The Great Difficulty of Our Life Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on November 16, 2001 Wisdom Point: The Great Difficulty In Our Life Is The Life of "Separation From" Within Us That Is Hiding The Life of "Oneness With" Within Us Selection: Spiritual Letter 5 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Outline For This Web Page 3. Rest of Document - without an outline The Life of Deception Within Us - back to outline My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the great difficulty of our life, this "Life of Deception" that we have allowed to grow within us, that we, in our ignorance of ourselves, have allowed to grow over us, to obscure the truth of us, like clouds appearing on the earth obscure the light of the moon and even the light of the sun, thereby preventing all of the lives living on the earth benefiting from that light. This is the real problem in our life. This is what makes our life hard. Keeping the lie of us going is what makes our life hard and difficult. Anyone who has ever tried to keep a lie going knows this, how hard it is to keep a falsehood going, while truth is very easy to maintain. It takes very little effort to tell the truth, because it is natural to us, because it is the reality of us, but a lie is very hard to tell and maintain, at least initially, because it is unnatural to us, to the reality of us, to the original nature of us, to the "us" of us that God personally placed within us. This falsehood of us is always hiding the truth of us, always keeping the truth of us buried deep within the falsehood of us. This is who we have become. This is where we now live. This is what is now happening in our life. This "Life of Deception" within us, this falsehood of us is what we have become, and is what we are constantly nourishing and maintaining by our life of deception, by our life in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us. This is who we have become in ignorance of who we are, of where we are, and of what is happening in life. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth about us, about all of us, without the slightest doubt, if we are ever to be victorious in our life, if our wisdom is to reason over our fate. In this way, we must realize with our wisdom that this life of falsehood within us, this "Life of Deception" within us, has secretly grown within each of us, and has very gradually taken over our original life. And through our wisdom we must come to know, understand, and discard, our "Life of Deception", by coming to know, understand, and embrace our "Life of Truth", the life of God within us that is just waiting to emerge from within us, as an apple tree is always just waiting to emerge from within an apple seed buried in the earth, just waiting for the apple seed to realize the truth about itself, and having realized, understood, accepted, and joined with that truth, to join with the earth and germinate, to join with the earth to tell the story of the apple tree hidden within it, the story which in completion is the apple tree in maturity. Shifting What We Believe In Our LIfe From "Outside" To "Inside" My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is what we must start to believe in, not in what we have become, not in where we now think we are, not in what we think is happening in our life and in the lives that we see around us. This is what we must do in our life, what all of us must do in our life, if we are ever to become victorious in our life, we must completely stop what we are currently doing in our life, which is but a reflection of what we currently believe in our life, which is all false, and in each moment of our life, hand all of this falsehood away, hand all of this falsehood back to the One who created this falsehood and handed it to us, so we can hand it back to Him, rejecting it as who we are and accepting Him as who we are, so He can harvest it, so He can reveal Himself as True Man within His Creation, as God within True Man, as True Man within God, as the oneness of God and True Man. This is how we will be victorious in our life, by saying "no" to "free will", and "yes" to "Your will", by saying "no" to "our will be done", and "yes" to "Your will be done", by saying "no" to us, and "yes" to God, by saying "no" to us as separate from God, and "yes" to us as the oneness of God and True Man, which God will automatically reveal within us, when we get our "no's" and "yes's" correct. This is how we will be victorious in our life, by saying "no" to us as separate from God, or separate from our brothers and sisters, or separate from any of the creations of God, and "yes" to the oneness of us and God, which is our "treeness", and "yes" to the oneness of us and all of our brothers and sisters, which is our "seedness", and "yes" to the oneness of us and all of the creations of God, which is our "earthness". Rest of Document - back to outline This is what we must do, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if we are to be victorious in our life, if we are to overcome the "Great Difficulty of Our Life", which is so very large that we cannot even see it, most of the time, which is so very big that we do not even know it exists, most of the time, until it is to late. Only God can deal with "our problem", because in truth it is not "our problem", it is "His Problem", it is what has happened to Him, not to us, because in truth we do not exist, it is God who exists not us, and we only exist within His existence within us, and what we are currently experiencing as our own life, is only happening because it is how God awakens Himself to the reality of Himself within Himself within us, if we want it, if we want Him over us, if we love Him over loving ourselves, if we want the true reality of us which is the oneness of God and True Man within us, instead of the false reality of us which is us as separate from God within us, if we will but join with Him within us to reveal Him within Him within us, and destroy us as separate from Him within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, we need to think about this truth a little. For example, does an apple seed really exist as separate from the apple tree and the apple that it came from, or from the earth that it is buried within, or from the apple tree and the apples that are hidden within it? Of course not! The apple seed only exists because the apple tree and its apples exist, because the earth that the apple tree is buried in exists, and because it was created to tell the story of the apple tree buried in the earth, by joining with the earth to tell this story, to tell this story by germinating, once it awakens within the earth to the truth of itself, to the truth of itself that naturally emerges from within it, when it is ready to hear it, once it realize, understands, accepts, and joins with the truth that it is an apple seed, that it is buried in the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree within it to grow. And in a similar way, neither do we, neither do we exist as separate from our Creator, from God and from the "fruits of God" that we have come from, or from the "earth of us" that we are currently buried within, or from the "seed of us" that is buried within us, that is the truth of us just waiting to germinate, and reveal the "tree of us", or from the "tree of us" or from the "fruits of us" that are hidden within the "seed of us", just waiting to be revealed. Of course not! And yet, we are living as if we are separate from all of these things, and as long as we maintain our separation from them, than like the apple seed that never germinates, that stays in ignorance of itself, buried in the earth but separate from it, we will never germinate and reveal the truth of us, we will never reveal our oneness with God, with True Man, and with the Creations of God within us, we will never join with God, with the oneness of God and True Man, to reveal the oneness of God and True Man within us. