Kisah akan Ke-terpisah-an dan Ke-tersambung-an

Hidup adalah kisah. Setiap kita merangkai kisah dan legenda pribadi kita masing-masing bahkan sejak kita masih dalam kandungan sang ibu hingga kita meniupkan nafas kita yang terakhir. Kisah pribadi kita itulah yang bersama kisah-kisah pribadi lainnya terajut menjadi satu rangkaian besar kisah kehidupan umat manusia di muka bumi.

Tema abadi dari kisah kehidupan manusia di muka bumi tersebut adalah tentang “baik lawan jahat” atau kebaikan melawan kejahatan. Kita secara umum mendefinisikan “baik” sebagai suatu bentuk perilaku yang mementingkan dan membantu orang lain. Sedangkan “jahat”, lawan atau kebalikan dari “baik” kemudian didefinisikan sebagai suatu bentuk perilaku yang mementingkan diri sendiri dengan mengorbankan orang lain.

Definisi yang saling beralawanan ini sebenarnya bersumber pada satu prinsip yang sama, yaitu keterpisahan. Jauh sebelum semesta melahirkan manusia sebagai salah satu bentuk kehidupan, seluruh bentuk kehidupan dalam kesadarannya mengetahui bahwa mereka satu adanya, dan bahwa tiap mereka merupakan bagian tak terpisahkan yang saling tersambung dalam satu jejaring eksistensi maha besar. Ini disebut kesadaran akan keutuhan atau kesatuan eksistensi.

Pada awalnya manusia secara sadar mengetahui ketersambungan eksistensinya dengan sesama manusia dan alam sekitarnya, seperti halnya yang terjadi dengan sebagian besar spesies hewan sekarang ini. Contoh paling jelas yang bisa kita lihat dewasa ini adalah ketika tsunami menghancurkan wilayah Aceh di Indonesia pada desember 2004. Begitu tim penyelamat masuk ke wilayah bencana puluhan ribu mayat manusia ditemukan, namun tidak ada ditemukan mayat binatang yang menjadi korban.

Semua spesies binatang secara kolektif telah mendapatkan intuisi tentang bahaya besar yang akan menerjang, dan secara serentak menyelamatkan diri ke daerah yang lebih tinggi.
Media berita melaporkan bahwa kelompok gajah yang sehari-harinya jinak secara spontan mencabut lepas rantai dan tiang pancang yang mengikat mereka ke tanah dan berlarian menuju puncak bukit seraya mengeluarkan suara trompet sebagai pertanda bagi hewan lain untuk mengikuti mereka. Sejenak setelah tsunami menghantam dan perlahan mereda, para gajah itu kembali pulang dan memanfaatkan postur mereka yang tinggi dan kekuatannya yang besar untuk menyelamatkan anak-anak dari lumpur dan banjir untuk kemudian membawa mereka ke tanah yang lebih tinggi.

Seperti itulah koneksi yang eksis diantara para makhluk hidup pada awalnya, saling ter-sambung-kan secara instingtif dalam satu jejaring kesadaran kolektif. Pada satu titik tertentu dalam sejarah semesta, kita secara kolektif memutuskan untuk menjelajahi dan menyelidiki akan ke-terpisah-an. Kita menginginkan, bukan hanya tubuh fisikal yang terpisah, namun juga kita secara sadar merasa terpisah dan tak terhubungkan dengan manusia lain.

Kita memang sudah mengalami keterpisahan, kita mempunyai pribadi dengan jiwa, ruh dan jasad fisik yang terpisah. Namun kita memutuskan untuk menjelajahi pengalaman akan keterpisahan sampai ke ujung perjalanan dan terlahir dengan tidak mempunyai kesadaran apapun mengenai ketersambungan kita dengan sesama manusia. Dengan kata lain, kita ingin, paling tidak satu kali, menjadi entitas yang independen dan benar-benar terpisah dari seluruh aspek semesta lainnya dalam petualangan kita dengan jasad fisikal ini.

