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Getting in Touch With Your Christ / Buddha Nature: Your Authentic Self
Copyright (c) 2008 Dick Rauscher T
he phrase "manifesting your Buddha nature" is something you hear a lot when you are around Buddhists. When spirituality became the focus of the New Age movement, it was common for Christians to begin speaking about manifesting their Christ nature. For those interested in new age spirituality that meant learning to talk softly, move slowly, smile beatifically, meditate as often as possible, and try hard to look and behave "spiritually". From the beginning, the primary goal of the new age spirituality movement has been to feel good; a narcissistic focus on self and the attainment of personal enlightenment.
Having little faith that institutional Christian mainline church membership or church attendance would satisfy their spiritual hunger they turned to individual unverifiable expressions of spirituality. Because the new age paths to enlightenment lacked the depth required for authentic spiritual growth, it made it very difficult to stay in touch with one's "Christ nature" unless one was in the company of other New Age spiritual people. New age spiritual seekers found it to be a significant challenge to move slowly, talk softly, smile beatifically, and meditate in the average work environment without looking weird.
Manifesting one's "Christ nature" at home often meant dealing with sarcasm and ridicule from their adolescent children, while their neighbors were of the assumption that the stress of raising adolescent children had somehow led to a psychotic break. While the desire and hunger for spirituality was genuine, the new age path was filled with unqualified teachers and magazine articles that taught whatever they narcissistically thought was "the way" to achieve enlightenment. The spiritual hunger of their new age followers often turned into disillusionment and discouragement.
So what does it mean to authentically manifest your Buddha or Christ nature? What have we learned about authentic spiritual growth since the beginning of the new age spirituality movement?
Paradoxically, we have learned that manifesting one's Christ nature has little to do with how we feel or appear on the outside yet everything to do with our outer behaviors. The goal of authentic spirituality is not to personally feel good; it is a deep desire to change the world by manifesting a true compassion and unconditional love for others; to "become" compassion, not "do" compassion. The path to enlightenment and authentic spiritual growth is found only in the practice of compassion and selfless acts of kindness that come from deep self-knowledge. In Christian language it means becoming consciously and intentionally aware of the log in our own eye before we worry about how others are living their lives.
Mastering the demanding and challenging work of learning to pay conscious attention, moment by moment, to what we are actually manifesting in the world is a life long spiritual practice which requires training our adult observing ego consciousness to look inside for answers rather than outside. It requires learning to own our own feelings instead of blaming them on others. It means learning to accept full responsibility for the consequences of our choices. I
n other words, manifesting our Christ nature or our Buddha nature is not about how we appear to others or our religious faith beliefs, it is only about practice; the practice of compassion. In fact, the religious beliefs of our primitive ego, that black-and-white part of us that "always has to be right", frequently turns our attempts to manifest true unconditional love and compassion into a hurtful and judgmental conditional love; a love that says "I am able to love you only as long as you (the condition)." Because our primitive ego is always right, when others disagree with our primitive ego, instead of accepting the fact that they simply don't agree, our primitive ego feels that the other person is saying we are wrong. Feeling criticized, our primitive ego will quickly get angry and assume "they" are wrong.
Until we become awakened and conscious of our primitive ego, the beliefs, defenses, and survival skills of our unconscious inner-child will frequently create a judgmental sense of "otherness" using primitive dualistic black-and-white categories called "us versus them". Our narcissistic primitive ego tends to be very defensive and is concerned primarily with self; our own wants, feelings, and desires. The needs of others are assumed to be unimportant and in fact interfere with our primitive ego's sense of entitlement.
Our primitive ego consciousness does not understand the concept of mutuality; the simple reality that others people's needs and feelings are just as important to "their" primitive ego as our needs and feelings are to "our" primitive ego. Virtually all of the conflict and violence we see in the world today stems from our inability to understand the importance of mutuality.
Only our adult observing ego is capable of a sustained mutuality and the ability to manifest a true, unconditional compassion for others. Our observing ego embraces mutuality from a deep sense of unity and oneness with others; a deep systemic sense of "we-ness" that observes the world and the needs of others through a lens of empathy and compassion.
Unlike our primitive ego, our adult observing ego is fully aware of the imperialistic religious superiority and the "white", Western sense of privilege built into the theologies of our various mainline religions. Our more enlightened observing ego consciousness honors and respects the feelings, beliefs, and needs of others and intentionally attempts to manifest kindness, honesty, patience, tolerance, inclusiveness, and caring; an unconditional compassion deeply grounded in the "not knowing" and "emptiness of ego" that comes with true enlightenment.
Taming our primitive ego and maturing our adult observing ego, so as to enable us to manifest our true Christ nature, is a life long process of authentic spiritual growth and enlightenment that comes only through an intentional growth in our self-awareness. There is no one path, or right path, to self-knowledge, but all valid paths to self-awareness and enlightenment require the help of a well trained spiritual teacher. It is virtually impossible for our ego to see itself. Some seek growth in self-awareness through years of mindfulness meditation or psychotherapy. Some find the life long spiritual practice of contemplative prayer for others to be helpful. Regardless of the path one chooses, the goal of self-awareness is always growth in compassion and unconditional love for the world and others. Authentic spiritual growth and growth in self-awareness are one and the same.
Learning to mature our observing ego consciousness so-as-to manifest our Christ nature, or our Buddha nature, requires a life long commitment to authentic spiritual growth. The truly enlightened person has so thoroughly tamed their ego, that when asked if they are enlightened, they have trouble understanding the question and will typically respond with "I don't know" because compassion, unconditional love, and selfless acts of loving kindness will have become simply who they "are", not what they "do". In other words, when you meet a truly enlightened person, they will have so completely tamed their ego that you will have the experience of being the only person or ego present. Enlightened people allow you to experienced the world in a uniquely new way. The truly enlightened person tends to collect disciples.
Jesus and Buddha were such enlightened souls. I suspect Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King were well on their way to enlightenment.
About the Author
Dick Rauscher is retired from 25 years in private practice as a pastoral psychotherapist, a certified Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, a New York State licensed Mental Health Counselor, a writer and publisher of the Stonyhill Spiritual Growth Newsletter, and the author of many other articles published on www.stonyhill.com on the subjects of authentic spiritual growth, The Primitive Ego Theory of Human Development, and the intentional evolution of human consciousness.
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Bat trang ceramic statue lucky buddha 8x5 cm US $13.00
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Bat trang ceramic statue buddha US $17.00
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88 COPPER SILVER GILT BUDDHA sitting on a seat SCULPT US $288.00
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Buddha US $25.00
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Buddha Portrait Bust Asian Buddhism Eastern Religious Art 24X36 Oil Painting US $98.95
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Blue Golden Buddha Oil on Canvas Painting ORIGINAL ART by Deborah Duffy US $100.00
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BAMBOO ROOT SCULPTURE HEAD FACE Laughing Happy Buddha MS8 US $1.57
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