We need inner experience to know things to be true, instead of believing them to be true because other people say they are. Unfortunately, the most common is this second-hand or hearsay religion.
Religion was intended to give us an experience of our original participation or our primal unity. Before we are many, we are one. The True Self that exists is the communal “Body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12).
If we know how to use our non-discriminating mind, our happiness and the happiness of others will increase many times over. This is “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16).
We have to train ourselves to see with non-discrimination. To see our oneness with all: that the flower is us, the mountain is us, our parents and our children are all us. When we see that everyone and everything belongs to the same stream of life, our suffering will vanish.
This inner experience is not a doctrine or a philosophy. It is an insight that can help us live life more deeply, suffer less, and enjoy life more. This inner experience of oneness with all and with God is to experience and know our One True Self!
1 Corinthians 2:12 “What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”
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