Walaupun sejatinya kita tetap ter-sambung-kan dengan keseluruhan eksistensi, seperti halnya seluruh semesta adanya, namun kita tidak akan secara sadar menyadari atau mengetahui adanya ketersambungan tersebut. Nah, Itu baru sesuatu yang menurut kita, bisa disebut... PENGALAMAN !

Alasan dan fungsi paling mendasar akan adanya individualisasi adalah agar Sang-Pencipta dapat menjelajahi dan mendapatkan pengalaman akan keseluruhan aspek Sang-Pencipta sendiri dari berbagai sudut pandang berbeda yang tak terbatas jumlahnya.

Apakah ada yang lebih realistik, independen dan kreatif, kita bertanya kepada diri kita sendiri, dari sudut pandang seorang individu yang benar-benar independen dan kreatif, dengan seluruh perasaan, kecerdasan dan keinginan bebasnya sendiri?

Sejak saat itu, saat yang telah lama terlupakan dalam pusaran waktu, manusia terlahir ke dunia ini dimana keterpisahan menjadi realitas hidup mereka. Dalam realitas ini jugalah dunia yang dipenuhi dengan rasa ketakutan akan kekurangan dengan mudah terbentuk.

Ketika manusia lupa akan ketersambungannya dengan semesta dimana dirinya berada, sangat mudah untuk merasa tak berdaya dihadapan kebesaran dan keganasan alam. Dalam kondisi tersebut keinginan untuk tetap hidup dan survive berubah menjadi ketakutan untuk tetap hidup. Persepsi akan keterpisahan dengan mudah melahirkan keyakinan bahwa hanya tersedia sumber daya dalam jumlah tertentu untuk kelangsungan hidup seseorang yang tentu saja kemudian akan menimbulkan keinginan untuk memperebutkan sumber daya tersebut.

Ketakutan akan kemungkinan dikalahkan oleh orang lain dalam perebutan sumber daya di tengah kondisi dan lingkungan yang secara fisikal menyimpan bahaya bagi kelangsungan hidup tiap individu dapat memicu timbulnya hasrat untuk memperoleh kekuatan dan kemampuan yang melebih individu lain dengan tujuan agar merasa lebih aman dan terjamin.

Begitulah, implikasi negatif dari kesadaran keterpisahan dengan semesta dan Sumber Segala Sumber Sesuatu berkembang terus menerus seiring berlalunya waktu. Ketika manusia terus dan terus menjadi makin terpisahkan satu sama lain dikarenakan pengalaman buruk atau bahkan mengerikan dan traumatis akibat perbuatan egois orang lain, kegelapan dan kejahatan menjadi makin dalam.

Di dalam dunia ke-sendirian, dimana orang saling curiga dan manusia saling “memangsa” manusia lain, hingga tidak ada yang bisa kita percayai, kemana kita harus berpaling?

Mengetahui bahwa kegelapan dan kerusakan ini akan terjadi, Sang-Pencipta berulang kali mengirim individu yang membawa cahaya kasih sayang dan kebijaksanaan-Nya ke tengah-tengah umat manusia, untuk menjadi teladan yang baik dan menunjukkan kepada manusia jalan keluar dari lingkaran destruktif kegelapan dan kejahatan.

Kebudayaan barat sebagian besar tersentuh dengan ajaran yang secara emosional sangat transformatif dari Yesus, begitupun kebudayaan di belahan dunia yang lain juga mendapatkan para penunjuk jalan yang membawa cahaya terang dalam cara dan metode yang paling sesuai dengan kondisi mereka. Contohnya adalah jalan yang ditunjukkan oleh Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Lao Tse dan Muhammad.

