Salvation is a dirty word

 

 

What makes us think that things can get better for us? What star are we aiming it and is it too damn high? Well, that indeed might just be the point. 

Throughout history there have been various external forces trying to get us to join them. All with a promise. All with an incentive in joining. A bigger purpose. When we are in the dumps, we tend to be more vulnerable towards promises of salvation. Some of think we can be saved and others have simply given up. There is more than meets the eye. When we are so eager for salvation and attempt to seek it in external forces, we lose a piece of ourselves. What is so funny about peace, love and ultimately understanding of the self and all of its self imposed struggles? 

You may be thinking of religion, but there is more than that. It is more about the mechanism of salvation that is important to understand. Why do we think that we even need salvation in the first place? Do we not trust ourselves enough in the first place to get us through trying times? Don't get it wrong, it's important to have a solid connected web of people to help you and support you, but no one will come to save you if you are in a mindset that depends on someone else. You put yourself in a compromising position when you are seeking salvation. The person seeking an external force to be saved fails to look inward. They fail to sit with the pain and discomfort that has brought them into wanting salvation in the first place. It is a vicious paradigm and a false binary. The seeking for salvation dependency can only breed more dependency. 

            Salvation in any form is Salvation in every form.  

We are imperfect in every moment. Even that fact can be hard to deal with. What happens when you think you have received salvation? Do you seek more salvation? The salvation you received before will only leave you wanting more. A vicious cycle. You may even find yourself at a more confusing place than you thought you could ever be before you were seeking salvation. Then what? You may go back to those salvation seeking habits. Those little repeating behaviors that were brought about from your own unconscious conditioning. Your desire to escape. Your desire for more. 

            So you want salvation? Salvation from what? Salvation for what? 

It is the seeking for a means to an end that can lead us down a road of conflict and confusion. A road familiar to most unconscious people. Who even are you to think that you even need or CAN be saved? It's a funny question, but a good one. What is so bad about your life that you think you need to be saved? There are probably things that you are trying to avoid. Things that are uncomfortable and quite possibly more painful than you want to deal with. We humans are creatures of comfort and convenience. Most of our problems are self created. Problems derived from compulsive thinking. We are masters at turning pebbles into boulders and bridges into walls. You're alive and that's amazing. You're able to experience all this mystical mind work that has created so much suffering. In that suffering, is a light. Not a light of salvation, but a light of understanding and awareness. 

 Do we really seek salvation or just the idea of salvation and all the promises it brings?

Well if salvation does not exist, than we can certainly act as if it does. What this means is that we can live life as is we already have salvation. We can take that sense of salvation and turn it into a sense of gratitude. Every moment you are aware can be an act of salvation. A retreat and ascension from the constant compulsory thought that rages in the mind. When we get caught up in thinking traps then we may want salvation even more. Something to deliver us from this repeating imaginary evil. Something to escape the present moment. 

           Why seek salvation when you can just feel it out? Ride the wave of discomfort and don't push                 back. Otherwise it will come back ten fold. Whatever we resist tends to persist.

       The concept of salvation implies that we are in a state of lack. As if we need something to take      us out of this self projected state of lack. One could see this as a trick or a trap. It's almost as salvation is a type of marketing campaign. Trying to seduce us in to its allure. An allure of our own making. That's where it  gets you. And once it lures you in, it doesn't stop there. The promises of the First Salvation will  leave you wanting more of it with more desperation. That desperation then can turn into a type of fatalistic dependency. A cycle of desires and escapes from a state of lack and discomfort. 

Who is going to save you now?

Well, WHO is asking the question?

We can embrace. Not perfection. Not grandiose identity. But a realization that we can be present in every moment and not seek an escape or a remedy to the discomfort that we are feeling. We can live every little moment as a salvation that does not deliver us from evil, but aligns us with a conscious state of awareness. 

Radical realization and responsibility. 

DG