The day the blinders come off

 Release from guilt is the ego’s whole undoing.

A Course in Miracles

 

Many people are well-meaning even though their actions are conflicted. Some want to do right by their children, others want to do right by Jesus, or their notion of ethics and are then surprised why the real-life outcomes are hit-and-miss.

 

I have often commented in my writings why the road to hell is paved with good intentions: conditioned mind implies an inner conflict. Our notion of self is a thought-created concept that interferes with life as is. Our vision is impaired!

 

Here is the part where we lose the atheistic scientific-minded reader. They still tolerate the assertion that our steering instruments are flawed but they would look for compensating measures. I say we are designed to hit a wall!

 

The conditioned mind-made matrix has to be dropped altogether to see the world beyond it. We cannot get “more and more” spiritual—we have to remove the distorted eyeglasses in one go. We have to face the void that refuses to be seen.

 

We remove guilt by doing right and we recognize the right action by letting go of the self-generated steering system that generated the guilt. Life’s problems are designed to lead us to this realization. We do that by facing the void.

 

Concretely, what is it that you and I have to do differently today to break free from this inter-generational problem statement? It’s both quite simple and really hard: sit with the inner conflict. Don’t run from the tension. Watch it dissolve!