To Decide Is To Kill God
Taken from the latin dei=Deity and cide=to kill, the word "decide" states clearly that to practice decision is to kill God. Every day, in fact, every moment we are making the decision to kill God.
How can this be? How can our decision to order a mocha latte, for example, have anything to do with murdering God? How could anyone kill the Eternal One?
We don't literally kill God, which is impossible. What we do is create another god and worship it instead. The new god is us. We make two of what is naturally one. We either make a decision to kill our own god, our idol, which simply brings us back to Truth, or we kill (omit from our awareness) the true God and create a world, a god or gods, a personality etc. of our own.
When we make a decision on our own we say to ourselves that we have the power to separate what cannot be separated. We make a colossal lie and believe it. Why do this? To be our separate ego self.
Everything we think we are is a lie.
To quote Descartes, "I think, therefore, I am." This is the quintessential idea of the ego mind, the separated one. It presupposes that I exist separately and that my thinking proves it. It is the banner of victory the ego waves in God's face. "I think, therefore, I am, and you can't do anything about it." Who is this "I" that thinks? It is none other than the psycho/spiritual/physical manifestation of our "self", our brain in a body in a world, that we embrace as our reality, no questions asked.
Who is writing this post? I am; with fingers that type and a brain that thinks. But let's look deeper.
If you extend the quote to,"I think, therefore, I think I am," some opening is introduced; perhaps I am just a thought. The idea of who or what I am is secondary to the belief that I am a thinking something, a thought that thinks. Still, even if a disembodied idea I am still separate. Who is pondering the question? Me. How am I pondering the question? With symbols that serve to further fortify my extant agreement of who I am. It is an inescapable trap. In a sense I am always referencing myself as I try to figure out who I am. The decision to be separate is secure. It's a fools dance in the palace of smoke and mirrors.
In any thought a decision has already been made. It is the purpose of the thought wherein lies all the power we have.
Is the purpose to be right about who I am and what the world is, whatever that happens to be today? Or is the purpose to let go of my need to define myself and learn of who I must be, who we must be. I do have reality, but only in Truth.
If Truth is...then it cannot be meaningfully decided against except by way of illusions. We can deny the truth, but we can not alter it. The truth is decidedly not an illusion. To accept the Truth is to "kill" the ego god. Who is the ego god? Any god we believe in. God does not need us to believe. The Truth doesn't change because we deny it or accept it.
The only sacrifice, which is not a sacrifice at all, is all the drama we chose over the peace of God.
The only sacrifice, which is not a sacrifice at all, is all the drama we chose over the peace of God.
As I have said in earlier posts...we are not important. However, our decision to accept Truth and to let illusions go bye-bye is the most important action we can undertake.
The Truth that sets us free is the real Truth. What it sets us free of is our ideas of a separate reality, of not being free, of being small and in need. It allows us to remember who we are, who we were and always will be; in Truth...not in illusion, which never was. The veil disappears and we see our True Self.
It is an amazing and terrifying thought to consider...I do not exist; this person, these friends, this world, all that I identify with, all that i believe. It is incomprehensible. But let's not let that weakness of the ego mind deter us from re-discovering Truth.
The embrace of Truth is perfectly secure, wholly loving, and entirely ours, always.
Happy Independence Day
How can this be? How can our decision to order a mocha latte, for example, have anything to do with murdering God? How could anyone kill the Eternal One?
We don't literally kill God, which is impossible. What we do is create another god and worship it instead. The new god is us. We make two of what is naturally one. We either make a decision to kill our own god, our idol, which simply brings us back to Truth, or we kill (omit from our awareness) the true God and create a world, a god or gods, a personality etc. of our own.
When we make a decision on our own we say to ourselves that we have the power to separate what cannot be separated. We make a colossal lie and believe it. Why do this? To be our separate ego self.
Everything we think we are is a lie.
To quote Descartes, "I think, therefore, I am." This is the quintessential idea of the ego mind, the separated one. It presupposes that I exist separately and that my thinking proves it. It is the banner of victory the ego waves in God's face. "I think, therefore, I am, and you can't do anything about it." Who is this "I" that thinks? It is none other than the psycho/spiritual/physical manifestation of our "self", our brain in a body in a world, that we embrace as our reality, no questions asked.
Who is writing this post? I am; with fingers that type and a brain that thinks. But let's look deeper.
If you extend the quote to,"I think, therefore, I think I am," some opening is introduced; perhaps I am just a thought. The idea of who or what I am is secondary to the belief that I am a thinking something, a thought that thinks. Still, even if a disembodied idea I am still separate. Who is pondering the question? Me. How am I pondering the question? With symbols that serve to further fortify my extant agreement of who I am. It is an inescapable trap. In a sense I am always referencing myself as I try to figure out who I am. The decision to be separate is secure. It's a fools dance in the palace of smoke and mirrors.
In any thought a decision has already been made. It is the purpose of the thought wherein lies all the power we have.
Is the purpose to be right about who I am and what the world is, whatever that happens to be today? Or is the purpose to let go of my need to define myself and learn of who I must be, who we must be. I do have reality, but only in Truth.
If Truth is...then it cannot be meaningfully decided against except by way of illusions. We can deny the truth, but we can not alter it. The truth is decidedly not an illusion. To accept the Truth is to "kill" the ego god. Who is the ego god? Any god we believe in. God does not need us to believe. The Truth doesn't change because we deny it or accept it.
The only sacrifice, which is not a sacrifice at all, is all the drama we chose over the peace of God.
The only sacrifice, which is not a sacrifice at all, is all the drama we chose over the peace of God.
As I have said in earlier posts...we are not important. However, our decision to accept Truth and to let illusions go bye-bye is the most important action we can undertake.
The Truth that sets us free is the real Truth. What it sets us free of is our ideas of a separate reality, of not being free, of being small and in need. It allows us to remember who we are, who we were and always will be; in Truth...not in illusion, which never was. The veil disappears and we see our True Self.
It is an amazing and terrifying thought to consider...I do not exist; this person, these friends, this world, all that I identify with, all that i believe. It is incomprehensible. But let's not let that weakness of the ego mind deter us from re-discovering Truth.
The embrace of Truth is perfectly secure, wholly loving, and entirely ours, always.
Happy Independence Day
Posted by Kristopher at 7/5/2009 9:16 AM 
Categories: Heaven,Practice,Peace,God,Love
Tags: Peace Truth reality Illusions Spiritual Practice Descartes Ego God's Face Lies I think therefore I am dancing
Categories: Heaven,Practice,Peace,God,Love
Tags: Peace Truth reality Illusions Spiritual Practice Descartes Ego God's Face Lies I think therefore I am dancing
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