Building Your Foundation

(continuation from the post "The Illusion is Your Friend")

"If you think a foundation involves having money, involves having a lover, involves beauty or fame or whatever material ‘goal’ you have in mind? Then you are nothing. Any of those gets taken away from you, your foundation topples. Your castle is made out of glass, very fragile. Foundation can only be built within. Your castle is made out of diamonds. Everything else, the money, the beauty, the fame, the lover, etc are nothing but bonuses." 

- AllYouAreisHeaven

A question is a hole in our reality truth which we usually mistakenly answer using the thinking mind’s ignorant and hasty judgement, which will do nothing but cause you major confusion now and down the line -- we fill the hole with false information. Instead, we must patiently wait for the answer to reveal itself which will fill the hole with an accurate answer without thinking it. It is a downward energy. The questions that arises within us uses the upward energy (WONDER), and the accurate answers which reveals itself requires a downward energy (KNOWING, aka rooted). This creates a foundation. This requires no effort (only thinking causes effort). We tend to either put all our energy in the head: female energy/Mother Earth reaching for the Sun); Or around the bottom of the spine: male energy/Father Sun driving energy down/gravity; Both are needed to maximize life force, EQUILIBRIUM. Our real centers are located in the solar plexus and heart chakra, refer to following image.

Both diagrams explain the tetrahedron (aka merkaba) quality of the human energy system. The tetrahedron is sacred geometry, the basic geometry found everywhere in nature, including the human body. Upper pyramid (energy directed up): Wonder; Lower pyramid (energy directed down): Knowing, Rooted. This doctrine is found in Gnosticism, Masonry, and Judaism, and most possibly in others religions. Our Awareness extends in all outward directions of the body and not trapped in the skull or the confines of the mind. (Please ignore the 'female merkaba'  written on the first diagram and just look at the general idea of the image)

Questions cannot be answered using the same energy as the question, which is the upward energy. The answer can only be REVEALED using downward energy. There are infinite questions and therefore infinite answers, which means one thing: that you DO NOT NEED to have all the answers now! Every question about yourself (and also the real world) will be eventually answered. In your observances about the Self, every discovery leads to a question which leads to the discovery of an answer and so on, discover the hidden treasures within you, your Real Self is all there waiting for you to discover. So we must fill the holes in our reality WISELY, one by one, as each question presents itself (upward) in order for each answer to reveal itself (downward).

The more holes we fill with an ignorant answer (having to use the thinking mind, which is using effort), the more a part of your reality slides away to form pockets of illusions, which is why we become so confused. Our reality easily topples with the illusion of a foundation -- a confused foundation. This pockets of illusions turns into a system of emotional beliefs that now you have to constantly refer to (using the mind of course) and have become accustomed to live by. This causes tunnel-vision in which you can’t perceive anything outside of the emotional beliefs, giving you the illusion that you have no choice but to be controlled by your system of emotional beliefs. You are controlled by the mind because you have given it the responsibility of answering all your questions about yourself (and about the real world) and will search for anything which affirms it, according to its logic. This is the Grand Illusion.

The balance of the upward reaching out towards the heavens and downward energies, rooting firmly into the ground, Earth. You need both energies, simultaneously (you will experience balanced breathing: inhale upwards; exhale downwards). So we fill the holes with real information instead of the Illusion's information. You can eventually fill all the question holes with the accurate answers/information about the Real Self. You most likely need to discard a belief that is blocking you from discovering the answer, which is hidden behind the false belief(s). We have to fill the holes we have about our selves and replace it with the real information. When all Self-doubt and any weaknesses in your beliefs have been removed and is replaced with KNOWING about the Real Self, we become WHOLE, ALL-KNOWING. 

PEACE fills the body, then STRENGTH fills the body, then DRIVE fills the body, then REAL POWER is acquired. Thus you have built an immovable foundation of your Being, your diamond castle.

"Know that the body is a fragile jar,

And make a castle out of your mind.

In every trial

Let understanding fight for you

To defend what you have won."

- The Dhammapada, The Sayings of the Buddha