Saat ini, babak kehidupan manusia yang sekarang mendekati akhir masanya. Hari-hari sekarang ini adalah hari-hari perubahan. Frekuensi energi seluruh kehidupan di planet ini sedang meningkat ke level yang lebih tinggi guna memungkinkan babak baru kehidupan manusia dapat dimulai. Pengawal jaman yang tua ini satu demi satu berlalu, dan anak-anak baru dilahirkan, anak-anak dengan membawa frekuensi energi dan kesadaran yang selaras dengan kesadaran baru yang akan lahir.

Dunia sedang berubah, dan hari-hari ini kita menyaksikan lahirnya realitas baru di muka bumi. Harapan menggantikan ketakutan, kerjasama menggantikan persaingan, kasih sayang menggantikan kebencian, dan ketersambungan menggantikan keterpisahan.

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10 Guidelines for Enlightenment

Wah tak terasa dah weekend lagi, dan besok juga hari yang banyak dinantikan sebagain saudara kita...jadi ditengah suasana yang lagi "romantic" gini...enaknya gak nulis yang "berat2" dulu kali yee...enaknya santai...tapi teteuppp serius gicuu lhoo...well I guess this "10 Guidelines for Enlightenment" by swami beyonanda...is just Perfect...

:) enjoy !!

1. Be a FUNdamentalist -- ensure that the Fun always comes before the Mental. Realize that life is a situation comedy that will never be cancelled. A laugh track has been provided and the reason we are put in the material world is to get more material. Have a good laughsitive twice a day, which will ensure reguhilarity.

2. Remember that each of us has been given a special gift just for
entering, so you are already a winner!

3. The most powerful tool on the planet today is Tell-A-Vision. That's where I tell a vision to you and you tell a vision to me. That way, if we don't like the programming we're getting, we can change the channel.

4. Life is like photography -- you use the negative to develop. No
matter what adversity you face, be reassured: Of course God loves you...He's just not ready to make a commitment.

5. It is true: As we go through life thinking heavy thoughts, thought
particles tend to get caught between the ears and cause a condition called "truth decay". Be sure to use mental floss twice a day, and when you're tempted to practice 'tantrum yoga', remember what we teach in the Swami's Absurdiveness Training Class: DON'T GET EVEN, GET ODD.

6. If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad at you and you no mad at me. That way there'll surely be nomadness on the planet. Peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there. Pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.

7. I know great earth changes have been predicted for the future, so if you're looking to avoid earthquakes my advice is simple: When you find a fault don't dwell on it.

8. There's no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet
train the world and we'll never have to change it again.

9. If you're looking for the key to the Universe I've got some good
news and some bad news.
The bad news: There is no key to the Universe.
The good news: It was never locked.

10. Finally, everything I've told you is channeled. That way, if you
don't like it it's not my fault. But remember: Enlightenment is not a
bureaucracy, so you don't have to go through channels."

:) Have a nice weekend...:)

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We, God and Our Relationship...

Ada satu sahabat saya yang mengungkapkan kekhawatirannya bahwa jika tulisan yang saya paparkan di blog ini dapat membuat seseorang menjadi Atheist atau Komunis dikarenakan lemahnya "iman" orang tersebut, sebuah kekhawatiran yang sangat bisa saya mengerti. Sebagai manusia yang terlahir dalam sebuah masyarakat dengan seperangkat "conditioning" akan realitas, tentunya bukanlah perkara "mudah" bagi kita semua untuk "menerima" realitas yang berbeda dari yang selama ini telah kita kenal, yakini dan jalani.

Bagi kita yang terhubung dengan realitas fisikal melalui seperangkat sistem kepercayaan atau "belief system" dengan istilah agama, kepercayaan atau religion maka sangat logis bahwa segala persepsi, anggapan, akar pemikiran dan perspektif kita akan realitas, kenyataan dan hakikat akan diri kita dan segala sesuatu diluar diri kita akan terbentuk sebagaimana sistem kepercayaan itu mengkomunikasikan realitas itu sendiri.

