- Practice forgiveness
- There is no one out there, there is only one ego appearing as many
- Whenever you condemn, judge, criticize another, your salvation is off to a flying stop
- This world is a world of illusion
I have integrated these concepts deeply in Jonathan Parker's Enlightenment Series. It does not hurt to periodically remind ourselves what we have learned. I smiled when I saw truth in the books that I read.
In "Piercing Illusion" album, Dr. Parker has in-depth discussion of the above metaphysical concepts. I had hard time accepting them at first. I had probably listened more than 20 times on each of the tape 6,7 and 8 until I finally intellectually accepted them. With the understanding of how the universe works, I found myself greatly relieved many quilts and many negative thoughts about what had happened about my life and all others.
There is a master plan underlying each of our incarnation. We are not thrown into this physical existence without our consent. Believe it or not, we had agreed ( in different levels) to our basic life challenges, obstacles, lessons and everything else that had happened to us. The world is meant to be a stage or a playground that we take up many roles, meet many challenges in order to perfect our soul.
Let me comment on the practice of forgiveness. If we know that there is only one mind in entire universe. Everything is the manifestation of God. In order to experience and from the Big Bang scenario of the universe, God fragmented oneself to billions of billions of particles, the physical universe hence were born. We are actually unconsciously connected, we are from that one source, we are one and the same.
That stands the reason that when you hurt others you actually hurt yourself.
Another interesting and very enlightened discussion from Dr. Parker's work is about reincarnation and Karma. This concept you will also find in the "Disappearance of the universe". We often have problems about relationship, about work, money, children, health and all kinds of things. Our inclination is to blame fate, luck or others for making things difficult for us. However, from metaphysical points of view, all these challenges were meant to strengthen our character. All the seeming tragedies, bloodshed, catastrophe, natural disaster and all human conflicts were all meant for something else. They were the tools for us to learn and grow. After all, no one really dies. We merely change form and phase out from this dimension and emerge into different, higher dimension.
From this standpoint, you can see that the world and all the things in it is transitory, it does not last, and the most important thing to remember is that we last and we live beyond this space and time. Isn't that fascinating? Isn't that enough reason to feel joy? Nothing that we learn will be lost, anything seemed unbearable won't last. That meant to be tests and exams, that is all.