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that this truth of us is our heritage, is our birthright, is what we will naturally, effortlessly become, as God created us to be, if we will but let it happen, if we will but let go of what we have falsely become in ignorance of ourselves, of what currently and falsely defines us, of what falsely tells us who we are, where we are, and what is happening in life, in all life. Like the apple seed that fails to germinate, this life of ours, this current life of ours, this falsehood of us, keeps us buried in the "earth of us" but separate from it, keeps us in ignorance of our true self, keeps us separate from all that the "earth of us" is in truth one with, which is the "seed of us", and the "tree of us", keeps us in ignorance of ourselves, and will continue to be our life, our life of falsehood, until we eventually die in the "earth of us", rot in the "earth of us", and are eventually absorbed into the "earth of us", finally becoming one with the "earth of us" but still in ignorance of it and of who we are, for eternity, forever breaking our direct connection with God and with all that God is one with, transforming our personal or private heaven into God's public hell. This is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", our ignorance of who we are, of what we have become, of what we have let happen to us, of what we have done and have not done with what we were given by God, and of the fate we will most certainly suffer because of our failure to allow the wisdom within us to awaken, the wisdom or consciousness of the oneness of God and True Man that naturally surrounds our soul, but remains dormant within us until it is awakened by the words of God, like we are sharing now. This is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", not who we marry, or where we live, or how much money we make, or what schools we have attended, or how successful we have been, or how successful our children have been, or anything like that, and not even whether we live or die, because in truth we are already dead, we just don't know it yet, because what we call life is really death, not life. Life is what we were in the womb, and up to the age of two, not this. What we are experiencing now as life is really death, is the death of our direct connection to God and True Man within us, is the death of who we truly are, is the death of where we truly are, and is the death of what is truly happening in life. When we were born, about the age of two, we really died, about the age of two, our true life died, and what we have experienced since the age of two is an expanding spiritual death, until puberty, when the black snake swallowed us, where we now live, in the stomach of the black snake until our physical death, where all that we see, do, think and intend nourishes the black snake, not us, unless the black snake spits us out because it realizes it cannot digest us, like the whale spit out the Prophet Jonah (A.S.). And like Jonah (A.S.), we will only be saved from the stomach of the black snake, and a living death, if our true life is somehow re-awakened within us, if the wisdom surrounding our soul is awakened within us to do battle with the enemy of our soul, to do battle with the "us" of us that wants to live in the stomach of the black snake, that is willing to nourish the black snake in return for a life of separation and differences, for a life of illusion, desire, and pleasure, and which, in ignorance of the real nature of the bargain it have made, is willing to be eventually digested by the black snake, willing to live out its life in ignorance of itself in the stomach of the black snake. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, such is our fate that must be reasoned over by our wisdom, if we are to be victorious in our life. In this way, none of these things really matter, nothing that we do living in the stomach of the black snake matters, because its only value is keeping the black snake alive, not us, and when we have finished serving the black snake then it merely digests us, and all that we are and have done is gone, and all that we could have been, which is stored in our soul, goes back to the One who gave the soul to us, and we go the way of all things that are digested, only to come back as part of something else that is eventually digested in some other stomach. This is our fate, this is our karma, this is our destiny, they all mean the same thing, they are all the result of living a life in ignorance of ourselves, in ignorance of what God has given each of us, as our birthright, as our heritage, to become one with Him, to become the oneness of God and true Man. In truth it is very simple matter. We get what we deserve, what we truly want, because the justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we receive. But before our physical death, before we are finally digested by the black snake, we can change our mind, we can choose differently, we can turn back to God, from which we all came, we can turn away from everything other than God, which includes "us" as separate from God, "us" as separate from each other, and "us" as separate from the Creations of God, which includes "us" living a life of separation and differences in the stomach of the black snake that swallowed us. We can begin to reverse the process that started in the womb and ended with our birth into the world of illusion that we now see all around us, cutting away our life of silence, our life within the silence of God, ending again at the age of two, when we started to live here, to live in the state of "separation from", cutting away our life of purity, cutting away our life in the state of "oneness with", and finally ending again at puberty when we started to live in the stomach of the black snake, cutting away finally any wisdom we had, any direct connection to our Creator, transforming us into a false creator, into the false mother and false father of the false lives that now live within us, into the mother and father of darkness of the lives of darkness and shadows that have grown within us, that keep us separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the true creations of God. We can begin to reverse this process, just like an apple tree that has become the sturdy roots of a peach tree can be reclaimed, by gradually pruning back the branches of the peach tree that were grafted onto the original apple tree, that once grafted gradually took over the life of the apple tree, hiding the apple tree and any evidence of its previous existence, but once pruned back, will eventually allowing the apple tree to grow again, with no evidence of what was done to it, with no evidence of what had taken over its life, with no evidence of the peach tree that was grafted onto it, or of the peaches that grew on the peach tree. With God's help, we can do this work. It is certainly possible, if we set our intention upon it, if we set out with firm faith, certitude, and determination in God, in our Creator, and roll back our faith, certitude, and determination in anything else, in everything else. Then God will complete this seemingly impossible task for us, for us as one with Him. Because He can do it. God can do anything. In this way, we must destroy all that is not "of God" within us, all that God within us has rejected, all that is separate from God within us, we must destroy all that came out of our life of "separation from", a life that started at the age of two, when our life of "oneness with" ended. We must end all of it, all of who we currently are, all of what currently defines us, all of that currently defines us as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the creations of God within us, which includes all of our reflections of separation and differences, all aspects of our race and religion, our family, our friends, our knowing and understanding, our country, our school, our language, our relationships, and our experiences and accomplishment, as well as our hopes and dreams. Because none of this has anything to do with the truth of us, with the God of us, with what God does within us, which is to create, nourish, and sustain all of the lives in the 18,000 universes within us. So as long as our life is spent as the Selfish Self of us, focusing on our life as separate from all other lives, then the divine work of God within us cannot happen within us, which is our life spent as the Selfless Self of us, focusing on all of the lives living within us, in the 18,000 universes within us, making their life our life, making their happiness our happiness, making their sadness our sadness, making their struggle our struggle, making their failure and success our failure and success. But as long as we don't do this, as long as we stay Selfish, focused on ourselves and what we need, as separate from everything else, as long as we stay the center of our universe, as long as we stay the same, as long as we stay the peach tree bearing peaches, not allowing the original of us, not allowing the strong apple tree that is the original of us, to shine through, not allowing the apples of us to appear with their sweet taste, as long as we don't cut away what grew over the original of us, what was grafted onto the original of us at the age of two, as long as we don't cut away the peach tree of us, gradually working ourselves back to the original root of us, then nothing of our original will be seen, nothing of the oneness of God and True Man will be seen in our life, nothing will change in our life, until we eventually die in the stomach of the black snake, all for the sake of a short life of separation and differences in the dream life we see as existing "outside" of us, and having used up our life nourishing the black snake, we are finally digested by it. But instead, if we join with God to reveal the original of us, which is Adam (A.S.) of us, before the fall of