The Balance of Opposites

Freedom v Oppression

“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”. John Lennon.

John Lennon rehearses Give Peace A Chance by Roy Kerwood (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We are living in strange times indeed. So many people clutching at ‘normal’, holding on to their lives, their jobs, their beliefs and principles while all the time sensing, coming from deep within life itself, change on a level unimaginable. And so we have the first of life’s great anomalies. We live normal lives in abnormal times, we hang on to what we think we know when what we know is being revealed as false. We live lives of half truths and misperception, and take our misperception for truth. It is a dangerous weapon to carry.
And, for whatever reason, partly because the internet has jettisoned humanity to a new level of awareness and connection and knowledge, and partly because the evolutionary impulse itself is causing growth and expansion of life itself, the global community finds itself seeking new and greater freedom.

People want freedom. They want to live how they want. Freedom of choice, freedom to believe what they choose. Personally, I think its deeper than this external expression. I believe the human mind itself is yearning for transcendence, longing to remember it’s true divine nature as consciousness. This impulse IS the impulse for freedom from tyranny, but it’s freedom from the tyranny from the ego it is seeking. And it falsely seeks this by looking outside itself at the world. BUT…YOU CANNOT BE FREE ON THE OUTSIDE UNTIL YOU ARE FREE ON THE INSIDE.

So on one hand we have this deep desire within humanity itself to grow beyond the lies and and manipulation of the ego’s need for control, and on the other hand we have the ego itself, fearful and alert, seeking ever more cunning and devious ways to own, control and dominate you…FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!

And that is the scenario playing out on the stage of the world. And it is exactly that, a stage. The outer picture we see is a reflection of the inner experience. We take it for real, and it is real. But it is only as real as our inner experience. And we mistake it for the whole picture. The fundamental problem with humanity right now is a misguided belief that freedom can only be found on the outside. We suffer from complete misunderstanding and misidentification.

We are balancing opposites, within and without. The wise amongst us, spiritual masters, tantric teachers, and the true gurus, know this to be true. We balance our inner desire for freedom and the egos desire to control. The truth is we are the bowl that holds both polarities. The truth is we are the neither the desire for freedom nor the need to control, but the sky within which these two appear, and then also we are those desires. When we falsely identify with one desire or the other need, then we are prisoners, locked up by our own beliefs. This then gets played out on the stage of our lives and we take it to be real. Multiply this by many billions of energies doing the same thing and we have what we call REALITY, THE REAL WORLD, THE CURRENT GLOBAL SITUATION.
Don’t believe a word of it. Don’t even believe your thoughts about it. Fear is the curse of humanity. It’s only true purpose is to open the door to love.

We are chasing our own tail, trying to eat ourselves. When we wake up to see we are one body, one global body with 7 billion little cells, we will be utterly shocked that we could fight ourselves, harm ourselves, kill ourselves, oppress ourselves. When the bodies cells fight each other we call it cancer. When the global bodies cells fight each other we call it freedom and oppression. It’s blindness of a global order.

To be concluded……