Realitas, kenyataan dan hakikat dalam ke-sejatiannya adalah tak terbatas, sementara kita serba terbatas. Bagi kita yang mau berfikir mendalam, berkontemplasi atau bertafakur akan kenyataan ini, tentunya akan segera menyadari bahwa ketika yang-terbatas ingin mengenal dan mengetahui yang-tak-terbatas maka yang didapat hanyalah sebatas batasan dari yang-terbatas itu sendiri.

Jadi, kepada sahabat saya yang dengan tulus menyampaikan kekhawatirannya akan "bahaya" terjerumusnya pembaca blog ini menjadi Atheist atau Komunis, saya ucapkan terima kasih sedalam-dalamnya atas perhatian yang diberikannya kepada manusia lainnya, that's really an act of loving. Saya hanya bisa berkata, don't worry everything is gonna be alright, afterall each of us already perfect in our own way, just keep reading this blog, and you will see what I'm talking about. :)

Among the topic that attracted many interest is about... Who is God and what is our relationship to God? The reason for these questions for the most part appears to be due to the fact that many, if not most people have, from an early age, been raised by parents, relatives, schools and other organisations who "preach" about the personfied God of the major dogmatic religions. A typical vision is that of an elederly gentleman with a long flowing white beard, sometimes with a kindly face and sometimes with a stern face according to the sect of the religion, who sits on his large golden thrown surrounded by his large winged Archangels, handing out judgements as to who may go through the pearly gates of "Heaven" after passing on, and who must spend all eternity in the "hellfire" and "damnation" of "hell".

It is no surprise therefore that there is so much confusion, and just as unsurprising that the World is in the state it is in today with the focus of most people being on this perception that more likely a self imposed realities than absolute realities that there is.

The topic of "Who is God" is of course a very large, indeed infinite one, and in fact no human can possibly fully answer the question anyway. God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent as a "power" "presence" or "force" Who is totally beyond our comprehension in His/Her sheer Magnificence, Power and Presence. It is indeed true that God knows everything that occurs in the entire Universe in all spheres of life and reality from the very "highest" Being to the single celled organism all of which are equal in the "eyes" of God.

The Universal God has numerous names in accordance with individual cultures and the way Universal truths are taught to followers. God has been frequently over the ages, and indeed today most appropriately referred to as; The Universe, The Source, The First Cause, The Ether, The Akasha, The One, The All, Allah, Spirit, The Great Spirit, The Prime Creator, and by many other names. Again, this is the Universal aspect of God Who exists, has always existed and always will exist beyond the temporal confines of space and time, the same God of which we are all integral aspects, each having our own existence in the Mind of God as individuated, immortal, Spiritual beings, the very same God who is in every single one of us and we in God.

Principally we can refer to "God " by three different names:

The Source: Everything in the Universe, all Energy, vibration and life flows from The Source. Everything in the Universe is an integral aspect of, and an expression of The Source. Nothing can exist outside of, or separate to The Source. The Source is at once omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The Source is Everything that Is.

The First Cause: The Source Energy is the First Cause of everything in the Universe. Everything in the Universe was and still is being created by The First Cause. It was The First Cause that brought the entire Universe into Being within The Infinite Mind of The Source.
The Source is The First Cause, the Primary Creator in the Universe, The Macrocosm. We human beings, as expressions of The First Cause, made in the true Spiritual Image of The First Cause, are co-creators within the Universe, we are therefore secondary creators or "causes"
within our local Universe, the Microcosm, realities we create with the power of our Minds just as The First Cause creates the ultimate reality, The Universe, within the infinite Mind of The First Cause.

God: God is The Source and The First Cause. God is a name that, although subject over the ages to creed and dogma and often even personified in a human form, is nevertheless a name that almost everyone in the world can relate to as the Supreme Being in the Universe, and is therefore a name that is entirely appropriate in that context, in a Universal, non dogmatic form.

So What or Who is God in absolute terms?

