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NOTE: This answer was given on
May 19, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference in Ireland.
Answer from Jesus:
An excellent question, which demonstrates the impossibility of giving
a spiritual teaching that cannot be misinterpreted by the dualistic
state of consciousness. And that is why, again and again, we stress
the middle way, we stress balance, we stress going beyond duality.
Truly, my beloved, the key to resolving this is to realize that the
path is a state of constant self-observation, where you are constantly
observing yourself and watching whether you are staying on the middle
way or whether you have gone into one of the dualistic extremes.
And certainly, this is not something that you can give a hard and fast
rule and say, "This is what you should always be looking for."
For one of the things you must understand as mature spiritual seekers
is that the path is subtle—and that the further you go along the
path, the more subtle it becomes.
For you see, my beloved, when you look at someone who is a mass murderer,
you can easily see that that person is not on the spiritual path and
is doing something clearly unspiritual. But as you go beyond that level
of the blatant outer abuse, it becomes more difficult to discern the
delicate difference between going into one of the dualistic extremes.
And so, this is where, as you mature, you realize that you need to go
beyond what I have called black-and-white
thinking and gray
thinking. You need to be constantly alert to whether you are being pulled
into one extreme or another.
And this requires constant alertness, constant self-observation. But
I must tell you that there can come a point, where you become non-attached
to protecting your ego, protecting whatever sense you have individually
that gives you a sense of being in control or feeling that you are on
the right track. You can come to a point, my beloved, where you are
willing to look at anything in your own psychology, and you do not resist
seeing the truth. Because you know, as we have said many times, that
the Conscious
You is more than the outer personality, than the dualistic self.
And so, once you see something as dualistic, you can let it go and you
will be freer than you were before. You see, my beloved, it is indeed
true that there is a stage on the spiritual path where you need to focus
first of all on yourself, discovering that beam in your own eye, removing
that so that you can attain some sense of inner peace and clarity. For
until you have truly helped yourself, how can you possibly help others?
Yet, once you have attained some sense of peace, then you face the delicate
question that you come to a point on the path where you cannot progress
further until you help other people or help the planet as a whole.
But, my beloved, even this can become a blind alley that can be used
by the ego. And we have indeed seen some of our more mature disciples
and students who have fallen into the trap of now focusing on saving
the world, or helping other people, or spreading the teachings, or working
in a certain spiritual organization, to the point where they have said,
"I no longer need to look at my own psychology. For surely, I have
gone beyond that need. I have realized what I need to realize on the
spiritual path."
And so, again, there is no one way to always do the right thing. There
is no outer rule that can be given. The way to do the right thing is
to realize that as long as you are in physical embodiment, you need
to reach for a higher understanding of yourself and the spiritual path,
you need to be willing to self-transcend.
So in a sense the short answer is: No matter what state of consciousness
you are in right now, always look for the next level. Always seek to
transcend. Observe yourself, and then follow the inner direction when
you suddenly encounter an outer situation where you get the inner prompting
that here is something you need to look at, here is something to let
go of.
This, my beloved, is what our two messengers are doing constantly. And
I can assure you that if you have an idolatrous sense that they are
beyond being tested, or that they are above needing to learn something
and overcome something in their own consciousness, then you have not
fully understood what they are about. For they are constantly willing
to observe themselves. And when they see something, they go after it
and they let go of it. And this is the same that you must adopt—that
willingness to always look for whatever comes up. Sometimes it may your
own consciousness, sometimes it may be something you have taken on from
the mass consciousness.
But as long as you are in physical embodiment, you need to self-transcend.
For it is only those who continue to self-transcend, who will eventually
reach that level of self-transcendence, where they permanently transcend
the material realm.
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