 137. Religions (Cults) |
moral disposition of honor, manly trust, positive compassion, humor, love, and service extended to all is casually bypassed by most of those who pervade the world with ultimate beliefs and salvation techniques.
Those who cling to one or another religious or spiritual way must realize that the foundation of all such ways is the disposition of sacrifice. Every way is, above all, a system of self-sacrifice - not of self-preservation and of immunity to life through internal or subjective fascinations. Religious and spiritual activity is, above all, moral activity. It must be expressed in a new, free, sober, and truly compassionate disposition. Such a disposition freely anoints the world with help and intelligent consideration. It finds great pleasure in the intelligent and truly human companionship of others, and welcomes wise and thoughtful confrontation. And in the face of the persistent dullness of the cults such a disposition often becomes fierce and aloud: The whole Earth, the cosmos, and every separate being is a great Sacrifice! Therefore, let us consent to fulfill the Law! Let us give ourselves up, so that each temple - each bodily and mental person - may become a temporary and perishable altar of self-giving into the Mystery that pervades us!
-Franklin Jones
Any group of individuals, from a few to the major world religions, that teach G.O.D. is outside of ones own being and therefore creates and uses rituals, ceremonies, worship and ultimately the use of fear and threats. Worship, adoration, ceremonies and rituals in truth only reinforce the “illusion of separation” of mankind from that which is called God by humans.
No true spiritual teacher ever taught that which is referred to as God is outside of ones own being.
Jesus said “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21).
Buddha said “Be a light unto yourself”.
Mohammed destroyed statues and pictures so that those who truly seek God will not look “outside” for it…but find it in ones own being as he was taught by the ancient mystics and discovered for himself in the cave.
Lao Tzu taught the “way” or “absolute way”, i.e. the practice of stillness to “return” to ones true and inherent divine natural state of mind (universal mindedness, intuition) and being as the controlling influence of the physical animal, body and ego dissolve. (The ancient understanding and the true meaning of the word “possession”.)
All religions are man-made. All religions (cults) only reinforce the sense of individuality and the illusionary state (original sin) of being a separate and isolate being the self created personality of the physical body-brain (with the field of the mind) the “ego-I” (or narcissus, from the Greek, the “antichrist” state of being from the ancient mystics and “maya” from Hinduism).