Adam (A.S.), before the peach tree was grafted onto the apple tree, allowing Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the original strong roots of us, to recover, and this time allow the strong tree of us to appear, which is True Man within us, with no artificial grafts, and bear the fruits of the original of us, which are the qualities and actions of God within us, then we will be victorious in our life, then our wisdom will reason over our fate within us. Please think about this a little. In this way, in truth each of us is a great wonder, not simply a person with a Hindu, Christian, Islamic, or Jewish name, who was born a few years ago, and is now married with a few children, working as an accountant, or engineer, or doctor, or painter, or steel worker, or fireman, or policeman, or housewife, or school teacher, or business man or woman, or entrepreneur, living in America, or Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, the Balkans, Russia, Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, or anywhere else in the world, and age 2-12, 13-36, or 37-100. Because in truth none of these things define us. All of these things are about who we aren't, not who we are, unless we let the black snake give us a life of separation and differences, in return for nourishing it, allowing it to digest us in the end. The choice is truly ours, always ours, not God's. The fault is truly ours, always ours, not God's. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth, the truth within each of us that is always trying to emerge from within us, is always trying to capture our consciousness, and take over our life again, like it did in the womb and before the age of two, always trying to reclaim us as God's Property, not the property of the black snake. And this truth of us is never something that we merely read or hear about "outside" of us, or something that doesn't really have anything to do with us. This truth of us is us, more than anything else is us, and this truth of us is expanding, is in truth the expanding consciousness of God, because in truth, this is us more than anything else, we are the oneness of God and True Man happening, if we will but realize it, understand it, accept it, and join with it. It is just that simple. In this way, we must continually accept an expanding definition of who we are, while continually rejecting all previous definitions of who we are, by continually joining with God within us to let God finish what He has started within us, which is True Man happening within God within us, and continually joining with True Man within us to let True Man finish what He has started within us, which is God happening within True Man within us, realizing at all times that this journey is not a trip of understanding, though understanding does occur, it is a trip of becoming, of becoming what we aren't by rejecting what we currently are, realizing that within each thing we are is the seed of the next thing we will become, if we will but let go of what we are. And in this way, learning to let go of whatever comes, of handing it back to the one who handed it to us, saying, "Thanks, but no thanks, what's next.". Realizing that the understanding of today becomes the enemy of tomorrow. In this way, at each point of God happening within us, and of True Man happening within us, of the oneness of God and True Man happening within us, we must live it, embrace it, and never look back. This is the only way it can happen within any of us. We must realize this without the slightest doubt. For in truth we are the ultimate self fulfilling prophesy. So instead of being in the stomach of the black snake, instead of living an imaginary life in the dream that we see all around us, instead of nourishing these things by our life of separation and differences, we must realize that in truth we are buried within God, that in truth we have been buried by God within the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, and that this is the true "earth of us" that God has personally placed us in, for His purpose as one with us, not for our purpose as separate from God. This "earth of us" is in truth Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) becoming one again within us, re-establishing the true mother or earth of each of us, the true "earth of us" that we have been buried within by God, the "earth of us" just waiting to join with the "seed of us" that God has also personally placed within the "earth of us", to tell the story of True Man within the Creations of God within us. This story is just waiting for the true "earth of us" to happen again within us, in the same way that God first created the original "earth of us", by creating Adam (A.S.) in the state of "oneness with" within us, of Adam (A.S.) as one with Eve (A.S.) within us, not in our current state, of Adam (A.S.) in the state of "separation from" within us, of Adam (A.S.) separate from Eve (A.S.) within us. We must realize, that it is only this true "earth of us" that can germinate the true "seed of us", not anything else, and it is only our realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with this true "earth of us" that allows this true "earth of us" to join with the true "seed of us", allowing the true "tree of us" to be revealed within us. We must understand, without the slightest doubt, that God has buried us within this true "earth of us", within this state of Adam (A.S.) as "one with" within us, this state of Adam (A.S.) as one with Eve (A.S.) within us. We must realize that only this true "earth of us" can join as "one with" the true "seed of us", and germinate that seed, that seed of True Man within God within us, revealing True man within God within us, as the "tree of us", that seed of True Man within us which is the Light of Wisdom within us, the body of the soul within us, that seed of True Man within us which is absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, known in the Islamic tradition as Iman, that "seed of us" that God placed on the forehead of Adam (A.S.) as His Light to the world, when God created Adam (A.S.) as His earth, and placed us, as His Children, as His soul, His purity, within Adam (A.S.), within Adam (A.S.) as the palace of His soul. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is who we are, this is our birthright, this is our heritage, not the monkey, not some theory of evolution from a monkey. We are of God, we are of the light of God, to become the Light of God to the world, to guide them out of their darkness, out of the dream of self existence separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from all of the creations of God, in the 18,000 universes within us. And all of this is just waiting to happen within us, within each of us, if we will only join with it, if we will only let go, if we will only let go of all that we currently are, of all that currently falsely defines us, if we will only become peaceful about our own ending, rather than fear our ending or deny it or do all that we can to keep it out of our consciousness, if we will only let ourselves end in the telling of this beautiful story of True Man happening within God within us, as the apple seed ends in the telling of the story of the apple tree within it, as the apple seed joins with the earth to end the apple seed, to destroy the apple seed, and reveal the apple tree hidden within it. May we all place our faith and trust in God, and only in God, and step out in this direction, saying to God, "O God, it is all Your will." And God will do everything else. Guaranteed. Because that is what God does. Within everything that God creates He then sets about revealing Himself within it by first revealing True Man within it, by first revealing True Man within His Creation, and then, True Man in turn reveals God within True Man. This is how it all works. God revealing God within God by first revealing True Man within God, and True Man revealing True Man within True Man by first revealing God within True Man, and in this way they are one, God and True Man are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other. This is also the work of the apple seed and the apple tree. The apple seed reveals the apple seed within it by first revealing the apple tree within it, and the apple tree reveals the apple tree within it by first revealing the apple seed within it. And in this way the apple seed and the apple tree are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other. And this is how and why God created each of us, to reveal God within God, by first revealing True Man within God, and God naturally does this within each of us by joining the true "Seed of God" within us, with Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.)joined as one within us, as the true "Earth of God" within us, to reveal True Man within the Creations of God within us, which is the "Tree of God" within the "Earth of God" within us, and then by joining with True