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have a hard time picturing a defian Jesus, motivated by ego, chastising
those who would not worship his name>
I do too, Mark. In fact, I don't even entertain that kind of image in my thought. It is simply too insane, to think that Jesus really wanted to be worshiped. I think the great impressive thing about Jesus was that he was so totally unidentified with the ego, and so merged, really, with Spirit that such an idea wouldn't even occur to him.
Here's how I see it. When Jesus said things like I and the Father are One....or, only through me...etc...he was not referring to himself personally; rather, he was referring to that which he had found within his own consciousness, with which he had become so totally identified.
This is Spirit, or whatever. Of what we know, it is the Christ to which he was referring, except he didn't call it that...not speaking in Latin or Greek. In another part of the world, another mystic and teacher taught essentially the same thing. Instead of the Christ, this mystical I was called the Buddha nature.
Basically, he was saying, there is this other dimension, which is not of this world...not based on fear, greed, hate, duality, etc...and this other dimension is the real I...the I AM...and this is a dimension that is deep within the core of each and every one of us. It is through this that we come to God.
Jesus lived among the people of his time in an everyday kind of life, and in all his relationships he was coming out from this Christ nature, demonstrating love and abundance thusly.
No..I have no problems with his teachings. He was so.....un-doctrinaire....
Best,
Charliss |
