Re: Thank You to V for Shaving off a Layer of my BS

I loved the Four Agreements when I read it. But It doesn't seem like immunity when people get angry because they can no longer control me, so they spread malicious gossip around and enlist the community to join in their efforts to control me, threaten to have me put in jail for asking too many questions that could set the record straight, and succeed in having me removed from the invitation list of many activities that I used to enjoy.

Somebody has to leave when anybody stands up for truth. And it is the liars who always get to stay. That's why they crucified Jesus. He stood for truth. I guess in the ultimate sense, making it to the Elysian fields is immunity. But Jesus sure did dread being nailed to that cross to get there. And he suffered because he didn't care what anybody thought about what he was doing. He did what he knew was right anyway and sacrificed his life. How important was that? Would the story have hung around for two thousand years if he had just said, "I'm outa here and all of you lying thieves are on your own to manifest your own miserable destinies!" then dematerialized, and gone to heaven without suffering?

I once dreamed about being in a sterile prison where people had no faces. I was about to be pricked by one of those little buddhist pitch forks. I knew it was going to be incredibly painful and could hear the sound of the pinging before it happened. It echoed forever. The pain of that tiny little prick was promising to be excruciating so that is when I woke up.

I would say that it depends on how much you do not care. If you don't care enough to speak up, and you just hide and watch and keep your mouth shut, you might come through it unscathed. But if you care enough to speak up on behalf of a better way, you will be crucified by those who are benefitting from exploitation. I say let there be war.

Suffering seems to be the path, the way, the inevitable for most. Ram Dass once told a story about a Guru who said, "Why do you want to relieve other people's suffering? That is how they come to know God." It makes me want to ask even more questions and see how uncomfortable I can make people get.

That saying of Don Miguel is a good example of how the spiritual adages trigger me. They simply don't seem to be true to my experiences of life, or Jesus's. And that is incredibly frustrating, especially when all of my friends are buying into them and they think that I am a spiritually defective victim-conscious idiot because that stuff doesn't work for me, or Jesus. Tweet