Quite simply God is the entire Universe and everything contained within the Universe and exists in the form of Energy; conscious, intelligent Energy. At the very centre of this Energy is The Source of this Energy who we may call "God" . This Energy vibrates at every decreasing frequencies the further from The Source is exists until finally, at the outermost limits of The Universe is the manifesation of God with the lowest frequency, highest density of all, the physical Universe of matter. The physical world exists at such a low vibration and high density by comparison to the Universe as a Whole that it was aptly described by quantum physicist David Bohm as "frozen Light". He uses the work "Light" in its Divine sense, because another word for God, and the Energy in which we have our Being is "The Light".

The smallest unit of Universal Energy is the "Quanta", and it is of Quanta that everything is "made" by the influence of Mind. In the Macrocosm, God created the Universe by literally "thinking" it into existence. Quanta only become observable under the influence of the Mind. In the physical world scientists have already observed this when they noticed that the only time Quanta ever manifest as particles is when they are being observed.

God created the Universe, the Macrocosm in the same way that we all create our own realities, the Microcosm, by the power of thought.

When we focus on the object of a desire, we create a vibration of the Energy that corresponds to our desire in the form of an image that represents our desire, until, by the Law of Attraction vibrates in harmony with our desire thereby enabling our desire to manifest into our experiential existence. Until we vibrate in harmony with our desire, we cannot experience it. This where most people cannot attract their desires; they are simpy not vibrating the Energy of the Universe in harmony with the desire. In my view it's imperative to understanding great detail of the Law of Attraction and the processes required to bring yourself into harmony with the object of your desires. With the power of the Mind and its correct focus, there is truly nothing that you cannot be, do or have.

So what is our relationship with God? It is true that we are made in the Image of God, but not the personified image of the dogmatic religions, but rather the Spiritual image. God is pure Energy and so too are we as human beings pure Energy made in the "imagination" or image of God.

We all exist as "images" or "ideas" in the Mind of God. However, we are very complex images comprising countless Quanta of Energy, each with our own unique characteristics while at the same time sharing a particular Energy "configuration" that makes us uniquely "human". Our Energy configuration includes a part of the individuated "consciousness" or "Spirit" of God, and that is which animates us and makes us who we are. This of course is a very simplistic overview of who we are.

So how do we differ from God? The first thing we must always keep in mind is that as well as being "made" as individuated images of God, we still all share, as does everything in the Universe, the same ultimate Energy. There is no separation in the Universe. All apparent separation is nothing but an illusion brought about by the tricks of the five physical senses which perceives and "decodes" the Energy in such a way as to cause the illusion of separation. It is this widely perpetuated illusion that contributes to so much misery in the world today with the individual egos of people always working only for what they perceive as "themselves". In fact we are all one, and as such whatever we do, think or imagine immediately affects the entire Universe and everyone and everything within the entire Universe. What we do, think and imagine is therefore a huge responsibility, and a lesson that needs to be learned by all of humanity. "God" is perfect in His/Her thinking, and as a result the Universe is perfect.

So we all exist as unique "individuations" of God made in the Spiritual image of God, but how do we differ from God? The answer is "Perfection". God, the Universe is Perfection in every way. Nothing can be added to, subtracted from our modified from God to make God more perfect. God is total perfection and manages the Universe with immutable Perfection with one major force in particular, the most powerful force in the Universe, Unconditional Love. We only differ from God therefore in terms of our own individual state of perfection. It is therefore at the core of our very Soul and Spirit and who we "are" to be as "God" by evolving to the same state of perfection as God, until finally, if we choose to do so, we can achieve Unity with God at which point our consciousness is Unified with "The All" and All becomes known. This is the true meaning of Life: to evolve back to The First Cause, The Source, God.

As we achieve higher states of perfection through experience, the vibration of our individual Spiritual body increases, and as this happens we "migrate" inwards in the direction of The Source, and as we do so we become aware of ever more glorious realms of life that are far beyond the remotest comprehension of Earthly humans. This is one motivation we have to pursue perfection and evolution, the prospect and certainty that as we progress, the more "heavenly", magnificent and glorious will be our life and reality.

