Relax. You already have everything that you need. Your nature is already whole.
Your nature is already pure.
There is nothing to obtain. You just have to give
up and let go what is covering it.
~ Chamtrul Rinpoche
Buddhism speak of
Buddhanature and by that
mean the truth about man that exists beneath layers of misunderstandings about himself
that one accumulates over the course of life. My friend
Menekse Mermer usually talks about
the child that is inside a person, no matter how old they are. In the same way,
Christianity can talk about
the Nature of Christ,
which is the truth about man.
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to
say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 4:17)
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto
them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,
and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall
lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it
profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a
man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:34-37)
The kingdom of heaven
is near to all who understand Jesus' teaching and therefore repent of their selfish
life. Living as a follower of Jesus is done by reading, understanding and living by
Jesus' teachings in the four gospels.
And when he was demanded of the
Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The
kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo
there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:20-21)
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that
I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth
the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe
me for the very works' sake.(John 14:10-11)
What is inside man?
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (flesh), and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63)
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you? (1 Corinthians 3:16)
The spirit is the consciousness that gives life
to the creatures of the earth and causes the bodies of all creatures to be alive.
Jesus said that the words he spoke were life-giving to the thoughts that are in
contact with both the spirit (living causes) and the body (the effects in life).
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that
was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.(John 1:3-4)
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but
now is my kingdom not from hence. (John 18:36)
The kingdom of the Jews
was a selfish material kingdom that lacked the understanding of the unselfish life of
the spirit. Being a follower of Jesus means living an unselfish life and trying to do
God's will all the time.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God. (John 3:3)
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit. (John 3:5-6)
It is by doing what God wants us to do, every day
and not only at the Sunday service and at the prayer meetings when we meet other
followers of Jesus, but also when we meet unsaved people and we can ask: "Do you
have a problem that you want me to pray for?"
God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved....And these signs
shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall
speak with new tongues....they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
(Mark 16:15-18)
Now someone might say that you have no power to cast
out evil spirits and heal the sick. But it says that it is not us who shall cast out
evil spirits - but Jesus! Same thing with healing the sick. We shall lay hands on the
sick, but it is Jesus who shall heal the sick. We shall speak a word of knowledge and
be only channels of God's power.
Now someone might say that it is difficult to
follow all of Jesus' teaching in the four Gospels. But there is a summary in the Our
Father:
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
heaven,
All are brothers and sisters and we must approach God as we
approach our own parents.
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
God wants his kingdom to be
made manifest on earth by men having their thoughts in heaven causing effects on
earth.
Give us this day our daily bread.
We must trust
trust that God provides for us both materially and spiritually.
And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
We can all miss the
mark in our dealings with other people and creatures and others can hurt us, but we
must forgive them, so that we can live a godly and peaceful life life.
And let us not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
God will never
lead us into temptation. But we can pray to God that he will save us from the evil
one.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
Our task for us to have peace and live a good
life, is to forgive those people who we think have wronged us. (Matthew 6:9-15)
- Hermes Atar Trismegistus
George Adamski devoted a chapter about
an ancient extraterrestrial civilization in his book
Cosmic Philosophy called Triterians:
The Triterians had no religion as it is accepted today - they were a race of
scientists, for they worked not on supposition or myth but on facts. They had no gods
but recognized the all-intelligent force and themselves as expressers of it. They did
not make the mistake of allowing their mortal mind to judge the creator for they
understood cause and effect. They gave no thought to any division between themselves
and the cosmic consciousness; they acted with a freedom and assurance of results.
Therefore life was peaceful and harmonious. They were not bound by gods or devils for
their only state of awareness was that of interblended action. They recognized the
necessity of duality in creation but they did not separate the force into good and
evil.
Due to the lack of friction or resistance to the life force their bodies
remained always youthful and death as we know it did not exist.
Cosmic
Philosophy by George Adamski page 80.
This book describe the way back home to
the impersonal life united with the cosmic cause. A life with a receptive mind that
can think Gods ideas and express the God life and living with love to the whole
Creation.
George Adamski made a
checklist for anyone who wanted to live a selfless life.
Practice:
An easy method that you may use if you wish to keep a check on your thoughts
through the day is this:
Make a ledger
On left side write:
Unselfish
— Understanding.
Thoughts that remind me of my Cosmic Unity with All Life.
And on right side:
Selfish
Disturbed
Dissatisfied
Judgment of
others.
Seeing effects not causes.
Become the observer of your own
mental process and place a check under the column representing your thoughts. At the
end of the day tabulate your score. If this is done over a period of time you will
find that your old thought habits that caused confusion and disorder in the mind and
body have disappeared.
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