Believing “I create my own reality” was a fun adventure, but it ultimately ended in the realization that the “I” is not doing any of the creating. Furthermore, any Law of Attraction teaching that gets more complex than “the art of allowing” is just another aspect of Maya (illusion).
When you successfully create pieces of your reality, you think you’ve escaped the trap. You think the trap was your limitation. The truth is, the trap is thinking there’s something to escape from in the first place…
Here’s the catch. Teachers tell their students the personality isn’t creating; it’s the subconscious, the mind of God, the Void, that creates. Did anyone catch that? Read that again.
It’s important to be honest about what’s actually true versus what is just a belief. Beliefs are dangerous because we stake our lives on them when they aren’t even true.
No belief is true. You only believe something until something happens that proves you wrong. Then you adopt another belief. That’s not truth. Truth is unchanging and needs no explanation.
The key to enjoying life is to not get stuck in the experience. Any experience. Good or bad. The personality doesn’t create anything, but it’s certainly going to like and dislike what is.
We want to think the personality creates because that belief maintains the illusion of control, the illusion that life is about the personality. The illusion that life is for the personality.
Law of Attraction teachings train our personalities into the mindset that seeking comfort is the right thing to do, that it’s a better choice than not seeking comfort. These teachings train our personalities into the habit of pursuing desires that only get bigger, and if we aren’t good at manifesting, the desires get more desperate.
In desperation, that’s when we have the biggest opportunity to wake up. When we can’t manifest our desires, we’re more apt to question what’s really going on. And that’s the point. That’s why we can’t manifest. That’s why Maya is out there trying to sucker us into another weekend Law of Attraction training course for just 3 payments of $997. The point isn’t to get good at manifesting – the point is to realize we’re not manifesting anything. At that point, awakening is right around the corner…
The idea that the personality is in charge and can create anything it wants keeps us focused on wanting only desirable experiences. Bigger, better, faster, stronger. The misperception that the personality can create maintains the false belief that we can control everything, that we SHOULD control everything.
Investing in this false belief causes us to reject and resist the undesirable aspects of life, aka reality. Once reality is out of the picture, we start on a path to escape pain, old age, and death. Just like the so-called masters… or are they?
The desire to control everything and stay comfortable prevents awakening. To have only desirable experiences is contrary to life. Yet nobody ever eliminates the unwanted no matter how good they are at manifesting parking spaces and winning the lottery.
Everyone is subject to ups and downs, yet it’s the part of life we deny and reject and strive to escape. We’re insane. We’re absolutely insane. Pain and suffering isn’t just an integral part of the human experience – pain and suffering IS the human experience.