We evolve back to God in the process of perfection. Humans of the planet Earth are just starting out on the sacred path back to God.

Earth is the "kindergarten" of the Universe, and it is here that everyone begins the journey on the great and sacred path by learning fundamental lessons that can only be learned in a physical environment, mixing with a wide range of people and circumstances that do not exist in the Astral worlds and beyond. This is why people choose to incarnate time and again in order to learn the necessary lessons of progression on the path to perfection and therefore God.

Finally we must all keep in mind the ultimate and sacred truth that we are all one and whatever we do affects everything in creation.

Whatever we do will always return to us by the immutable Law of Cause and Effect. It is in understanding these Universal Laws that we progress, and become less and less "separate", the "inner" Beings always assisting the "outer" beings less progressed along the path in their own evolution, ever driven by Unconditional Love.

So Who is the true God?

The true God is not tyrannical, benevolent or vengeful, and does not exhibit petty human characteristics such as jealousy, caprice or anger.

The true God does not need or desire to be worshipped or to receive offerings, and is most certainly not influenced by flattery or praise.

The true God is neither demanding, vengeful or vindictive, and does not rule the Universe from high places as if He/She were a monarchy with the human race as subjects, casting down judgements and punishments at will for perceived transgressions. We are all "God", and God never punishes Him/Herself because it is through us, as expressions of God, that God continues to evolve through our individuated experiences however "good", "evil" or indifferent they might be.

The true God does not punish people for failing to believe in Him/Her, for failing to attend a church or failing to accept "Jesus" as their "saviour".

This same true God does not in any way require intermediaries or "go betweens" to be positioned in the physical world between Him/Herself and "common man" in order to interpret, represent and convey the "will" of God. No such intermediary has, has ever had or ever can or will have the ear of God, or indeed possess any other sort of special connections or relationship with God.

No such self-appointed representative of God can possibly know "God's will" or accordingly convey such "will" to the people, and neither can such intermediaries convey the wishes of the people back to God. As aspects of God, in the Mind of God, God already knows our every wish, need and desire the very moment we think it.

Above all God is neither separate from the Universe or from anyone or anything within the Universe. God is at once Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent; every human being, all life and everything within the entire Universe has its being within the infinite Mind of God, and God is within every human being, all life and everything in the entire Universe.

Everyone is a totally equal and integral aspect of God, the Supreme Universal Consciousness, The Source, The Prime Creator, The First Cause, Who in turn is the same absolute, total and complete perfection every single human being is striving to achieve during the course of the journey of evolution along the Divine path back to God from whence we all originated, of Whom we are all an integral and equal aspect and to Whom we are all destined to return.

Everyone without exception is the master of their own destiny. We all create our own realities and we are all always governed by the very same immutable Universal laws existing to maintain the perfect order of the glories, splendours and magnificence of the multi-dimensional Universe of Consciousness in which we have our being. The true God ultimately sustains everything in creation with the most powerful force, vibration, Energy of all within the Universe, in all spheres of life and reality; Pure Unconditional Love

Finally, even religions symbolically recognise the great truth that we are all as one and are all inseparable aspects of God:

Christianity: "The kingdom of heaven is within you"

Islam: "Those who know themselves know their God"

Buddhism: "Look within, thou art Buddha"

Vedanta, part of Hinduism: "Atman and Brahman are one"

Note: Atman is individual consciousness, the Microcosm and Brahman is Universal consciousness, the Macrocosm

Upanishads, part of Hinduism: "By understanding the self, all this Universe is known"

Yoga, part of Hinduism: "God dwells within you as you"

Confucianism: "Heaven, earth and human are of one body"

And finally a quote from the Christian bible which highlights this truth very well: "On that day, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you" -- John 14:20"
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