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Mother Mary,
February 18, 2007
My beloved, when it comes
right down to it, the past and the future are nothing but illusions,
mirages created by the sense of separation from the allness of life
that I love to call the River of Life. My beloved, there are those
who believe that heaven is a place of eternal rest, where angels sit
around on pink clouds, playing harps. There are those who believe
heaven is the Buddhic Nirvana, which they – in contrast to the
Buddha’s true teachings – have come to see as a place
where nothing changes, where there is no growth, no individuality,
no differentiation.
Yet my beloved, what must die so that you – the Conscious
You – can be resurrected into eternal life, is not your
individuality, your sense of self. Nay, my beloved, what must die
is the separate sense of self, the self that is based on separation
from the River of Life. This is the self that is born out of your
refusal to take up the responsibility to become the Christ, to become
one with all life through oneness with the guru.
My beloved, there is no
more important relationship for people on Earth than their relationship
to a spiritual teacher, or as such a teacher is often called in the
East, a guru. Oh yes, my beloved, the word “guru” has
indeed received a bad name in the West, in large part due to the many
false and fake gurus who have come out of the East and have attempted
to take advantage of the spiritual awakening that has been going on
in the West now for several decades.
Yet I must tell you that there is a reality in the fact that you need
someone who is not trapped in the duality consciousness in order to
escape your own dualistic illusions. For as Jesus has so lovingly
explained in his ego
discourses, and as he recently explained in another essential
discourse, the main characteristic of the ego is that it blinds
you to reality. This is what the Buddha called the veil of Maya, the
veil of illusion, that makes you vulnerable to the forces of duality,
which the Buddha called the demons of Mara.
Discover the parallels between the teachings of Christ and Buddha
Yes, my beloved, there are indeed many parallels between the teachings
of the Buddha and the teachings of Christ. And that is why you will
see that this new Rosary of the Eternal NOW, for the first time ever,
blends the teachings of the Christ and the teachings of the Buddha.
This, my beloved, is an extremely powerful ritual, not only for you
personally, but also for the world at large.
For I must tell you that the main strategy used by the forces of duality
is indeed the strategy of divide and conquer. And how could it be
otherwise? For how could the forces of duality do anything but divide
others, as they are divided in themselves through their entrapment
in the consciousness of duality, the consciousness of anti-christ
and anti-buddha. For my beloved, as you should realize by now, the
true teachings of Christ are the teachings of inner oneness, oneness
with your own higher being through oneness with a teacher, or master
or guru outside yourself.
For did not Jesus himself outpicture that Path of Oneness with his
disciples? Did he not attempt to raise his disciples from the state
of consciousness in which they were trapped when he found them and
then take them into oneness with himself? And was is not so that few
of the disciples were able to enter into that oneness. Specifically,
Peter
was the one who outpictured the difficulty that many among humankind
have in understanding the true message of Christ. Namely, that you
not simply follow Christ and elevate Christ to an
idol that will do the work for you, but that you come into oneness
with Christ, the oneness that can be attained only by following the
inner path, the straight and narrow way, the Middle Way.
For you see, my beloved,
both the Christ and the Buddha, in their true inner teachings, taught
the inner path, the Path of Oneness. How can you be a true follower
of Christ unless you come into oneness with Christ, unless you let
that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, so that you can
do the works that Jesus did, and greater works. And how can you be
a true follower of the Buddha unless you come into oneness with the
Buddha?
For is it not so, my beloved, that the essence of the teachings of
the Buddha is that everything is the Buddha nature. And so, when you
see that everything is the Buddha nature, how can you fail to come
into oneness with the Buddha that has embodied the Buddha nature?
And likewise, did not Jesus talk about the Word and does not the Gospel
of John say that in the beginning was the Word and without him was
not made any thing made that was made. So when you see the essence
of the teachings of Christ, you see that everything is made out of
the Word, out of the universal Christ Mind. And thus, when you see
this, how can you fail to see the universal Christ in yourself and
thereby come into oneness with the universal Christ Mind and all who
have previously come into oneness with that Mind, namely Jesus, Gautama,
myself and all the true saints and sages of the ages, those who are
found in every religion.
For my beloved, did not Jesus clearly spell out for Christians that
unless their righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes
and Pharisees, they should in no wise enter the kingdom. And was not
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees an outer righteousness,
where they took pride in following the outer letter of the law, the
outer scripture, in minute detail, thereby thinking they could guarantee
their way into heaven. And did not Jesus say that the kingdom of heaven
comes not with observation, for the kingdom of God is within you.
So it is not clear, my beloved – is it not obvious for those
who have ears to hear and eyes to see – that Jesus called all
to come into oneness with him, which is why he said, “I am the
way the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me,”
meaning the universal Christ consciousness with which I am one in
the eternal now.
