Master Charles Cannon January 23, 2010

 “Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening

                 our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the

                                     whole of nature in its beauty.”

                                                                                Albert Einstein

 

     Have you ever considered that everyone is doing the best they can and that everyone’s experience is appropriate for them?  It is through experience that we evolve and everyone’s experience is unique.  Yet, everyone places us at choice in terms of the experience we choose to create for ourselves.  We are thus always at choice within the relative reality we all share.  The truthful question we must ask ourselves is, “Who do we choose to be?”

     We can invest ourselves in illusion and create the experience of egocentric differentiation in which we are separate and different from everyone and everything.  We can also choose the truthful experience of unity and create the experience of oneness with everyone and everything in life.  We are always at choice.

     The challenge is our enculturation.  Theologies of separation have informed our cultures.  You may argue that you are not religious and therefore not affected, yet the same theologies of separation have informed our morals and ethics, and the laws of our nations.  Theology has informed sociology and sociology has informed individual psychology.  We are all thus illusorily enculturated.

     Further, if we are separate from our God, or whatever we term our highest value, we are conflicted.  Individual conflict results in conflicted relationships, families, communities and nations.  Bottom-line, in the majority, we are a conflicted and fragmented humanity.

     The measure of evolving consciousness, both individual and collective, is expansion of awareness.  To evolve, we must grow in self-awareness.  We must progressively become aware of our illusions and transform them into truth.  In this understanding, life experience within a relative reality places us at choice moment by moment.  Again, who are we choosing to be?

     Illusion is life-negative and fear-based.  Truth is life-affirmative and love-based.  The former is exclusive and the later is inclusive.  Illusion fragments and truth unifies.  It is only in substantiated truthful experience that we are one and whole.     While we are always at choice in terms of the experience we choose to have, we must cultivate wakefulness in order to make truthful choices and have truthful experience.  Wakefulness is self-awareness and proportional to it is our choice of either truth or illusion. 

      Ultimately, we must be the truthful experience we choose to have.  We must live our choice moment by moment.  Truth is an experience of being not having.  As the Buddha once said, “We must be the light we wish to see in the world.”  Again, who are we choosing to be?  Yes! 

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