RELIGION or POLITICS - YOU have Nine Consciousnesses

Greetings at midweek, and how y'all doing??? Remember "YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR LIFE"  so if your life isn't going as you would like, then you'd better think about changing your thoughts. And now is your chance to research your spiritual thinking. Good to check it out as the best way to turn your life around and keep yourself strong in handling this, meant to be, tough life, we all live.

Now I am going to finish up the 7th Consciousness, from my last blog on the subject, and then on friday on to the umbelievable 8th and 9th Cosciousnesses.


GOING ON FROM LAST...That we have the drive to preserve oneself, which is the ego or Lesser self.

ULTIMATELY,  HOWEVER, THIS DRIVE OR DESIRE CREATES SUFFERING. WE CAN BE DEEPLY CONTROLLED BY THE FUNCTION OF THE SEVENTH CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NOTION OF SELF IT PRODUCES,  BELIEVING IT TO BE SUBSTANTIAL WHEN, IN REALITY, IT IS NOT. ATTACHMENT TO THIS SELF CAN BREED ARROGANCE AND EGOTISM AS WELL AS SELF-LOATHING AND INSECURITY. YET, IF WE ABANDON THIS SELF WE ARE APT TO FEAR THAT WE ARE NEGATING OUR EXISTENCE.  SO WE CLING TO THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT WHO WE ARE; AND WE SEEK TO EXPAND THESE STORIES, REINFORCING OUR OPINIONS AND BELIEFS, OUR LIKES AND DISLIKES, ETC., AS IF PROTECTING THE CORE OF OUR IDENTITY.
We thus lose sight of the TRUE SELF, which lies at a deeper level of cosciousness, and remain ignorant of our true potential.  OUR ATTACHMENT TO THE SELF OF THE SEVENTH CONSCIOUSNESS CONFINES US IN A SMALL CAGE WITHIN THE VASTNESS OF LIFE, AND OUR INHERENT WELLSPRING OF HUMANITY REMAINS UNTAPPED.

While it may seem the word SELF is being employed negatively, implying selfish or self-seeking behavior, this usage is what Buddhism regards as the "lesser self."  As discussed in previous chapters, there is also a "greater self",  the true self lying dormant in the depths of life. The whole of Buddhist philosophy centers on the idea of breaking out of the prison of the lesser self to reveal the infinitely expanded true self. The nine consciousnesses concept was developed to achieve this goal.

THUS, WHILE THE BENEFICIAL POTENTIAL OF THE SEVENTH CONSCIOUSNESS IS UNDENIABLE, ITS POTENTIAL FOR CREATING THE "CAGES" OF EGO MUST NOT BE OVERLOOKED.

NOW, THAT TAKES CARE OF THIS ASPECT OF OURSELVES, AND NOW ON TO THE EXCITING 8TH CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE LINK TO  FUTURE LIVES.  OH BOY!!
    CHEERS....   CJ