Read the following articles for some insights into realizing what you are
The Toltec path of freedom is the same as the goal put forth in all the other Spiritual teachings. Most people would equate it to enlightenment. The path is as simple as anything could be. There is only 1 step, and you don’t even have to do anything! It is probably the most simple thing in the world to do. Unfortunately, it is also probably the hardest thing you will ever do.
Every spiritual teaching or path explains everything about where you are at when you start the path, why you are there, the pain you are in, what you will go through, the hurdles and blocks that will be put in your path, along with how to move past everything and realize your personal freedom/enlightenment. This begs the question, why isn’t everyone there? In perspective, there are probably just a miniscule fraction of 1% of people that are there or close. How can we keep missing it?
I mentioned that the path is probably the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. It is hard because you have a parasite that has made you believe that it is you. You have spent a lifetime giving all of your attention, awareness, and energy to this parasite…and then thanked it for keeping you in prison. Any time you started to withdraw some of your attention from this parasite, it would react powerfully by pushing all your emotional buttons. This is because if you stop feeding it everything you have, it will starve and die. It will do everything it can to not allow that to happen.
For those of you that have been on the spiritual path, you probably have already guessed that I’m talking about your mind or egoic mind. For those that are just finding their path, this may come as a shock. Most people still believe they are their mind. They believe all the thoughts and opinions and emotions that their mind feeds them as the one truth. The mind tricks them into fighting to defend all of their ideas and beliefs as if it was a life and death struggle. This is because for the ego/mind/parasite – it is life or death!
The first lesson to learn is that you are NOT your mind. You are NOT your thoughts. You are NOT your emotions. You are NOT your body. These are all elements of your creation in the world you are experiencing right now.
The real you is BEING. You can call this soul, consciousness, awareness, universal energy, whatever you want. It is the spark that creates all there is. You are part of the energy that is creating universes and everything in them each moment. This always leads to the question, if I am that powerful, why can’t I just choose to be enlightened and have it done? The answer is because you attempt to make it happen with your thoughts and emotions and actions. Those are all the elements of the ego/mind/parasite. You will not get past your mind by going deeper into your mind.
So the one and only step to realize your Freedom/Enlightenment is to stop thinking. Let your essence, your Being, experience each moment as it is. Simple!
That being said, each path will provide you with methods to take back awareness from the mind. Techniques to weather the storm that the parasite will send at you. Ways of perceiving the world that will cause the mind to stop, briefly at first, but enough to give you the crack you need to realize what you truly are.
You are Peace. You are joyful expression. You are one with All That Is. You are Being. You are awareness. You ARE.
When you first enter this world and begin experiencing your life, you are conditioned (domesticated) to believe what your family, culture, and society believe. You are force fed ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, righteous and evil, should and shouldn’t. This will generate what I call your book of law. This will filter every experience, thought, and perception for the rest of your life…unless you wake up. Your book of law will change throughout your life, in minor ways for the most part.
This conditioning and book of law bring with them your big judge, your victim, and your personal importance. These 3 aspects will keep you in a prison of pain. What I refer to as pain is what people refer to as negative emotions – fear, anger, anxiety, sadness, guilt/shame, jealousy, boredom, etc. Most people do not even realize these emotions are painful because the mind feeds on these emotions so to a certain level people will think they are pleasurable.
At this point, if you haven’t read the article above, “The Path of Freedom”, I recommend you do that now so you can get an idea of how your mind/ego/parasite keep you asleep and in your own personal prison and how it functions.
Your mind, in it’s insatiable need to be fed more negative emotions will use your book of law to keep you intensely focused on things that keep you generating pain. It does this through the stories you have on a nonstop loop in your head. You know the ones. Where you run all the different scenarios of people doing you wrong or you doing them wrong, the internal arguments where you tell people off that are breaking your rules as spelled out in your book of law, the constant detailing of how everything and everyone “should be” and how they aren’t.
When you start to pay attention to the thoughts going through your head, you are going to find they are just on repeat – same stories, different people/place/thing/event. This is why things in your life keep repeating.
These stories are one of the most powerful ways that your mind keeps you in prison so it can feed off of you. The only reason this process continues is because you believe the stories your mind tells you. You give all of your faith and energy to making your book of law and the stories upholding it as your gospel TRUTH. The secret to peace is to realize those stories are partial truths at best and full on lies at worst. The truth encompasses all that is. This means that the truth of any experience, event, person, interaction is all the possible perspectives and perceptions. You are choosing to hold 1 very minute aspect of the whole and then attempt to hold everyone else to that as if it was the whole. Your mind sees this as life or death and will pour everything into defending your truth.
This is a huge con. As long as you believe the stories based on your book of law, you can not perceive your world as it is. You are unable to accept life. Non acceptance of what is and giving your mind and it’s stories all your awareness is what keeps you in your own personal hell.
If you want to move along a path towards experiencing your world as the peaceful and joyful place it is, a good place to start is to stop believing the stories in your mind. Instead of putting all of your faith and attention into making them you…pull back and watch them. Watch how the stories follow your book of law. Notice how those stories make you feel. Be aware of what actions they push you towards and how they affect you and those around you. See how you judge everyone and everything against your book of law and what that does to you. Notice how you project yourself as a victim through the stories so that you can then punish the victimizers. Stop believing you are your stories. Stop believing your book of law.
Peace, Joy, and Freedom lie within you, under all the pain your mind creates through the stories that come from your book of law.
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