We create heaven and hell right here, right now, by the
thoughts we entertain and the stories our minds create and the love that's
exchanged, and the honesty of vision.
If one has fully
known that whatever d mind conceives is dream illusory and unreal...
heaven and
hell experiences are also unreal n part of the dream...there’s just life
happening in bliss and for bliss..
Organized, exoteric religion has ALWAYS been the number one
killer of people in the world and the greatest purveyor of hatred and
repression.
Religion preaches love and acceptance out of one side of its mouth
and aids and abets judgement and intolerance out of the other.
As a result of
organized religion's shameful history of abuses towards humankind, we have
entered what might be called a post-religious and individualistic spiritual
age.
Those who continued to beat the drum of exoteric religion might do well to
look inside, enter the silence they find there, and discover their own divine
nature.
This discovery almost never leads to judgement or intolerance.
Rather it
naturally produces compassion for those who continued to labour under the
illusion that the answer to their perceived emptiness lies outside
themselves--in religion or science or politics or relationships, etc.
Spiritual
awakening cannot be legislated or controlled by any organization, religious or
secular.
At their best, they can only point us inward and then shut up.
ps/smoh
NB
The mind is a mapmaker. Concepts, theories, and ideas are its
stock in trade. It maps reality in an attempt to predict and control, adapt and
survive. There is no problem with this process until we mistake the map for the
territory or ourselves for the endless stream of thoughts and stories running
through the mind.
