No Other Way

The only way to true, eternal life is by way of truth.
There is no other way.

The mind blocks and distorts the pure, present, direct life experience by essentially editing your life by converting what you receive through your senses into thoughts, words, feelings and emotions - mind perceptions.  The mind is more open to life (out of the way) when you experience new, pleasurable and exciting things, but then it closes you more to life more permanently if you do not know the truth, because it attaches that newness, pleasure and excitement to the past and future, and you want more than what is present.  The many faces of the mind fool people into thinking there is something better, something more - but abundant life is here now.  Everything people are motivated to do is to get fulfillment, to fill the emptiness, but the things the mind does just make it impossible to be completely fulfilled.  These faces of the mind make themselves easily recognized when you observe intellectual pursuit of unnecessary knowledge and information, religious belief, chasing wealth and power, ritual, pleasure seeking, other distractions and everything else the mind leads people in circles with.

To surpass the biggest illusion is to realize that you are not your mind.  Then, you must realize what that means.  It means that there is no "you" that has control over life.  The essence of what you are is eternal, for pure awareness/consciousness is always present.  It always has been and always will be, because the universe does not waste anything, including consciousness, it just changes form.  When a body can no longer function and harbor consciousness, it dissolves and manifests again, "moves" to the next body, the next world, based on the level of awareness attained in the last body.  This is evolution, and we have been through the entire evolutionary process here on earth to get to where we are now.  Could it be any other way?

Just as you (consciousness) receive life, you receive what the mind creates.  "Your mind" is bio-electric and chemical activity in your brain, neurons firing and communicating, manifesting perceptions of the environment.  We receive input directly from life and sensory systems in our bodies undergo complex transduction mechanisms to sense life, to see, hear, feel, smell and taste the present, to be conscious and aware.  These mechanisms move in balance, and a signal is sent to the brain almost instantaneously, which activates balanced on/off firing of neurons which start chain reactions of neuron firing and chemical release.  Familiar pathways of firing form as the neuronal network is molded by experience, and the mind perceptions form, interpreting life and forming memories.  As the mind perceptions get stronger, the direct experience of life gets weaker, and experience is filtered through the mind.

Realize how intense it is to be in your body right now. There are countless processes happening in your body at any given time. The heart beats, blood is pumped, cells are reproduced, hormones are distributed, life is transduced into sensory signals which fire neuronal cascades into thoughts, emotions, feelings, mind perceptions... You are not in control of any of it, it just happens and balances on its own.  There is no escaping this temporary body the consciousness (you) is focused in, no escaping the balancing force, no escaping the order of the universe.

Everything in your body just happens on it's own, on autopilot, including the brain activity and mind, just as everything outside of your skin happens on it's own.  Everything physical is held together in balance, moving toward balance.  The universe would fall apart if it was not constantly balancing itself.  Can you think of one process or thing that does not balance out eventually and is not held together in balance?  It is not any different for your body and physical mechanisms transducing sensory experience.  You are the receiver of the sensory input and resulting perception, the receiver of life, so everything that happens to you is life creating balance.  All pleasure will be balanced by an equal amount of pain, so why seek it?  There is no point in chasing the pleasures of this world.

The previous paragraphs are just a taste of what you will find in The Present, and a detailed expression of them is not the purpose of this post.  The Present explains the ultimate truth in the most clear, complete and accurate way in the history of mankind.  Anyone who disagrees should submit an entry to the Truth Contest.  The purpose of this post is to explain that there is no other way to true life except to use the truth to overcome the mind.  The first step is to read the top entry in its entirety, and then read the last section several times.  Then, to live in the truth, you must take the next step and give back to the truth by spreading it or helping others who have dedicated their lives to spreading truth by financially and physically supporting them.  If you help and financially support those who actively spread the truth, they will be able to do it full time, which will significantly help you (the giver) and give the human race a chance at survival.  Because this universe moves in balance, you have to give to receive.  Giving = Receiving is not just a moral code; it is an eternal, unchanging law of the universe we live in.

If you do not understand the truth and what it means, then keep seeking it while spreading what you do understand about it until you know it completely.  What could possibly be more important than learning the truth about your own life and death?

If you think you already know, you don't, because the truth is the opposite of what you think.  I am not trying to be a jerk or put you down or anything else your mind thinks - I am just being honest and trying to help.  Everything on this blog is sharing exactly what I would want shared with me.  Whether it is received by others or not, I am talking with myself and realizing what I understand.  Even if you are a guru or religious leader or practitioner, even if you have studied under the most renowned spiritual leaders, even if you have been meditating everyday for 50 years, even if you have a PhD and a fortress of intellect, keep seeking truth.  Many people think that they already know the truth, but it is a trick of the mind to get them to stop seeking in exchange for comfort in belief and mind certainty.  Many people think they do not need to know the truth about life and death, about the big picture, and think they can get in the present through a guru, or through meditation and ritual.  This is just a trick of the mind to get people to skip the intellectual, rational truth.  There is no "act of surrender" - what you are is already surrendered, you just have to get the mind out of the way, and since you have a rational mind, you need the rational truth to overcome it.  The mysteries of life and the mind itself are hidden until YOU put on the mind of truth (learn the truth in words) and use it to overcome the mind of man and the instinctual mind.  No one else can do it for you.

The Sufis have a saying that "doubt is the beginning of all wisdom." Without doubt, there is no searching. Without searching, there is no discovery. Without discovery, there is perpetual blindness. Do not get too comfortable and certain in your beliefs and perceptions, no matter how popular and reassuring they are.

Reason is what we have evolved, and we must use it to evolve further.  To overcome the mind, you must seek and learn the intellectual/word truth, and then give back to the truth by helping to spread the truth or by supporting those who actively spread it, even if no mind understands what you are doing.  The time to just study and try to get into life is over. We must take the next step and become modern prophets and spread the truth that is being revealed.  There is NO OTHER WAY.  No other way to unite the human race, no other way to turn this world right side up, no other way for you to consciously live in perpetual perfection.