Drop ALL Your Beliefs About Truth

It’s very easy to read some wise sounding words by an enlightened guru and turn their teachings into a structured belief system. Heck, that’s basically what happened with mainstream religions like Christianity and Islam, among others.

Jesus said this. Mohammad said that. Ramana said this. Buddha said that.

When we hear things such as “we are all one,” if that’s adopted as just a belief system, it may be “better” than another belief system given that it’s more supportive to life than the idea of separation and a helpful stepping stone along the path, it’s still part of the same game people have been playing for thousands of years: Accepting belief systems on hearsay.

The mind can be convinced of ANYTHING…

Eventually there comes a time when we’re ready to look beyond all beliefs entirely and see what’s been here this whole time. What’s always true, belief or no belief.

Every word you’ve ever heard any enlightened or unenlightened person say, it must be ultimately dropped as if it itself was the Truth. The words you hear are only pointers. Every “Truth” you believe to be true, drop it. If we’re honest with ourselves, when we buy into a spiritual belief system, we’re buying into our own chosen belief systems just as much as the Nazis accepted Hitler’s fear-based beliefs. It’s two sides of the same coin. Believing in love or believing in fear. It’s still belief.

We can rationalize it by saying it’s more heart-centered or it resonates with me more or whatever, but it’s still within the same domain of mind.

Waking up out of the dream state is about going beyond ALL belief systems. PERIOD.

Check out this video where author David Hawkins addresses exactly this topic, the difference between talking about and knowing the truth.

As my friend Scott Kiloby puts it, “Spiritual ideas are like heroin. When you get hooked on any spiritual idea (including oneness, enlightenment, meditation, presence, no self, awareness, consciousness, beingness or any other idea) remember that there will be a weaning off of that idea at some point. Liberation is about the possibility of waking up now to what is looking at all those ideas rather than believing any of them.”

I’ve found for myself that the deeper I go into my own journey, the more subtle things get. Everything other than direct experiential realization and inner knowingness, GONE.

It can feel strange letting go of ideas you’re certain are true, like the idea that you are a divine being or whatever, knowing that you’ll likely wind up coming back to the same conclusions that you already now have accepted. The difference is that you’ll know due to your own inner realization, not due to some accepted belief.

The realization is of what you really are is SO much different than any belief ever could be.

Beliefs such as “I am God” or “I am Love” or “I am that I am.” If it’s just a belief, throw it out. If you want the truth, throw it out. As totally valid and accurate as any mental concept may be, holding on to spiritual truths as beliefs does nothing but transfer you from one dream state experience to another.

If you choose to cling onto dead words, you may wind up like those who clutch onto their holy scriptures as if the books themselves were literally what’s valuable, not realizing that ALL of life is EQUALLY valuable, the sinner and the saint, the king and the peasant. Remember that whole unconditional love thing? This is why. Everything is equally the divine in expression.

True realization is a living Truth, hundreds of time more real than anything the mind could imagine or could ever be put down into words.

The mind doubts and believes. Who you really are just knows.

When you know, you KNOW, and you KNOW that you know. It’s not that you believe really strongly or it makes logical sense or it sounds like a good idea or it’s what I choose to believe because it works for me and gets me what I want. No, you KNOW because you ARE it. You come from expressing the Truth of your very being.

Again, there’s nothing wrong choosing to adopt spiritual beliefs. No judgment. Many people are choosing to play this game, giving All That Is yet another experience of itself. This is certainly a higher level than some of the alternative less conscious options available. Certainly. It has its place.

Yet for those of you who are ready to smash out of the dream state, DROP ALL YOUR BELIEFS. Everything that you’ve ever read, it’s just a pointer. It’s not the Truth.

Truth isn’t found by finding the right belief system or the right religion.

Do you think you’re God? You just are what you are, regardless of that thought. Who would you be without that thought that you are God?

Everything you believe to be the Truth, drop it. See what remains.

What is actually True never can be lost.

What is here, belief or no belief?