What keeps people in the eternal struggle?
So my beloved hearts, what is indeed the blindness that blinds people
to these evident truths, these truths that should be self-evident,
or would be self-evident if people were not blinded so that they cannot
see the obvious. Oh my beloved, so many people think that they are
religious or spiritual, but they are as blind as the people who thought
the Earth was flat, for they see not that which should be obvious
if they would only open their minds and hearts.
And yet, my beloved, what is it that prevents people from seeing the
reality and the truth of Christ and Buddha? Well, my beloved, it is
that they are not mindful, that they are not awake. And why are they
not awake? It is because they have allowed themselves, without realizing
what happened, to be pulled into the eternal human struggle. And this
is the struggle that is set up between two dualistic extremes. And
these extremes take many different forms, my beloved. But there are
always two extremes. And they pull you to go into one of the extremes,
thinking that if only you can cross some line, you will win the ultimate
victory. Yet I tell you the absolute truth that there is no victory
possible in the realm of duality.
There are always those who promise you that if you shun the one dualistic
extreme and come into the other dualistic extreme, you are guaranteed
to be saved. And this, my beloved, is the promise of every false religion
that has ever been seen on this planet. And unfortunately, the majority
of humankind are still believing in this false promise of a false
salvation, an outer salvation through belonging to this particular
outer religion or belief system, following its leaders or practices.
Oh my beloved, it is this eternal human struggle that causes all of
the suffering on Earth. And we have no other desire than to see you
awaken to the reality that this struggle is unreality, and that by
shunning that unreality – attaining the Christ discernment that
allows you to see through it and see the reality of God behind it
– you can overcome that struggle. You can pull yourself out.
You can raise yourself above the eternal human struggle.
For my beloved, the Buddha
truly said – as one of the four noble truths – that life
is suffering. But life is only suffering when you are trapped in the
consciousness of duality that binds you to this eternal struggle of
seeking to avoid the one dualistic extreme, that is portrayed as bad,
and coming into the other dualistic extreme, that is portrayed as
good. Yet even though some people are very sincere and strive for
an entire lifetime, perhaps even many lifetimes, to escape the bad
dualistic extreme and come into the good dualistic extreme, they never
quite make it.
And my beloved, why is this so? Well it is so, my beloved, because
the duality consciousness sets up a goal that is unreachable, that
is unattainable. You see, my beloved, no one has ever fully escaped
the dualistic extreme that many call evil and reached the dualistic
extreme that many call good. And why is this so? Because when you
are trapped in duality, you have entered a realm where you are being
pulled on by two opposing forces. And my beloved, the closer you get
to one dualistic extreme, the more you will be pulled back toward
the other extreme. And why is this so? Because as you move away from
the centeredness of the Middle Way of Christ and Buddha, you are the
one creating the force that pulls you back.
You see, my beloved, there are so many people who believe that when
they are pulled away from what they define as good, it is because
they are being pulled away by the forces of darkness, the forces of
evil. And my beloved, while this is true, I must tell you that the
reason why you are being pulled by the force of evil – the reason
why the force of evil, the prince of this world, has anything in you
on which it can pull – is that you are trapped in the realm
of duality.
Being humanly good prevents you from entering heaven
You see, my beloved, if you were not being pulled away from good,
what would happen was that you would go into a state in which you
thought you were perfectly good, and you would stay there indefinitely.
Yet my beloved, as Jesus said – when he said, that the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees would not get them to heaven –
was precisely that being humanly good is not sufficient to get you
to heaven. For being humanly good is still in the realm of duality.
So you see, my beloved, if it was indeed possible for you to escape
human evil and go into the extreme of human good, you would still
be trapped in duality—yet you would believe that you would be
saved. And therefore, you would not strive to go beyond that state.
And if you did not strive to go beyond, you would never attain salvation.
You will not be saved by becoming a good human being, for this is
still a sense of identity that is separated from the spiritual identity
in which you know you are an individualization of God's own Being.
So you see, my beloved,
the force that human beings call evil is indeed evil, but it is evil
in a dualistic sense. And as long as people are trapped in duality,
it actually has the function of preventing them from going into the
opposite extreme of human good, of relative good, and staying there
indefinitely.
Now my beloved, this is a subtle point, and I do not want you to misunderstand
or misinterpret what I say. I am not saying that evil is good. I am
not saying that evil is part of God’s plan. I am not saying
that God wants evil to remain on this planet. I am only saying that
as long as people insist on expressing their creative powers through
the mind of duality – as long as they insist on trying to preserve
the separate sense of self, the identity of the human ego –
then they will be subject to the force of evil.
