Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 79
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The surest way to piss off a human is to invalidate their suffering.
Imagine telling someone that their rape is imaginary.
Imagine telling someone that their trauma is imaginary.
Imagine telling a parent that the death of their child is imaginary.
Imagine telling an African-American that slavery is imaginary.
Oh the horror, Leo!
But please, stop playing stupid.
As upsetting as that may be, it does not change the fact that those things are imaginary.
"But Leo! How dare you tell me that my suffering is just some game I play!"
Yeah, well... you play some very serious games. But just because a statement pisses you off does not make it untrue. Just because something hurts like a bitch does not make it true. And just because you're in a nightmare does not make it real. This isn't bad news, this is actually a doorway to salvation.
All suffering is imaginary. This is completely unacceptable to the finite self. Because the finite self's modus operandi is the avoidance of suffering. Which means it has to take suffering as real. To invalidate the self's suffering is to invalidate the self's material reality. The realness of suffering is baked into the very core of how self constructs reality. This is not merely a psychological thing, it's a metaphysical thing.
The point of spirituality is that at high enough levels of consciousness it allows you to see through the illusion of suffering and trauma. This is salvation. But don't go trying to tell a human that her suffering is imaginary. That will only make humans hate you. Because the finite self is incapable of loving Truth. If you could love Truth, you wouldn't suffer in the first place. The finite self would rather live in a self-constructed hell than surrender itself to Truth.
Notice this about yourself: you are a suffering and drama addict, and you refuse to give it up because it is completely intertwined with your definitions of reality. It is this way because suffering keeps you alive. If you didn't care about suffering, you would not survive as a finite human self for very long.
Suffering is the greatest illusion. All God has to do to fool someone into believing that something is real is make it extremely painful. Then 99.9999% of people will never question it.
Humans are too biased and immature to accept this. They want their suffering validated. They want their illusions validated. This is the human condition. Humans are puppets pulled by emotional strings and they cry, kick, and scream like children at the suggestion of cutting those strings.
Waking up requires growing up.
Isn't it amazing how the greatest news you could possibly be told — that all your suffering and trauma is imaginary — is received by most humans as something horrible and insulting?
Truth is way more serious than people are ready to handle, so usually its best to keep it to yourself. When someone comes crying to you about their misery, you give them comfort, not Truth. An important lesson in your spiritual journey will be learning to meet people where they're at, not where you're at. I've made this mistake many times.
If love is connection, what would be the highest love? What could be more deeply interconnected than ONE? How does reality achieve connection on a metaphysical level? By the elimination of all difference between things. As long as things are different, that difference disconnects them from each other by definition. Why do we say that a kangaroo is not a taco? Because a kangaroo is different than a taco. So, a kangaroo is disconnected from a taco to the degree that it is not identical to a taco. But as consciousness realizes that it imagines all difference, the differences which disconnect all things reconnect into a unity, like drops of water merging into a puddle. Eventually the difference between self and other reconnects as well. When this happens, you realize there is no difference between you and any other being. When this happens, you become self-less. Or, in other words, your sense of self extends to all things, becoming infinite.
And now you understand why selflessness is identical to love. The highest love is to regard and treat everything equally well, no worse or better than yourself. This results in infinite love, since you extend to every object that could possibly exist. Selfishness is to hold a bias towards one part of reality over all others, which results in finite love, since you do not extend to every object that exists — some objects you reject and abandon. So, without realizing it, by being selfish, by holding your survival as more important than anyone else's, you place a limit on your experience of love.
Your love is limited because you are unwilling to connect or become one with every object in existence. You are unwilling to do this because you regard some objects as better than others, thereby unwilling to connect with the "inferior" ones. But God cannot afford such bias because God has to be the creator of every object that exists. If God favored one object over another, if God hated some objects, God could not create them and they could not exist. But by the very fact that you hate them, you acknowledge their existence. So they do exist. Therefore they must have been created. But God must be the creator of everything. "But can't God create it and hate it?" No! The only way God can create a thing is by BEING it. And being is the highest love. What you don't realize yet is that the creation of a thing necessitates a metaphysical connection to it because if a thing could exist without God — if a thing could be its own source, if a thing could create itself — it would be God! Don't you get it? God is absolute tautology. If God didn't create it, it created itself, therefore it is God, therefore God created it because it created itself. That which is capable of bringing itself into existence without an external source, is God. And what is the external source of EVERYTHING? EVERYTHING is ONE, and ONE cannot be two, therefore, ONE cannot have an external source. This isn't a word game! The mechanism of Creation is tautological necessity. Which is simply to say that A = A.
EVERYTHING is God! EVERYTHING created itself!
Do you comprehend how fucking profound this is?
How the fuck do you think you exist?! By accident???? You exist as absolute tautology! You exist because you MUST exist! God is Self-Creation. There isn't an 'other' who could have created you because you imagine all difference between anything, including self and other. And you cannot not exist because something would have to exist that separates you from existence, and separates existence from non-existence! But the thing separating existence from non-existence is YOU! You cannot not exist, even if you wanted to. Which is the only reason you're here.
LOL
Another way to frame it is: God is that which is connected to all things. Because it IS all things. To be all things is to literally be love. It is the highest possible expression of love. And so, God is Love, God is Selfless.
Love and Selflessness are not merely psychological orientations towards things. Love and Selflessness are the metaphysical identity of all things. God's Love is so profound it happens at the level of ontology. God is Identity itself. Identity.... as in equality. When you realize there is no difference between anything, you realize God is Equality. Love is the realization that everything equals everything.
Those who are selfish would like to have God abandon those things which they hate without realizing that God is ontologically incapable of abandoning any of its creation, because God is creation itself and something had to create the thing you hate. God is literally incapable of abandoning any thing because it's identical to all things, and that the highest Love.
How can one abandon himself? What madness do you ask of God?
If you want to understand God, lay down your hatred for all things. Then you will see as God does.
One who dares to reconnect with every aspect of oneself that one has demonized and abandoned, is God.
When you see love in all things without qualification, you are God. And the extent to which you don't, you are not.
Ta-daaaa!
It's so fucking obvious. You are everything you hate. You're just too scared to accept it. But what would happen if you accepted it? What would happen if you stopped rejecting Truth?
Consider this: If you are God, if God is love, if God is reality, if reality is truth, if you are untruthful, then you reject reality, then you cut yourself off from love, then you cut yourself off from yourself.
But hey, all this is just some clever words on a page. Nothing practical ;)