Man within us to reveal God within True Man, which are the "Fruits of God's Tree", and finally through all of this to reveal the oneness of God and True Man within us as the "Sweet Taste of The Fruits of God's Tree" within us, and hidden within the "Fruits of God's Tree" are again the "Seeds of God's Tree", ready to be buried again in "His Earth", and so it goes. And the first act in this story of True Man within the Creations of God within us, is the story of Adam (A.S.) within Eve (AS.), and of Eve (A.S.) within Adam (A.S.), of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) becoming one again within us, the story of the dream of us, this dream of "separation from" ending within us, revealing the truth of God within us, the truth of "oneness with" within it, the truth of "oneness with" both secretly hidden by God within us, and then secretly revealed by God within us, within the dream of "separation from" within us. And in this way, ending this dream of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) as separate within us, and revealing the reality of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) as "one with" within us, as the true "earth of us" within us, which contains the true "seed of us" within us, which is the seed of True Man, the seed of Iman within us, the seed of absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God within us, causing the true "seed of us" to appear within us, causing the seed of True Man within us to germinate, revealing the Tree of True Man within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, all of this is just waiting to happen within each of us. The choice is ours. And if we make this choice, saying "no" to ourselves as separate from God, saying "no" to ourselves as separate from each other, and saying "no" to ourselves as separate from the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, then Eve (A.S.) again becomes one with Adam (A.S.) within us, Eve (A.S.) comes to maturity within us as all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, which in maturity are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, which are the number of times God looked at the impure souls within Him transforming them into the Creations of God, and Adam (A.S.) becomes one with Eve (A.S.) within us, Adam (A.S.) comes to maturity within us as the purified "earth of us", the purified heart of a True Man happening within God within us, wearing the crown of the 124,000 Prophets of God, which is Eve (A.S.) in maturity within us, and Adam (A.S.)in maturity as the first heaven within us, with Adam (A.S.) having become one again with his own rib, with Adam (A.S.) having recovered from the spit of satan, which initially weakened him, causing his eventual fall from grace, causing him to be cast into hell, along with satan. And we must join with God within us to do this divine work, realizing that in truth the spit of satan is the sperm or discharge of man in ignorance of himself, having lost his true self to his false self, having lost his "selfless self" to his "selfish self", all happening in the dream of his self existence separate from God, and separate from all that God is one with, endlessly trying to perpetuate his dream of self existence by joining as one with Eve (A.S.) in his dream, in his dream as one while in truth as separate, as Adam (A.S.)separate from Eve(A.S.). And realizing that the eventual fall of Adam (A.S.) into hell is in truth Adam (A.S.) living a life separate from Himself, separate from the oneness of God and True Man, is Adam (A.S.) having forgotten God, having forgotten the oneness of God and True Man, which in truth is God, of Adam (A.S.) separate from the original state of Adam (A.S.) which is the oneness of God and True Man. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is what we must do, but to do this we must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth that will allow this to happen within us, by affirming that truth in all that we do, in all that we say, in all that we think and intend, by affirming the truth of the oneness of God and True Man within us, the truth that there is nothing other than God, the truth that God is oneness, the truth that the oneness of True Man and God is what God is. And in this way, affirming the truth that only this is God, that only this "oneness with" is God, affirming that God is not separate from man, nor is man separate from God, and neither of them are separate from the Creations of God. Affirming the truth that all of this is God, that this is what God is, God is the oneness of God, True Man, and the Creations of God. And affirming the truth that God is indivisible, that we cannot separate God into pieced, into God, True Man, and the Creations of God. And affirming the truth that this Trinity is One, and that the form of this One, how this One is seen and experience, is this Trinity, that this One is always these three reflection of the One, and that this One is always seen and experienced through these Three, and that only when these Three are seen and understood, by becoming the Three, by become one with these Three, allowing these Three to become One, and only then, by becoming the One of the Three, that the One of the Three is seen and understood. Realizing that this is the True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship, the Three of the One; God, the True Shaikh, and the True Disciple. And that this is how the Three become One, when God, the True Shaikh, and the True Disciple become One. And in this way, the Three are a Messenger of the One, and when one comes to reflect the Three of the One, one becomes a True Man, one becomes the Messenger of the One, the Messenger of God. This truth is affirmed in all of the religions and came as part of the teaching of each of the 124,000 Prophets of God, including the teaching of the 8 main Prophets of God, Adam (may the blessings of God be upon Him - abbreviated in the Islamic tradition, A.S.), Noah (A.S.), Abraham (A.S.), Ishmeal (A.S.), Moses (A.S.), David (A.S.), Jesus (A.S.), and Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him - abbreviated in the Islamic tradition, Sal.). Finally, in the Islamic tradition this truth is affirmed as the First Kalimah, or First Remembrance of the Truth of God, sent down to the Prophet Muhammad (Sal.), and is recited in Arabic as; "La ilaha Ill Allahu, Muhammadar Rasulullah, and can be translated into English as; "There is nothing other than God, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", that we are living a lie, a falsehood, that we are living the lie of separation and differences, that we are living the falsehood that we are separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from all of the Creations of God, while all the while in truth we are one with God, one with each other, and one with all of the creations of God. And we perpetually veil this truth of ourselves, of all selves, from ourselves, from all selves, by systematically growing within us, moving into, and eventually becoming one with, and end up defending with all of our energies, a dream life of "separation from", all the time hiding within us our true life of "oneness with". What a problem we have built for ourselves, what a struggle within ourselves, to maintain this, to keep this lie going on the "outside" of us while the truth of us is always within us, trying to get our attention, trying to emerge from within us, in everything that we do. This is the enemy of our life, of all life, our false self on the "outside" of us battling with our true self hidden inside of us, trying to keep it from emerging, because if we begin to join the inside truth of us, the outside falsehood of us will be destroy, because our ally on the inside is God, is the oneness of God, True Man, and the Creations of God, is the wisdom or consciousness of a direct connection to the life and teaching of God within us, is the Power of God, is the Light of God, and are the Qualities and Actions of God, and our allies on the outside are illusion, arrogance, ignorance, fascination, darkness, fear, desire, pleasure, agitation, disorganization, and bewilderment, which are no match for God. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the Holy War of our life, of all life. And in the Islamic tradition, this is the true meaning of Jihad or Holy War. Please reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom coming from my heart to your heart, for in truth wisdom is a message in a clear heart. And as always, what was said to this child at the age of 36, this child now at the age of 63 says to each of my dearest loving brothers and sisters, who have started to walk this path with me, as me, and with me as them, my love you. For in truth we are one, there is only one, there is only "The One". End of This Spiritual Letter .............................................. |