For people do indeed create both the relative good and the relative
evil that blinds them to God's reality beyond duality. And therefore,
you can never fully attain goodness or peace on Earth. This is what
the Buddha knew, and that is why he said that life is suffering. For
he knew that as long as you are trapped behind this veil of illusion,
this veil of Maya, you cannot escape suffering. Jesus knew this as
well and expressed the same truth, only in slightly different words.
Escape the human rat race in the Eternal NOW
My beloved, it is time for the spiritual people of the world to wake
up and realize that beyond the outer teachings, given by the Christ
and the Buddha so long ago, there is a universal, timeless truth.
And that truth is that when you leave the realm of duality, you can
find eternal peace. But my beloved, you cannot find peace in the past.
You cannot find peace in the future. And you cannot find peace in
the present. But then, where is peace found, if it is not found in
past, present or future? What else is there?
Well, my beloved, there is the Eternal NOW. The Eternal NOW is not
the past. The Eternal NOW is not the future. This I trust should be
easy to see for those who have given the last two rosaries. Yet what
you need to realize is that the Eternal NOW is not the present either.
For the Eternal NOW is not what human beings – who are trapped
in duality – call the present. The Eternal NOW is outside of
the dualistic concept of time.
You see, my beloved, human beings are trapped on this treadmill, where
they feel that the more they strive for good, the more they are being
pulled toward evil. And thus, they begin to feel that if only they
strive harder, then they can perhaps overcome the resistance and attain
good or attain whatever else they desire on Earth, such as eternal
youth, eternal beauty, riches that cannot be lost, or whatever else
it might be. But as I have explained to you, the more you pull toward
one extreme, the more you will be pulled back toward the other. And
so people enter this treadmill, whereby they start running faster
and faster, thinking that if only they run fast enough, somehow they
will catch up.
Well, my beloved, if you
look at the world, you will see that millions of people are caught
in what many people call the rat race of always trying to catch up
but never getting there. And yet there are many people who have come
to the point of feeling that they have had enough of this rat race,
they have had enough of this treadmill of human suffering. And so
they turn to the spiritual path, to a spiritual teaching or a spiritual
teacher, and they think that if only they can find the Holy Grail,
the philosopher’s stone, the magic formula, they can escape
the rat race and find eternal rest, eternal peace.
You see, my beloved, this is the error of the age. People are caught
between a rock and a hard spot. The rock being the sense that if you
only run fast enough you will reach your goal. And the hard spot being
the opposite, namely the reasoning that there must be a place of eternal
rest where you can escape the rat race. Yet I tell you, there is no
place of eternal rest. The kingdom of God that Jesus talked about
is not a place of eternal rest. The state of Nirvana that Buddha talked
about is not a state of eternal rest.
You see, my beloved, the only thing that is eternal in this world
of form is the River of Life. But the River of Life is not standing
still. My beloved, I have not called it the ocean of life, for the
ocean might imply something that is still. No, my beloved, I have
called it the River of Life, for the River of Life is the process
of life, the process of co-creation that the Creator started when
he started
this world of form. And this is the process that will continue
to transcend itself and become more, until the entire void is filled
with Light and this world of form has fulfilled its purpose.
Constant self-transcendence is the only permanence
Ah my beloved, truly these concepts can be difficult to grasp, especially
for the linear Western mind that has been brought up to be the perfect
consumer, who is always striving to make more money so they can buy
more things. But yet I tell you that there are millions of people
on this planet who are ready to not only understand this truth but
to internalize it – to integrate it, to become one with it –
to the point where they can truly step off the rat race. But instead
of seeking eternal rest in some kind of stillstand, they now plunge
themselves into the River of Life, where they realize that eternal
rest is to be one with, to be in sync with, the constant self-transcendence
of the River of Life. And thereby, they do not simply withdraw from
the world to enter Nirvana but they will – as did the Christ
and the Buddha – become instruments for the awakening of others.
You see, my beloved, what creates the rat race, what creates the sense
that you are behind, that you can never catch up, is precisely that
the Conscious You has built a false sense of identity, an identity
based on separation. And therefore, it is this sense of separation
from life itself that gives you the feeling that you are behind. And
no matter how fast you run in the dualistic world – seeking
to escape one dualistic extreme and find the other – you will
never catch up. For the only way to catch up is to realize that the
problem is separation, separation from the River of Life—the
process that takes you from being a separate co-creator to being a
full Creator with God consciousness.
This, my beloved, is the Path of Oneness, that the Ascended Host have
taught since the beginning of time and space. All true teachers throughout
the ages have taught this path. But in past ages it has been impossible,
at least in recorded history, to describe this path in the open and
straightforward language that you use today. That is why many past
teachings have been veiled and in complicated language that made it
difficult to understand the teachings and made it easy to overlook
the inner core of the teachings. This was also done to shield the
teachings from the eyes of the profane, so they would not misuse them
and thereby gain even more control over others than they already have
taken through the means available to them in the realm of duality.
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