Chapter 10: Part 1 - Free Will
(video of reading of Ch 10 Part 1, in its entirety, at bottom of this post)
One morning Jon was "feeling sorry for [him]self", missing old friends, & talked to Anastasia [adept monk] about his friend who almost came with him to the monastery. Jon tried to meditate but kept thinking of the past & letting his thoughts get out of control. He was confused about past choice, free will, & destiny.
ANASTASIA: Free will is the most important legacy we have from the Universal Spirit. We are constantly being presented with choices in life, "forks in the road" that lead to different places. Free will lets us choose. The ability to choose gives us the power to take our life in any direction we want, & thus, do virtually anything we want with our life, and create our future life. But it was our free will choices that got us in trouble in the 1st place, in separating from God. Most importantly now, used properly, it is what gives us the ability to get out of the hole we dug ourselves into, and get back to Oneness with God.
ZAIN: The monastery is known as the School of the Prophets. [To Jon] It is now time for you to begin your studies & training in ancient Atlantean methods that create certain prophetic abilities - deep concentrated contemplation, realization of cause & effect, free will, and destiny.
ANCIENT TEXTS:
Foolish Child
Know Not that you Reap What you Sow?
What will you have done today
In your life and those of others?
Pray Do You?
Know Not that You Have Free Will?
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To Be a Fool For God
Is to be a True Child of the Law of One
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Learn the ways of Universal Law,
of Cause and Effect.
As we break the Law,
So do we lose our Freedom.
Recognize your Free Will
Realize your Free Will
Know your Free Will
Use Your Free Will
In Harmony With Universal Will
and be Free
Every Moment we come upon another
Fork in the Road
Every Moment we Choose
Our Way, Our Destiny
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Every Action creates Reactions
Choosing not to act, is an action with a Reaction
If you choose not to actively serve the Light
You are choosing to actively serve Darkness
If you choose not to actively serve
The Universal Spirit
You are choosing to actively serve
The Selfish Separate Self,
The Collective Selfish Self, and Evil.
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No Choice Have You
But to Choose.
Choose you Will
Between Darkness & Light
Between Good & Evil
Between Give & Take
Between Love & Hate
Between Selfishness and Selflessness
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Where you are
Where have you Been
Where You will Be
Is affected by Your Choice
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Every Fork
Is a Way
To Serve God, Or Run From God
Think You that You can hide From God?
Think You that you can Run From Yourself?
Think You that God is not One and All?
Think
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Our Consciousness is the Result
of Our own Choosing
Where you are
Is Where you have come
Where you Will go
Is decided by how you are
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We Forge Our Will
In the Fires of Our Suffering
We Temper Our Will
In the Waters of Discipline
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When One Applies Free Will
To achieve Freedom From the Separate Self,
The Self Causes Pain
The One who Chooses the Path of Selfishness
Finds that Pain and Suffering follow him
ETERNALLY
The One who chooses the Path of UnSelfishness
Finds that Pain and Suffering are but
A Passing Storm
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Interfere Not With the Free Will of Others
As you would not have them Interfere with yours.
Interfere Only with the Free Will of Those
Who are Interfering with the Free Will of Others.
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Free Will Directs The Mind
Mind Creates Reality,
On All Planes.
All Things Come First
From The Mind
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With Free Will, We Choose Our Destiny.
We were destined to Choose
The destiny we have Freely Chosen.
Spiritual Schizophrenia
After reading the texts, Jon asked Zain for clarification.
ZAIN: We all have both a selfish separate self, and an Inner Being that is One with God. In this sense, every human has a sort of "split personality"...The free will dictates which of these 2 sides will have its way in our life, at every given moment.
JON: The internal battle is unbelievably hard at times.
ZAIN: The struggle is nothing less than the war between good & evil. Ther can be no harder battles, & ultimately, the war.
...One side wins out over the other simply because we use our free will to choose which side we will go with - which side we will lend our mind to, our attention to, our thoughts to - and ultimately, which side we will lend our actions to...And the result of our choices change everything in our life, and the life of others.