The Great Difficulty of Our Life Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) on November 16, 2001 Wisdom Point: The Great Difficulty In Our Life Is The Life of "Separation From" Within Us That Is Hiding The Life of "Oneness With" Within Us Selection: Spiritual Letter 5 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Outline For This Web Page 3. Rest of Document - without an outline The Life of Deception Within Us - back to outline My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the great difficulty of our life, this "Life of Deception" that we have allowed to grow within us, that we, in our ignorance of ourselves, have allowed to grow over us, to obscure the truth of us, like clouds appearing on the earth obscure the light of the moon and even the light of the sun, thereby preventing all of the lives living on the earth benefiting from that light. This is the real problem in our life. This is what makes our life hard. Keeping the lie of us going is what makes our life hard and difficult. Anyone who has ever tried to keep a lie going knows this, how hard it is to keep a falsehood going, while truth is very easy to maintain. It takes very little effort to tell the truth, because it is natural to us, because it is the reality of us, but a lie is very hard to tell and maintain, at least initially, because it is unnatural to us, to the reality of us, to the original nature of us, to the "us" of us that God personally placed within us. This falsehood of us is always hiding the truth of us, always keeping the truth of us buried deep within the falsehood of us. This is who we have become. This is where we now live. This is what is now happening in our life. This "Life of Deception" within us, this falsehood of us is what we have become, and is what we are constantly nourishing and maintaining by our life of deception, by our life in the world that we see as existing "outside" of us. This is who we have become in ignorance of who we are, of where we are, and of what is happening in life. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth about us, about all of us, without the slightest doubt, if we are ever to be victorious in our life, if our wisdom is to reason over our fate. In this way, we must realize with our wisdom that this life of falsehood within us, this "Life of Deception" within us, has secretly grown within each of us, and has very gradually taken over our original life. And through our wisdom we must come to know, understand, and discard, our "Life of Deception", by coming to know, understand, and embrace our "Life of Truth", the life of God within us that is just waiting to emerge from within us, as an apple tree is always just waiting to emerge from within an apple seed buried in the earth, just waiting for the apple seed to realize the truth about itself, and having realized, understood, accepted, and joined with that truth, to join with the earth and germinate, to join with the earth to tell the story of the apple tree hidden within it, the story which in completion is the apple tree in maturity. Shifting What We Believe In Our LIfe From "Outside" To "Inside" My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is what we must start to believe in, not in what we have become, not in where we now think we are, not in what we think is happening in our life and in the lives that we see around us. This is what we must do in our life, what all of us must do in our life, if we are ever to become victorious in our life, we must completely stop what we are currently doing in our life, which is but a reflection of what we currently believe in our life, which is all false, and in each moment of our life, hand all of this falsehood away, hand all of this falsehood back to the One who created this falsehood and handed it to us, so we can hand it back to Him, rejecting it as who we are and accepting Him as who we are, so He can harvest it, so He can reveal Himself as True Man within His Creation, as God within True Man, as True Man within God, as the oneness of God and True Man. This is how we will be victorious in our life, by saying "no" to "free will", and "yes" to "Your will", by saying "no" to "our will be done", and "yes" to "Your will be done", by saying "no" to us, and "yes" to God, by saying "no" to us as separate from God, and "yes" to us as the oneness of God and True Man, which God will automatically reveal within us, when we get our "no's" and "yes's" correct. This is how we will be victorious in our life, by saying "no" to us as separate from God, or separate from our brothers and sisters, or separate from any of the creations of God, and "yes" to the oneness of us and God, which is our "treeness", and "yes" to the oneness of us and all of our brothers and sisters, which is our "seedness", and "yes" to the oneness of us and all of the creations of God, which is our "earthness". Rest of Document - back to outline This is what we must do, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if we are to be victorious in our life, if we are to overcome the "Great Difficulty of Our Life", which is so very large that we cannot even see it, most of the time, which is so very big that we do not even know it exists, most of the time, until it is to late. Only God can deal with "our problem", because in truth it is not "our problem", it is "His Problem", it is what has happened to Him, not to us, because in truth we do not exist, it is God who exists not us, and we only exist within His existence within us, and what we are currently experiencing as our own life, is only happening because it is how God awakens Himself to the reality of Himself within Himself within us, if we want it, if we want Him over us, if we love Him over loving ourselves, if we want the true reality of us which is the oneness of God and True Man within us, instead of the false reality of us which is us as separate from God within us, if we will but join with Him within us to reveal Him within Him within us, and destroy us as separate from Him within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, we need to think about this truth a little. For example, does an apple seed really exist as separate from the apple tree and the apple that it came from, or from the earth that it is buried within, or from the apple tree and the apples that are hidden within it? Of course not! The apple seed only exists because the apple tree and its apples exist, because the earth that the apple tree is buried in exists, and because it was created to tell the story of the apple tree buried in the earth, by joining with the earth to tell this story, to tell this story by germinating, once it awakens within the earth to the truth of itself, to the truth of itself that naturally emerges from within it, when it is ready to hear it, once it realize, understands, accepts, and joins with the truth that it is an apple seed, that it is buried in the earth, and that the earth contains everything necessary for the apple tree within it to grow. And in a similar way, neither do we, neither do we exist as separate from our Creator, from God and from the "fruits of God" that we have come from, or from the "earth of us" that we are currently buried within, or from the "seed of us" that is buried within us, that is the truth of us just waiting to germinate, and reveal the "tree of us", or from the "tree of us" or from the "fruits of us" that are hidden within the "seed of us", just waiting to be revealed. Of course not! And yet, we are living as if we are separate from all of these things, and as long as we maintain our separation from them, than like the apple seed that never germinates, that stays in ignorance of itself, buried in the earth but separate from it, we will never germinate and reveal the truth of us, we will never reveal our oneness with God, with True Man, and with the Creations of God within us, we will never join with God, with the oneness of God and True Man, to reveal the oneness of God and True Man within us. