Thursday, August 25, 2011
Nothingness Is Not The Ground Of Being
When I define the “ground of Being”
I see the material/supermaterial Spirit-Will as this ground, this Essence. But this is not
the ground of Being claimed by most religious mystics over the
centuries. They saw, and see, the experience of the ground of Being
as the end of the path, they describe it as like a time before the
beginning, they see “nothingness,” with no desire to do anything in
the ground of Being. This leaves the question why and how did
something come from nothing?
The great mystical error, which is also
stunningly arrogant, is confounding the empty yet still physical and blissful
Soul-State with the ground of Being. Indeed after much discipline
and meditation designed to block or stop all material desires of the
flesh, one can attain the empty blissful Soul-State. But this is not
the ground of Being, this is not God.
The Soul-State of the Revealed
Religions can tell us what it may be like when we finally attain the
fulfillment of the evolution of the material-supermaterial world, which is not
the same as the abandonment of the material-supermaterial
world.
It is through the Spirit-Will, the
Essence, not the Soul, that one can see the purpose of Existence as
the endless evolution of life to Godhood, activated by the
Spirit-Will.
Again, this means that something does
not come from nothing. Godhood is not nothing, and the Soul-State of
attaining nothingness does not define the ground of Being or Godhood.
The Soul-State and the Spirit-Will are
goals of the Twofold Path. The Soul-State is involutionary, the
Spirit-Will is evolutionary. But the Involutionary Inward Path to
the Soul is no longer the central and only goal of religion, it is
subsumed in the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.
Think of this anti-life quote : "I made a pillow of my mother's bones and remained in an undistracted state of tranquility."(Milarepa). The arrived mystic with no desire to do
anything, and no impetus whatever, can be released from this Great Spiritual Blockade. Life needs to be allowed to evolve to Godhood in
the cosmos.
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