Our True Nature

Seek & Find Out for Yourself

Apr 30, 2024

It’s not popular from a worldly perspective to leave the world and seek our True nature unless it is hip deep into psychology and brain science.

These new scientific interests struggle when the world itself appears to be making a shift of great magnitude. Many have ideas and opinions and perspectives on the shifts that are coming. But there is no one who actually knows. We can perhaps say that there are those who are making plans, but even that is suspect to change.

Change of even the smallest magnitude requires adjustment. Check this out for yourself. See if you are able to go with the flow or do you get your protective gear on when you decide to make a change. Even when we decide to make a change, we are competing with the inevitable, pervasive unbidden change that comes and comes.

There is a strong recommendation to stop making plans. STOP making plans requires enormous strength and awareness of reality. Not the reality of the material realm of things, people and places. It requires at least a small sensibility of the reality of eternity.

When we consider eternity we tend to get to a place of humility and surrender. This consideration comes when we realize we are not in charge. We think we are, but in the light and perspective of eternity, we are NOT in charge. I hope this brings at least a smile or raises an interest on considering the reality of eternity.

Most humans believe that they will not die. It goes like this. When someone we know dies, we tend to enter a state of disbelief. Now, if that isn’t evidence that we believe we will live for eternity, I don’t know what it is? Shock! But again, shock rests on a belief so and so will never die. It is often shocking because we have a sense that we live into eternity. The body dies but there is that which never dies.

Despite the massive and speculative scientific data about life and death there is no proof - none whatsoever - that proves there is no eternal reality. A negative hypothesis is impossible to prove even if we believe that it is. Belief is not enough. Experience is a stronger approach.

What is IT that never dies? Let’s return to our sensibility about death. Most of us feel we are not going to die - the other guy might die - but not “ME!”

A tiny caveat might be those who choose to live an eat, drink and be merry life often live a life of wanting more and more…things, persons, adventures. Yet, if truly examined they, too would realize that every thing is impermanent except for that which is within them. The realization of impermanence is not about ME.

It is more accurate to say impermanence is not about “I AM.” It is about the body and karma - all the actions of body and mind. No one is left out of having a body and doing. Birth is followed by death of the body and doing.

Despite the sense of loss of the body and action, we sense we live into eternity. Just recall the disbelief when someone loses the body and action.