102. The third eye, Part one: The problem, Chapter 1- Our individual behaviour

 

Part one 

The problem: if we look with our two eyes 

The ignorance, stubbornness, resistance, and defensiveness with which we cling to the worldviews, political ideologies, dogmas, rules, and systems built by our superficial individual selves are almost incomprehensible. It’s because we fear ourselves, and we don't want to or cannot free ourselves from them. Why don’t we protect our true selves instead of defending the structures we’ve created? We don’t know who we are or why we exist. Is our life merely a series of random events? For example, did we accidentally come into this world, grow up by chance, or have our husbands, wives, and children by coincidence? Is our entire life random, or do we create the randomness? When we seek the answer to who we are and why we are here, we often identify with our body, the emotions processed by our mind, or our rational thoughts, forgetting that none of these are our true selves. Our true essence, our soul, is the universal self. 

First and foremost, we are intellect, then emotion, and only in the end, we are the body. When we want to identify with ourselves, we must identify with the intellect of our soul. We are who we are in the soul. To experience our body, we need emotion and thought, but to experience our intellect, we need awareness, self-consciousness, or faith. If we do not believe in ourselves, then we do not exist. Even though we have a body, we do not exist. The body—like our mind (body-mind)—is merely a name, a concept, which we assign to it. Both are created by perception and experience. Our body executes the program of our life functions (since life is necessary for our existence), while our soul follows the program given by the One and Only. If we accept this duality, we will embark on the path of consciousness and awakening that our Initiation Master has shown us. He did not teach us what and how to do with our bodies, or what comfort to give our bodies, but exactly the opposite: to leave behind the desires of our bodies and work on maturing our souls, returning to the One, and acquiring universal knowledge. When we behave individually (according to our superficial material, bodily self), we reprogram ourselves through a misinterpreted free will and no longer follow the program given by the One. 

If we have self-knowledge issues, it means we have lost the thread of our returning, and we no longer follow the program given by the One, but the one we have built. At this point, we no longer see the forest from the tree, the unimportant from the important, our universal self from our individual self. Our problems (such as fears, worries, and sufferings) arise because our superficial individual self dictates to our universal self, meaning our thoughts, emotions, and body dominate the intellect of our soul. Why do we identify with the properties given by our five senses, and why are hospitals mostly full of individualistic, materialistic people? Because the individual, materialistic, and ignorant person has not only forgotten the universal self of the soul, but their erroneous behaviour also sends incorrect messages to their body cells and DNA, which results in the loss of balance in the cells, that we call illness. 

We make ourselves sick, but we are also capable of achieving healing. A direct correlation can be shown between the emergence of physical diseases and the dominance of the individual self. Unbalanced, excessive, individualistic people are sick—if not in visible physical diseases, certainly in their soul. In religious terms, the godless person is sick. Physical illness is the lack of spiritual health. This leads to the understanding that what we call suffering is not the suffering of our body or mind, but the suffering of our soul. Our soul, more specifically our individual self, suffers because it has not found its true self, its origin, or its balance—because something is missing. Our suffering comes among others from our ignorance, individuality, indecisiveness, restlessness etc. 

Individuality means reasoning, rational thinking, and decision-making when I am the one who "knows" what is good and what is bad, even at the cost of sometimes going against myself. However, it would be wiser to accept things as they are, and not constantly oppose the outpouring of life. If we resist the processes of life, we are fighting either against our external world (e.g., constantly complaining, criticizing the societal system and people) or against our inner world, which causes us to suffer. But we don’t need to save the world of people because people are many and varied, and we are small and weak by ourselves. 

In our self-knowledge, we must adapt to the greater world, for example by learning about and experiencing the order of nature or by understanding other people. Let us allow our children to gain experiences of the world of nature and humans. We should not measure or shape their knowledge according to ours. This also means that, as parents, we pay attention to various useless and meaningless external influencing factors, such as those found on the internet or social media. Our parental task is to show them the possibilities and paths of knowledge, to support their desire for knowledge, skills, and awakening of the world. It is also our task to give space to our children's desires and not shape them in our own image. 

We must also teach them to serve others with their knowledge by getting to know themselves, and not to identify with worldviews, materialistic or non-materialistic religions, dogmas, etc. Regardless of all this, they should feel at home in life and love living. Their life should be a continuous process of learning and acquiring knowledge. What we can still do for our children is to preserve the purity, sensitivity, desire for knowledge, and "childlike innocence" of their universal selves during the process of becoming conscious. Let them cultivate their knowledge in a way that they do not acquire encyclopaedic, quantitative, analytical knowledge, but rather qualitative, synthesizing knowledge, because the quantitative knowledge always follows the qualitative knowledge. The world is not a "who knows what?" competition, but a "who understands what?".