Hi everyone, just to let you all know that I have come to believe in God Yahweh and His Son Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. It’s a bit of a story as to how I came to it. I will just urge you all to take good look at the Bible for instance.
The Bible is the best written book there is and that is one of my reasons for accepting God Yahweh and His Son Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. Compare the Bible to other books.
Thanks
Peace Ervin,
I'm glad that you're out from your schizophrenic situation and you're experiencing your life in much better situation now.
When I'm reading on how you manage to get out of such situation I can say that it was the best method, you ask to the infinite creator and you then receive. Because verily you do have direct connection to your creator.
Tolle's explanation is the technical method on how you can widen your highway to your own infinite creator, acceptance and stillness. By stillness here he meant the stillness of your mind, more specifically stillness of your own egoistical mind. By silencing your own thought you will clear the highway from unnecessary traffic and you will be able to download (and upload) more.
But now I'm surprised how you then fell again to the 'trap' put forth by your own egoistical mind.
You again put something on the pedestal, in your latest example, it's Bible and Jesus.
Putting something on the pedestal is driven by pride, driven by the need to be superior, to be the best, to be among the 'righteous', to be among those 'who are saved', 'those who walked the straight path', 'those who are chosen' and many other label that people came up with to separate themselves with the inferior, with other than their own selves.
I call it as a 'trap' because when you put something on the pedestal and thus superior / best, it will drive the need to inferiorize other in order to justify it's superiority.
What;s being put on the pedestal can be many things, ranging from Football team, Nationality, Religion, Books, Dead / Past Figures, Food, Mobile Phone Brand, Car Brand, Color and millions of other things.
It is however understandable, as pride produce a (false) sense of security, strength and superiority. It tastes 'good' and '(temporarily) satisfying' and can be quite addictive. It's those 'good' feelings that anyone get when you won a race, won an award, receive promotion, watching your favorite football team won, watching your nationality being praised admired and adored, receiving compliment about anything that you've identified yourself with, your looks, your religion, your holy books, your tradition etc...
But the thing is, you will never feel enough, you will just want more and more, just like crack and drugs, it has certain addictive attributes to it.
An attachment to certain things, especially pride, can be a root cause of your sufferings.
Acceptance of everything 'as it is' it is actually a mean to liberation, purification and unification (with our "Heavenly Father")
And if you're diligent, you can also find the above message buried somewhere within the sentences of a bundle called Bible.
The act of putting things to a pedestal is of course quite common, as can be seen by even the replies on this thread. They're actually mirroring your action, the only difference is they put different things than you on their own pedestal. Thus to justify that they need to inferiorize the things which you've put on your pedestal.
Salam