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Christianity tells of the virgin birth of Jesus as being a physical fact, which it was not. From what I have read the idea of the virgin birth was not even in the original teachings but added later. There is a deeper meaning to the term that few in the church have known or most likely understood.
According to a religious scholar I once read, in pre-Christian times, the virgin birth was in reference to real awakening. It was to point to the fact that nothing one has learned, nothing that this world of dualistic thinking has to offer, could be the cause of that state of understanding that comes with real awakening, Enlightenment. We think that by all of our meditations, beliefs, concepts, etc., we will awaken. However, when one does awaken you find a totally different reality than any of your previous thinking, experiencing, or believing, could have shown you.
Awakening is direct seeing. Yet, to even say that is misleading to the mind that has not seen it for itself. Nothing I can say can convey what it truly is. It is a total mystery to the thinking mind. We can talk about Oneness, Suchness, Beingness, etc., but those are just words. They create an idea, image, in the mind and we want it. But we really don't want reality, because we do not have a clue of what it is.
After awakening, we see the true meaning of such terms, but we also see how impossible it is to express the experience itself. No amount of words can help one see the real. So, what can we do to help others see the truth directly? The only way I know is to point to what it is not. Pointing out the way the mind distorts and misleads us, helps us to see the traps we could get into if we didn't understand that process. When we see that concepts and beliefs have nothing to do with reality, then the mind can be brought to a stand still to those who look deeply into this process. When the mind can no longer play its games, the mind becomes transparent. Another ability awakens, it is wisdom. When the mind sees its own traps and can no longer process information through the cloud of ego dreams, it is wide open to awakening. Wisdom is direct seeing of the truth. The conditioned mind can never see the truth. It will always only see what it is conditioned to see, which is ego.
Wisdom is another term for Love, for Life, for Being, for creativity, and for Enlightenment. We don't come to Enlightenment by way of thinking. However, we come to clarity by thinking, observation, and experiencing silence. Then the door is open to Enlightenment. We cannot go through that door by any action on the part of the mind or ego. In time, which may be very short for some and much longer for others, the intuitive wisdom will overtake any action on the part of ego and one finds oneself free. That freedom is here right this moment. It is your being right now. You will not turn into something you are not now. You will see a change in perspective, as shift of perception that will reveal the ever-present fact of Being, of Life.
Then you will understand the real meaning of the Virgin Birth. You will be completely renewed, a new Being. This is ego death, the only death you will ever know.
Melvyn Wartella |
