that your physical reality is just one of the other realities. We can talk about this some other time since we have to answer your primary question, ‘why are you here?’.

Okay, so why am I here then?

Your soul is here to experience the joy, love, and peace of which it can express through many realities including your physical reality. You are not here to pay your ‘karmic debt’ which you might think you have acquired from your past lives. Yes. You have been in many lives as you are now through your other realities. You have with you immense knowledge and experiences from these lives that you are taking part of.  You are not here to redeem your soul in the after life, for you have never been condemned. In death, your physical body may degenerate but your soul will continue to live on for it is eternal. Your soul will then reassess its experiences as it adds up to the vast knowledge and wisdom that it has gained as it contributes to the unending expansion of the Universal Consciousness. Your soul will then plan out its next adventure and may choose to be reborn.

Oh man! That’s a lot to digest. But it is slowly making sense now. 

As what your other teacher (Seth) has said,

"You are here to aid in the great expansion of consciousness. You are not here to cry about the miseries of the human condition, but to change them when you find them not to your liking through the joy, strength and vitality that is within you; to create the spirit as faithfully and as beautifully as you can in flesh."

Namaste.

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This is dedicated to those who are travelling with me in this journey. May our spirits find strength, courage, love and joy as we continue to walk towards our destiny. 

Breaking Away from Karmic Debt

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”

Galatians 6:7

Karma, the law of cause and effect, has always been one of my guiding principles in life. What ever you do, it always has its consequences. It can either be good or bad, depending on what you planted. However, according to some philosophies, the current status that we are in right now is the result of our past lives’ actions. Thus, there is what we call pre-determinism. It was difficult for me to digest. I can understand that my current action has its own respective results yet I can not take the idea that my past lives’ ‘mistakes’ are affecting my present conditions and the things to come. You may call this karmic debt. And they say, we are paying it in this lifetime.

There are times when frustrating events burden me, then I ask myself, ‘Is this bound to happen because of what I did in my past?’ Though I have started to accept the belief that these things, perhaps, are meant to be, it just leads me to another disturbing thought that ‘we are at the mercy of our past actions and that there is NOTHING we can do to change it’. This still had to be resolved within myself.

Reading Seth Speaks – The Eternal Validity of the Soul, gave me another nudge towards understanding WHO I TRULY AM, and that includes my past lives. I am not asking you to believe me on this since my truth may be different from yours. Yet this is what i choose to believe in. He, referring to Seth, said that our current situation is predetermined by our soul before we were born. Our soul decides to which kind of life it will live in this lifetime hoping that it will add up to the experiences that it has amassed from its multi-dimension personalities and past lives. It is not because we are doomed by our previous ‘mistakes’ and that our current life is bound to repay those ‘debts’.  Yes, we are in control of our life. We are not constrained. We are completely free to do our will. As what Seth has always been reiterating,

“And as I have said time and time again, you form the physical reality that you know.”

The things that are happening right now are caused by our thoughts, desires, and emotions, and not by predetermined events caused by our past mistakes.

In my search to resolve my belief of not being able to do something to change my karmic past, I came across these incorrect understandings of Karma,

In Buddhism, karma is not pre-determinism, fatalism or accidentalism, as all these ideas lead to inaction and destroy motivation and human effort. These ideas undermine the important concept that a human being can change for the better no matter what his or her past was, and they are designated as "wrong views" in Buddhism. The Buddha identified three:

• Pubbekatahetuvada: The belief that all happiness and suffering, including all future happiness and suffering, arise from previous karma, and human beings can exercise no volition to affect future results (Past-action determinism).
• Issaranimmanahetuvada: The belief that all happiness and suffering are caused by the directives of a Supreme Being (Theistic determinism).
• Ahetu-appaccaya-vaada: The belief that all happiness and suffering are random, having no cause (Indeterminism or Accidentalism).

With this I have found my resolve. I am free. I am not subject to my past mistakes. If I did act wrongfully in my past life, I can correct them now, in this present moment.

Thus, I came to this conclusion,

Before you were born, the stage has been set, the conditions have been established in advance, but the outcome is still undefined. It is up to you then on how you want your story to end. It is only you, and no one else, who chooses your destiny.

Namaste.