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that this truth of us is our heritage, is our birthright, is what we will naturally, effortlessly become, as God created us to be, if we will but let it happen, if we will but let go of what we have falsely become in ignorance of ourselves, of what currently and falsely defines us, of what falsely tells us who we are, where we are, and what is happening in life, in all life. Like the apple seed that fails to germinate, this life of ours, this current life of ours, this falsehood of us, keeps us buried in the "earth of us" but separate from it, keeps us in ignorance of our true self, keeps us separate from all that the "earth of us" is in truth one with, which is the "seed of us", and the "tree of us", keeps us in ignorance of ourselves, and will continue to be our life, our life of falsehood, until we eventually die in the "earth of us", rot in the "earth of us", and are eventually absorbed into the "earth of us", finally becoming one with the "earth of us" but still in ignorance of it and of who we are, for eternity, forever breaking our direct connection with God and with all that God is one with, transforming our personal or private heaven into God's public hell. This is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", our ignorance of who we are, of what we have become, of what we have let happen to us, of what we have done and have not done with what we were given by God, and of the fate we will most certainly suffer because of our failure to allow the wisdom within us to awaken, the wisdom or consciousness of the oneness of God and True Man that naturally surrounds our soul, but remains dormant within us until it is awakened by the words of God, like we are sharing now. This is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", not who we marry, or where we live, or how much money we make, or what schools we have attended, or how successful we have been, or how successful our children have been, or anything like that, and not even whether we live or die, because in truth we are already dead, we just don't know it yet, because what we call life is really death, not life. Life is what we were in the womb, and up to the age of two, not this. What we are experiencing now as life is really death, is the death of our direct connection to God and True Man within us, is the death of who we truly are, is the death of where we truly are, and is the death of what is truly happening in life. When we were born, about the age of two, we really died, about the age of two, our true life died, and what we have experienced since the age of two is an expanding spiritual death, until puberty, when the black snake swallowed us, where we now live, in the stomach of the black snake until our physical death, where all that we see, do, think and intend nourishes the black snake, not us, unless the black snake spits us out because it realizes it cannot digest us, like the whale spit out the Prophet Jonah (A.S.). And like Jonah (A.S.), we will only be saved from the stomach of the black snake, and a living death, if our true life is somehow re-awakened within us, if the wisdom surrounding our soul is awakened within us to do battle with the enemy of our soul, to do battle with the "us" of us that wants to live in the stomach of the black snake, that is willing to nourish the black snake in return for a life of separation and differences, for a life of illusion, desire, and pleasure, and which, in ignorance of the real nature of the bargain it have made, is willing to be eventually digested by the black snake, willing to live out its life in ignorance of itself in the stomach of the black snake. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, such is our fate that must be reasoned over by our wisdom, if we are to be victorious in our life. In this way, none of these things really matter, nothing that we do living in the stomach of the black snake matters, because its only value is keeping the black snake alive, not us, and when we have finished serving the black snake then it merely digests us, and all that we are and have done is gone, and all that we could have been, which is stored in our soul, goes back to the One who gave the soul to us, and we go the way of all things that are digested, only to come back as part of something else that is eventually digested in some other stomach. This is our fate, this is our karma, this is our destiny, they all mean the same thing, they are all the result of living a life in ignorance of ourselves, in ignorance of what God has given each of us, as our birthright, as our heritage, to become one with Him, to become the oneness of God and true Man. In truth it is very simple matter. We get what we deserve, what we truly want, because the justice of God is that whatever we intend is what we receive. But before our physical death, before we are finally digested by the black snake, we can change our mind, we can choose differently, we can turn back to God, from which we all came, we can turn away from everything other than God, which includes "us" as separate from God, "us" as separate from each other, and "us" as separate from the Creations of God, which includes "us" living a life of separation and differences in the stomach of the black snake that swallowed us. We can begin to reverse the process that started in the womb and ended with our birth into the world of illusion that we now see all around us, cutting away our life of silence, our life within the silence of God, ending again at the age of two, when we started to live here, to live in the state of "separation from", cutting away our life of purity, cutting away our life in the state of "oneness with", and finally ending again at puberty when we started to live in the stomach of the black snake, cutting away finally any wisdom we had, any direct connection to our Creator, transforming us into a false creator, into the false mother and false father of the false lives that now live within us, into the mother and father of darkness of the lives of darkness and shadows that have grown within us, that keep us separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the true creations of God. We can begin to reverse this process, just like an apple tree that has become the sturdy roots of a peach tree can be reclaimed, by gradually pruning back the branches of the peach tree that were grafted onto the original apple tree, that once grafted gradually took over the life of the apple tree, hiding the apple tree and any evidence of its previous existence, but once pruned back, will eventually allowing the apple tree to grow again, with no evidence of what was done to it, with no evidence of what had taken over its life, with no evidence of the peach tree that was grafted onto it, or of the peaches that grew on the peach tree. With God's help, we can do this work. It is certainly possible, if we set our intention upon it, if we set out with firm faith, certitude, and determination in God, in our Creator, and roll back our faith, certitude, and determination in anything else, in everything else. Then God will complete this seemingly impossible task for us, for us as one with Him. Because He can do it. God can do anything. In this way, we must destroy all that is not "of God" within us, all that God within us has rejected, all that is separate from God within us, we must destroy all that came out of our life of "separation from", a life that started at the age of two, when our life of "oneness with" ended. We must end all of it, all of who we currently are, all of what currently defines us, all of that currently defines us as separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the creations of God within us, which includes all of our reflections of separation and differences, all aspects of our race and religion, our family, our friends, our knowing and understanding, our country, our school, our language, our relationships, and our experiences and accomplishment, as well as our hopes and dreams. Because none of this has anything to do with the truth of us, with the God of us, with what God does within us, which is to create, nourish, and sustain all of the lives in the 18,000 universes within us. So as long as our life is spent as the Selfish Self of us, focusing on our life as separate from all other lives, then the divine work of God within us cannot happen within us, which is our life spent as the Selfless Self of us, focusing on all of the lives living within us, in the 18,000 universes within us, making their life our life, making their happiness our happiness, making their sadness our sadness, making their struggle our struggle, making their failure and success our failure and success. But as long as we don't do this, as long as we stay Selfish, focused on ourselves and what we need, as separate from everything else, as long as we stay the center of our universe, as long as we stay the same, as long as we stay the peach tree bearing peaches, not allowing the original of us, not allowing the strong apple tree that is the original of us, to shine through, not allowing the apples of us to appear with their sweet taste, as long as we don't cut away what grew over the original of us, what was grafted onto the original of us at the age of two, as long as we don't cut away the peach tree of us, gradually working ourselves back to the original root of us, then nothing of our original will be seen, nothing of the oneness of God and True Man will be seen in our life, nothing will change in our life, until we eventually die in the stomach of the black snake, all for the sake of a short life of separation and differences in the dream life we see as existing "outside" of us, and having used up our life nourishing the black snake, we are finally digested by it. But instead, if we join with God to reveal the original of us, which is Adam (A.S.) of us, before the fall of Adam (A.S.), before the peach tree was grafted onto the