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Which Reality Is Real?
Your task is to make wholeness more real in your life. As long as you remain on the level where change is dominant, there is no possibility of truly becoming new.
Duality maintains its operating system from moment to moment, and as long as you are plugged into it, that system seems real, workable, reliable, and self-validating.
The other operating system, the one based on wholeness, works far better than the system you are used to. Wholeness is also real, workable, reliable, and self-validating.
Wholeness is safe; duality isn’t. Protection from external threats is permanent when there are no externals but only yourself unfolding in two worlds, inner and outer, that completely mesh.
A skeptic will protest that this new operating system is only a matter of perception, and that just seeing yourself as the creator of your reality doesn’t mean you are. But it does. Reality shifts as you do, and when you change your perception of being separate, the one reality responds by shifting with you.
The reason everyone doesn’t notice this is that the ego-based world with all its demands, pressures, drama, and excesses is highly addictive, and like any addiction it needs a daily fix as well as denial that there is any way out.
By giving your allegiance to the one reality instead, you won’t end the addiction immediately, but you will begin to starve it. Your ego and personality, which give you limited awareness of who you are, will be put on notice that clinging and grasping must come to an end.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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add your comment »Aliii, the way I understand it is that our body/ego is on one level - this world we see - and things are always changing. Our spirit is on a higher level where it is always at peace. This body will pass in a flash, but the real us - our spirit - will always be there. So as we get more in touch with our spirit in that higher level, we're able to drop a lot of the negative things in this level...
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okay, please explain this statement: As long as you remain on the level where change is dominant, there is no possibility of truly becoming new. I don't get it. But then, I've never gotten what Chopra is saying. I've read many other authors in the metaphysical realm, basically saying the same thing (I already get it, I create my own reality) but Chopra's words don't compute in my brain... must be the way he thinks, some authors books work for some, but not all.
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Dixon... I agree with you that one cannot make their body 10 years younger... If we could that would put a whole lot of plastic surgeons out of business...lol. It is my belief and much of what I get out of DC's topics; that we are not this body, this body is only a shell that we currently inhabit. This body grows old and decays while the spirit (soul) stays intact. In my mind I feel like I am still a teenager; willing to try new things and take on the world; but this body in its' current state only allows me to do so much. As I continue to peel away the layers of ego; I am beginning to develop deeper understandings of what is and what isn't real (Truth). This world is only a delusion of our own perceptions and societal pressures. The actual reality is; that this life is what we make of it. "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." Buddha
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Poor little Dixon, you just aren't ready yet, are you? And, really, that's ok. Some are ready and some are not. No judgement.
Please let me add my favorite quote: Your perception is your reality.
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Nightcat --- If you can change your reality, which I do not believe other than through hard work, resources and opportunity, why don't you make yourself 10 years younger than you currenty are. It is easy to change our perception of reality but very difficult to change actual reality and in many cases we cannot change reality.
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People understand whatever their level of conciousness allows them. Thanks Deepak for writing all the nice stuff. Thanks to all who leave comments here. We make communities when we learn to apply non violent speech to every intervention. May peace with you at all times.
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Thank you Nightcat for expressing so well what I would have liked to say. I cannot change anyone else's reality but my own. I come to this site to seek guidance on how to change attitudes and perceptions that I know no longer serve me or those in the world around me. That in itself will not stop wars, world hunger, hate, or intolerance. However, it WILL change ME, thus I put out to that wounded world a new attitude of love, tolerance, compassion, and peace. The more beings who choose a higher, more loving way of being, the less these world problems will have power in our "reality". Right NOW, right HERE, I am choosing to be loving and peaceful, and I am projection that energy out into the world, so that, right NOW is my reality. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi.
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Well chosen words of wisdom. Thank you.
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Deepak isn't suggesting we can change other people's reality. But we can change ours. We after all make our own heaven or hell. If we admit we have this power we can change our own reality for the better.
If we untie our inner and outer selves, see that seperation is an illusion we become whole. Just because I or you hit nirvana does not mean a war will end. Those who stated the war, the leaders must change.
Also if every fighter yelled "Enough!" and dropped their arms, war would be over. But humans being rather violent find that hard to do. That and if you do drop weapons in this reality you get shot for desertion.
Did you know in WWII the men stopped fighting in one area to honor Christmas? Men crossed no man's land safely, and exchanged gifts. All became brotherhood and love. Less evolved beings had to force these men back into killing each other.
Had those who forced the killing to resume evolved we just might have world peace. True wholeness is stable and unchanging. As long as we change we are involving towards wholeness.
In other words, if my life is terrible I made it that way. I can't blame God, my neighbors, or flamers on the 'net. Not that I'm so highly evolved, mind you. :)
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Lynn --- Reality, in its common definition means things as they actually are. What you appear to saying is that one can change his "perception of reality." That is far different than actually changing reality. Men are actually dying in IRaq, show me that you can change that reality. If even Deepak can do it why doesn't he???? Now one can use their imagination to change reality IF he adds hard work, resources, and opportunity. Even then there is no guarantee.
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