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Accept Change and Accept Life
Started by Tree Hugger, Aug 20 2005 06:19 PM
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Posted 20 August 2005 - 06:19 PM
Nothing stands still according the Hermetics. All things are in motion. All is change. Everything is becoming.
Both modern science and ancient Hermetic principle, prove the same truth. Everything is in the constant state of becoming something else. The you of today, is not the you of yesterday. Even your skin cells change so often that in seven years from now you will not have one of the cells you have now, for they would all have died and been replaced. This cycle continues on every seven years. All plants and animals also have their cycles of change. There is not one thing, which does not change. But why is consciousness always on the move?
Death is the molecules of the human body changing into another form. Nothing ceases existence. The consciousness itself moves forward out of the body and continues to move to new experiences.
Its very probable that Hermes Trismegistus, the father of the Hermetics, and the one calling himself Seth, dipped into the same wellspring of wisdom, for Seth explains why everything is in action.
Everything is in the act of becoming or changing from one state to another state. Birth, growth, maturity, decline and death are the natural states of everything.
Consciousness is a dimension of action.
The inner vitality of the universe has the desire to completely materialize. This it cannot do. But, it is this desire, which results in ACTION, and ACTION underlies all structure. It continually attempts to materialize through creation.
It is through this action and re-action; this unfolding of action upon itself, that identity is formed.
Action must create identities by its very nature, because without Identity there would be nothing, upon which action could act.
Identity will continually seek stability.
Stability is impossible because action seeks to undermine stability and destroy it because action involves constant change.
Identities are never stable
Consciousness without action would cease to be conscious.
The first dilemma is Consciousness seeks to be physical.
The second dilemma is that since Consciousness is continually in motion and seeks constant change, it is at odds with Identity, which seeks no change.
The third dilemma is ego consciousness.
Ego consciousness results when consciousness tries to separate itself from action. But no identity can be possible without constant change.
This is why one of the seven Hermetic principles is that everything vibrates, changes and is in constant flux. Nothing remains the same. It cannot and remain conscious.
Each consciousness including humans have many facets or personalities within each separate identity, and exist on many different dimensions simultaneously, each one not being aware of the other part of itself.
Each Identity or inner self is aware of each facet and has the job of screening off the other facets from each other, so they do not bleed into other realities.
Everything occurs in the Mind of One.
Human life is just one of an infinite number of the physical expressions of the One, enfolding upon itself.
This continuous desire to become totally physical could explain not only simultaneous existence, the abundance and variety of the physical worlds, and the constant cycle of reincarnation.
Let the doubter, look at a fractal, which is a pattern of the Mind of the One, and find there is no end to the levels, as one enfolds into another. Everything is fractal because everything is of One Consciousness.
The one who accepts this wisdom will also see death as just another change, and will understand the nature of spiritual evolution through reincarnation. This is because as much as consciousness seeks experience and expression in the physical, it cannot forever remain in one form. Change can become your friend instead of your enemy.
You can see the inevitable changes as part of the natural flow, or remain inflexible and stand against nature. The one who goes with the stream has an easier time than the one who is rigid and fearful.
We are all changing. Every second is a new start. Accept death as part of life, and peace can be yours. Why not celebrate this wonderful consciousness and learn to see life as only one of many expression of a multi-faceted Identity, whom we will someday be able to perceive.
Everyone evolves and changes because this is the nature of consciousness to evolve and become something else. The possibilities are infinite, exciting and nothing to be feared.
Love life as it loves you.
Tree
Based in part on the words of Seth
http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/seth/Andy3.htm
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Posted 21 August 2005 - 04:47 AM
The Buddha taught that all things in life have three inescapable factors underlying them. To understand each of them at an experiential level is to come to a true knowledge of reality. These three ‘marks’ or ‘characteristics’ are: impermanence (or anicca), suffering (or dukkha) and not-self (or anatta).
Impermanence
One of the key aspects of the way Buddhism looks at the world is the recognition that all things are impermanent. Our own physical make-up, the world around us and in fact the whole universe is constantly changing – nothing is static. We are born, we grow old and we die. From moment to moment our mental and physical processes are in constant movement. This may seem an obvious point but what the Buddha taught was that we tend to try to ignore this fact.
We don’t want to face the truth that we are subject to change that we grow old, that we die. What many of us do at a subtle level is to cling to some notion of permanency. It is the clinging to this notion of permanency that in fact contributes to our dissatisfaction and suffering in life.
This side of the veil, you're either growing or dying.
All objects are this way, people, plants, animals,
even the mountains and rocks.
Impermanence
One of the key aspects of the way Buddhism looks at the world is the recognition that all things are impermanent. Our own physical make-up, the world around us and in fact the whole universe is constantly changing – nothing is static. We are born, we grow old and we die. From moment to moment our mental and physical processes are in constant movement. This may seem an obvious point but what the Buddha taught was that we tend to try to ignore this fact.
We don’t want to face the truth that we are subject to change that we grow old, that we die. What many of us do at a subtle level is to cling to some notion of permanency. It is the clinging to this notion of permanency that in fact contributes to our dissatisfaction and suffering in life.
This side of the veil, you're either growing or dying.
All objects are this way, people, plants, animals,
even the mountains and rocks.
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