apple tree, allowing Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the original strong roots of us, to recover, and this time allow the strong tree of us to appear, which is True Man within us, with no artificial grafts, and bear the fruits of the original of us, which are the qualities and actions of God within us, then we will be victorious in our life, then our wisdom will reason over our fate within us. Please think about this a little. In this way, in truth each of us is a great wonder, not simply a person with a Hindu, Christian, Islamic, or Jewish name, who was born a few years ago, and is now married with a few children, working as an accountant, or engineer, or doctor, or painter, or steel worker, or fireman, or policeman, or housewife, or school teacher, or business man or woman, or entrepreneur, living in America, or Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, the Balkans, Russia, Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, or anywhere else in the world, and age 2-12, 13-36, or 37-100. Because in truth none of these things define us. All of these things are about who we aren't, not who we are, unless we let the black snake give us a life of separation and differences, in return for nourishing it, allowing it to digest us in the end. The choice is truly ours, always ours, not God's. The fault is truly ours, always ours, not God's. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth, the truth within each of us that is always trying to emerge from within us, is always trying to capture our consciousness, and take over our life again, like it did in the womb and before the age of two, always trying to reclaim us as God's Property, not the property of the black snake. And this truth of us is never something that we merely read or hear about "outside" of us, or something that doesn't really have anything to do with us. This truth of us is us, more than anything else is us, and this truth of us is expanding, is in truth the expanding consciousness of God, because in truth, this is us more than anything else, we are the oneness of God and True Man happening, if we will but realize it, understand it, accept it, and join with it. It is just that simple. In this way, we must continually accept an expanding definition of who we are, while continually rejecting all previous definitions of who we are, by continually joining with God within us to let God finish what He has started within us, which is True Man happening within God within us, and continually joining with True Man within us to let True Man finish what He has started within us, which is God happening within True Man within us, realizing at all times that this journey is not a trip of understanding, though understanding does occur, it is a trip of becoming, of becoming what we aren't by rejecting what we currently are, realizing that within each thing we are is the seed of the next thing we will become, if we will but let go of what we are. And in this way, learning to let go of whatever comes, of handing it back to the one who handed it to us, saying, "Thanks, but no thanks, what's next.". Realizing that the understanding of today becomes the enemy of tomorrow. In this way, at each point of God happening within us, and of True Man happening within us, of the oneness of God and True Man happening within us, we must live it, embrace it, and never look back. This is the only way it can happen within any of us. We must realize this without the slightest doubt. For in truth we are the ultimate self fulfilling prophesy. So instead of being in the stomach of the black snake, instead of living an imaginary life in the dream that we see all around us, instead of nourishing these things by our life of separation and differences, we must realize that in truth we are buried within God, that in truth we have been buried by God within the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, and that this is the true "earth of us" that God has personally placed us in, for His purpose as one with us, not for our purpose as separate from God. This "earth of us" is in truth Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) becoming one again within us, re-establishing the true mother or earth of each of us, the true "earth of us" that we have been buried within by God, the "earth of us" just waiting to join with the "seed of us" that God has also personally placed within the "earth of us", to tell the story of True Man within the Creations of God within us. This story is just waiting for the true "earth of us" to happen again within us, in the same way that God first created the original "earth of us", by creating Adam (A.S.) in the state of "oneness with" within us, of Adam (A.S.) as one with Eve (A.S.) within us, not in our current state, of Adam (A.S.) in the state of "separation from" within us, of Adam (A.S.) separate from Eve (A.S.) within us. We must realize, that it is only this true "earth of us" that can germinate the true "seed of us", not anything else, and it is only our realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with this true "earth of us" that allows this true "earth of us" to join with the true "seed of us", allowing the true "tree of us" to be revealed within us. We must understand, without the slightest doubt, that God has buried us within this true "earth of us", within this state of Adam (A.S.) as "one with" within us, this state of Adam (A.S.) as one with Eve (A.S.) within us. We must realize that only this true "earth of us" can join as "one with" the true "seed of us", and germinate that seed, that seed of True Man within God within us, revealing True man within God within us, as the "tree of us", that seed of True Man within us which is the Light of Wisdom within us, the body of the soul within us, that seed of True Man within us which is absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, known in the Islamic tradition as Iman, that "seed of us" that God placed on the forehead of Adam (A.S.) as His Light to the world, when God created Adam (A.S.) as His earth, and placed us, as His Children, as His soul, His purity, within Adam (A.S.), within Adam (A.S.) as the palace of His soul. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is who we are, this is our birthright, this is our heritage, not the monkey, not some theory of evolution from a monkey. We are of God, we are of the light of God, to become the Light of God to the world, to guide them out of their darkness, out of the dream of self existence separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from all of the creations of God, in the 18,000 universes within us. And all of this is just waiting to happen within us, within each of us, if we will only join with it, if we will only let go, if we will only let go of all that we currently are, of all that currently falsely defines us, if we will only become peaceful about our own ending, rather than fear our ending or deny it or do all that we can to keep it out of our consciousness, if we will only let ourselves end in the telling of this beautiful story of True Man happening within God within us, as the apple seed ends in the telling of the story of the apple tree within it, as the apple seed joins with the earth to end the apple seed, to destroy the apple seed, and reveal the apple tree hidden within it. May we all place our faith and trust in God, and only in God, and step out in this direction, saying to God, "O God, it is all Your will." And God will do everything else. Guaranteed. Because that is what God does. Within everything that God creates He then sets about revealing Himself within it by first revealing True Man within it, by first revealing True Man within His Creation, and then, True Man in turn reveals God within True Man. This is how it all works. God revealing God within God by first revealing True Man within God, and True Man revealing True Man within True Man by first revealing God within True Man, and in this way they are one, God and True Man are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other. This is also the work of the apple seed and the apple tree. The apple seed reveals the apple seed within it by first revealing the apple tree within it, and the apple tree reveals the apple tree within it by first revealing the apple seed within it. And in this way the apple seed and the apple tree are one, one within the other as one, one revealing the other within it, one hiding itself in the other as one reveals the other. And this is how and why God created each of us, to reveal God within God, by first revealing True Man within God, and God naturally does this within each of us by joining the true "Seed of God" within us, with Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.)joined as one within us, as the true "Earth of God" within us, to reveal True Man within the Creations of God within us, which is the "Tree of God" within the "Earth of God" within us, and then by joining