Example: Someone who has more often chosen selfishness over time will have lower consciousness than someone who has more often chosen Unselfish Love...Yet in the worst, there is still a divine spark of Universal consciousness buried deep within them, and in the best people (except for the enlightened ones) there is still the seed of selfishness. Thus all can still break [free] from their norm at any time, and make different choices, and change their consciousness, and thus even turn their lives around.
Free Will & Suffering
ZAIN: People who have not become totally Unselfishly Loving beings, are always in pain, always in turmoil. They have an unrelenting unpleasant disturbance within them, that they are constantly trying to emotionally cover-up, and get distracted from...They do [all kinds of] things to run from the part of them that is God within them. But just like there is no running away from yourself, there is no real getting away from God. THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT ONENESS WITH GOD.
Split Personality:
Selfishness (devil side) VERSUS Universal Spirit (Christ side)
Selfish (wanting & taking) VERSUS Unselfish (considerate & giving)
...By making a selfish choice, we create new karma that causes suffering...Lack of doing God's Will, and being separate from God, creates pain, loneliness, emptiness, a gnawing dis-ease deep down...It can never be any other way when you choose the selfish path - you will always have pain, and you exert constant energy, struggling forever to block out God. And you can never be happy, or have peace. the most you can hope for with a selfish path, is temporary pleasures...{and you pay for it} with an equal measure of its opposite...and on top of all that pain, life also keeps "hitting" you with the results of your "karma". It only happens every once in a while, but it's bad when it does...And when you were hit with such pain, didn't it force you to be introspective?
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Suffering is what brings most people to the spiritual path in the 1st place...But once they really start the process to spiritual growth, they find that they are experiencing a great deal of pain from the SELF, from their EGO...Plus the choice of the selfish path keeps creating more negative karma, that will KEEP COMING BACK to cause you MORE PAIN & SUFFERING...The type of suffering [Jon} is experiencing now, will vanish when [he] reach[es] the end of [his] path, and become[s] enlightened.
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Peace will be yours in time - freedom from the pain of the selfish emotions (like hate, anger, jealousy) will be yours in time - ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KEEP USING YOUR FREE WILL TO KEEP WALKING THE LIGHT PATH. Keep re-directing your mind to thinking loving, giving, caring thoughts. Keep remembering the rewards of serving God - Love, ultimate security, peace, happiness, the joy of giving & seeing others lifted up & freed from their bonds of slavery to dark selfishness & pain.
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You have not even faced the pain your self is going to throw at you to prevent its ultimate loss of control, and prevent your enlightenment, so be prepared...Until you have achieved Universal Consciousness, there is always a chance of you turning away from the light. Be prepared, and don't sit feeling confident. Feel committed, and affirm that commitment daily. Think positive, food thoughts, but be vigilant...If you are not vigilant, your selfish separate self will sneak up behind you when you least expect it. SPIRITUAL EGO IS THE GREATEST & ONE OF THE FINAL DANGERS OF THE PATH.
Jon's Example: Jesus suffering in the garden before his arrest.
Bottom Line: if you want the pain to stop, you need to DECIDE to take the path of LOVE, no matter what you encounter, and you need to WANT to change, and you need to MAINTAIN YOUR CONVICTION to accomplish your goal, once you really set it. Then simply apply yourself consistently, with all the tools at your disposal.'
The Free Will of Others
RUSSO (Adept Monk): Free Will is involved in 2 primary tenets of the CLO -
1. Honoring the free will decisions of others is considered VITAL, and absolute.
...the only time one should interfere with another person's free will, is when the other person is inflicting THEIR will om someone else...Even if we KNOW for certain something is wrong or the person will get hurt, OTHER THAN WARNING THEM ABOUT THE EFFECTS THEY ARE CAUSING, we are NOT to interfere with their freedom.
Our Free Will
2. Recognizing & utilizing our free will.
You HAVE FREE WILL...When you truly real-ize that you have free will, it empowers you totally. But it also makes you responsible, and gives you responsibility...The responsibility of being the main creator of your life...most people really don't want to take responsibility for what happens with their lives, they don't really want to truly accept the idea that they have free will.
VIDEO: Reading of Ch.10 Part 1 (words & audio in entirety)
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