The virtual reality introduced in the Matrix films is generated by a computer, and the people live in this artificially
created reality.
If you spend some time and pay attention to
the reality of your everyday life, you will find a stunning discovery. Because
our everyday reality shows a great deal of resemblance to movie’s virtual
reality.
Our virtual reality may not be generated by a
computer, but by our mind, our constantly flowing thoughts and emotions. And so
we are living in the imprisonment of our thoughts and feelings’ matrix. Let’s
see what features this matrix has and how to get rid of them.
Step 01: The World of Permanent Change
We chase our desires and unfulfilled dreams.
We are attracted by money, power, prestige, a wholesome, happy life. All this
lies there hidden behind the powerful iron gate that is towering in front of
us. Spurred by our ambitions, we pursue various goals all through our lives. We
aspire for something all the time, we always want to achieve something. This
restless rush is instigated by our fear that we are still not what we want to
be. We are never satisfied, we always want something else, we would like to be
better, more beautiful, richer than we are at present.
That is how we pursue our goals until death,
when we realize how meaningless the whole thing has been. But why are these
goals meaningless, we begin to protest immediately. The protest is caused by
the vary nature of the forms and shapes, as in their world every form and shape
is subject to permanent change, birth and death. Whatever we attract to us, we
are going to lose it, as everybody departs from this world empty-handed, all
those who pursue their goals, live in the spell of past and future.
Step 02: The Spiritual Seeking
We, however, wish to find the security of
permanence in our life. We would like to find what is beyond the world of
constant change. In order to do so, we become spiritual seekers.
As a first step of spiritual seeking we start
to look for enlightenment, Self-recognition in the world of shapes and forms
(that is, outside ourselves) in the hope of thus reaching the state of
permanent happiness. We intend to find a dogma, a great Master, an elevating
spiritual experience that expands our Consciousness. If it is not found here on
Earth, we will be looking for it in the other world, in the heaven of a
religion.
We use the mind as a mean of spiritual
search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond
mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of
enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.
The mental images are born through the
comprehensive process of the mind. For comprehension, we also require
information, so we shall gather bits of information like a busy ant. From books
on religion and spirituality, lectures heard and conversations attended, we are
attempting to screen information, ideas, opinions and experience necessary for
them. The same takes place with spiritual experience. We assume that if we
gather a sufficient amount of experience, as a result we will reach a certain
point, we will increase their spirituality.
These mental images motivate us to make
efforts at implementing the mental images at the level of daily life, to make
these images the cornerstones of our life. Achieving spiritual objectives,
however, affords only momentary satisfaction for us, so after achieving one
specific goal, relentlessness returns, urging us to start working for new
objectives. The mind produces new mental images, and seeking starts all over
again.
Step 03: The Stop
We then go on seeking, until we eventually
become tired of the process, and finally recognize its true nature.We stop and
abandon spiritual seeking. We recognize that all the objectives we have so far
been looking for outside ourselves, are only found within ourselves.
We will stop when we recognize the activities of the mind and refuse to follow it any longer. We realize that with the help
of the mind we will not be able to surpass the mind. We will experience that
stopping is the inactive moment of the mind, the silence between thoughts. In
that silence, we will experience the Consciousness without forms, and recognize
that we are in fact the Presence without thoughts. We then leave behind the
spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual
experience.
Step 04: The Inner Journey
This is the beginning of an inner journey
which takes us out from the matrix, beyond the mind. Once we have started our
journey, we leave the world behind and abandon everything that has hampered us
in our progress. We give up unimportant things in order to be able to
concentrate our attention exclusively on the important ones. That is possible
by means of a major mental clean-up.
When
we begin doing that clean-up in earnest, we will soon face the vast
multitude of our thoughts, opinions, ideas and the emotions attached to all
these. After a period of time, we realize that we need to abandon all the
unimportant things and trivialities, since these things will be found false in
the light of our inner journey. Then we find ourselves all alone, and realize,
that we still have not finished. We are still to shed the shadow that we
believed to be ourself.
Step 05: The Awakening: Coming Home
The awaking is the awakening of the
Consciousness to its own existence through the form and shape that we formerly
identified with ourselves. After the great clean up nothing remains but the
empty space.
But if we examine that space closer, we find
that it is full of Consciousness, which is the inner peace, quiet and
tranquility. We then realize that we are at home. Whatever now happens in that
internal space, we must experience that. We must experience whatever life has
to offer, there and then in that specific moment. The next moment does not need
to bear the burden of the experience of the previous moment.
The question then arises: have we already got
rid of the matrix? The emptiness is perfect, but we still must take the last
step in order to be completely free.
Step 06: Comeback
That step will take us to the point where our
entire journey began. We return to the Matrix, to the world of daily life. We,
however, return in a state different from the one in which we departed, since
we have undergone considerable changes during our journey. The Mind, the Ego
and, together with it, selfishness vanished from ourselves. The emptiness,
pulsating with life, and the Consciousness, awakened to its own existence,
continue to stay with us.
In this way the world will be entirely different for us. We no longer
feel en urge to run away from it, and we do not submerge in the swamp of identifying
with the world. We are now free from all that, and the world is now a new
adventure for us. We abandon ourselves into the streams of Life, and we merge
with the Universe. In the meanwhile, we help others in awakening and we share
the joy of existence and sympathy with everyone we encounter during our
spiritual journey.
~ From the book: Frank M. Wanderer: The Revolution
of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind
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