with True Man within us to reveal God within True Man, which are the "Fruits of God's Tree", and finally through all of this to reveal the oneness of God and True Man within us as the "Sweet Taste of The Fruits of God's Tree" within us, and hidden within the "Fruits of God's Tree" are again the "Seeds of God's Tree", ready to be buried again in "His Earth", and so it goes. And the first act in this story of True Man within the Creations of God within us, is the story of Adam (A.S.) within Eve (AS.), and of Eve (A.S.) within Adam (A.S.), of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) becoming one again within us, the story of the dream of us, this dream of "separation from" ending within us, revealing the truth of God within us, the truth of "oneness with" within it, the truth of "oneness with" both secretly hidden by God within us, and then secretly revealed by God within us, within the dream of "separation from" within us. And in this way, ending this dream of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) as separate within us, and revealing the reality of Adam (A.S.) and Eve (A.S.) as "one with" within us, as the true "earth of us" within us, which contains the true "seed of us" within us, which is the seed of True Man, the seed of Iman within us, the seed of absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God within us, causing the true "seed of us" to appear within us, causing the seed of True Man within us to germinate, revealing the Tree of True Man within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, all of this is just waiting to happen within each of us. The choice is ours. And if we make this choice, saying "no" to ourselves as separate from God, saying "no" to ourselves as separate from each other, and saying "no" to ourselves as separate from the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, then Eve (A.S.) again becomes one with Adam (A.S.) within us, Eve (A.S.) comes to maturity within us as all of the Creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, which in maturity are the 124,000 Prophets of God within us, which are the number of times God looked at the impure souls within Him transforming them into the Creations of God, and Adam (A.S.) becomes one with Eve (A.S.) within us, Adam (A.S.) comes to maturity within us as the purified "earth of us", the purified heart of a True Man happening within God within us, wearing the crown of the 124,000 Prophets of God, which is Eve (A.S.) in maturity within us, and Adam (A.S.)in maturity as the first heaven within us, with Adam (A.S.) having become one again with his own rib, with Adam (A.S.) having recovered from the spit of satan, which initially weakened him, causing his eventual fall from grace, causing him to be cast into hell, along with satan. And we must join with God within us to do this divine work, realizing that in truth the spit of satan is the sperm or discharge of man in ignorance of himself, having lost his true self to his false self, having lost his "selfless self" to his "selfish self", all happening in the dream of his self existence separate from God, and separate from all that God is one with, endlessly trying to perpetuate his dream of self existence by joining as one with Eve (A.S.) in his dream, in his dream as one while in truth as separate, as Adam (A.S.)separate from Eve(A.S.). And realizing that the eventual fall of Adam (A.S.) into hell is in truth Adam (A.S.) living a life separate from Himself, separate from the oneness of God and True Man, is Adam (A.S.) having forgotten God, having forgotten the oneness of God and True Man, which in truth is God, of Adam (A.S.) separate from the original state of Adam (A.S.) which is the oneness of God and True Man. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is what we must do, but to do this we must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth that will allow this to happen within us, by affirming that truth in all that we do, in all that we say, in all that we think and intend, by affirming the truth of the oneness of God and True Man within us, the truth that there is nothing other than God, the truth that God is oneness, the truth that the oneness of True Man and God is what God is. And in this way, affirming the truth that only this is God, that only this "oneness with" is God, affirming that God is not separate from man, nor is man separate from God, and neither of them are separate from the Creations of God. Affirming the truth that all of this is God, that this is what God is, God is the oneness of God, True Man, and the Creations of God. And affirming the truth that God is indivisible, that we cannot separate God into pieced, into God, True Man, and the Creations of God. And affirming the truth that this Trinity is One, and that the form of this One, how this One is seen and experience, is this Trinity, that this One is always these three reflection of the One, and that this One is always seen and experienced through these Three, and that only when these Three are seen and understood, by becoming the Three, by become one with these Three, allowing these Three to become One, and only then, by becoming the One of the Three, that the One of the Three is seen and understood. Realizing that this is the True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship, the Three of the One; God, the True Shaikh, and the True Disciple. And that this is how the Three become One, when God, the True Shaikh, and the True Disciple become One. And in this way, the Three are a Messenger of the One, and when one comes to reflect the Three of the One, one becomes a True Man, one becomes the Messenger of the One, the Messenger of God. This truth is affirmed in all of the religions and came as part of the teaching of each of the 124,000 Prophets of God, including the teaching of the 8 main Prophets of God, Adam (may the blessings of God be upon Him - abbreviated in the Islamic tradition, A.S.), Noah (A.S.), Abraham (A.S.), Ishmeal (A.S.), Moses (A.S.), David (A.S.), Jesus (A.S.), and Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon Him - abbreviated in the Islamic tradition, Sal.). Finally, in the Islamic tradition this truth is affirmed as the First Kalimah, or First Remembrance of the Truth of God, sent down to the Prophet Muhammad (Sal.), and is recited in Arabic as; "La ilaha Ill Allahu, Muhammadar Rasulullah, and can be translated into English as; "There is nothing other than God, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is "The Great Difficulty of Our Life", that we are living a lie, a falsehood, that we are living the lie of separation and differences, that we are living the falsehood that we are separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from all of the Creations of God, while all the while in truth we are one with God, one with each other, and one with all of the creations of God. And we perpetually veil this truth of ourselves, of all selves, from ourselves, from all selves, by systematically growing within us, moving into, and eventually becoming one with, and end up defending with all of our energies, a dream life of "separation from", all the time hiding within us our true life of "oneness with". What a problem we have built for ourselves, what a struggle within ourselves, to maintain this, to keep this lie going on the "outside" of us while the truth of us is always within us, trying to get our attention, trying to emerge from within us, in everything that we do. This is the enemy of our life, of all life, our false self on the "outside" of us battling with our true self hidden inside of us, trying to keep it from emerging, because if we begin to join the inside truth of us, the outside falsehood of us will be destroy, because our ally on the inside is God, is the oneness of God, True Man, and the Creations of God, is the wisdom or consciousness of a direct connection to the life and teaching of God within us, is the Power of God, is the Light of God, and are the Qualities and Actions of God, and our allies on the outside are illusion, arrogance, ignorance, fascination, darkness, fear, desire, pleasure, agitation, disorganization, and bewilderment, which are no match for God. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the Holy War of our life, of all life. And in the Islamic tradition, this is the true meaning of Jihad or Holy War. Please reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom coming from my heart to your heart, for in truth wisdom is a message in a clear heart. And as always, what was said to this child at the age of 36, this child now at the age of 63 says to each of my dearest loving brothers and sisters, who have started to walk this path with me, as me, and with me as them, my love you. For in truth we are one, there is only one, there is only "The One". End of This Spiritual Letter .............................................. |
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