Blaming the Devil

In a world of increasing violence, it’s easy to get caught up in blaming.

There are two points of view which need to be seen simultaneously – conventional reality and ultimate reality. Conventional reality is what we assume reality to be – our accumulated intellect. Ultimate reality is the awareness of the assumption we are making – our intelligence.

The aspect of ultimate reality is to acknowledge mistaken view: it not an excuse not to blame, but rather, it acknowledges causes and conditions. In conventional reality we become part of the blaming machinery. Blame separates and divides. It’s meant to!

Blame diverts consciousness away from ultimate reality, to becoming involved in a conventional made-up reality – a belief system. This makes us feel righteous – but only for a moment, before the retaliation comes back at us, and off we go again.

This is the Devil’s ping-pong, and it does pong! It separates us from one another, and separates us from recognising our true nature. This is exactly what demon activity is. But there is another aspect to demon activity: the path of liberation.

Seeing police brutality on the news, one cannot help but feel sick. Excessive force is being used to create unnecessary suffering, and this is being allowing and justified by higher authorities. It is authorised torture, or even murder. But who do you blame?

That is the key. We are coerced into blaming and reacting – the devil’s ping-pong again. The world is obviously being manipulated (and has always been so) in favour of certain groups. They need people to be divided in order to create tensions, and keep us distracted and ready to obey. Just look at the news, and the sides we take. To the manipulators it doesn’t matter who wins, as they will make their sales. Just ask hedge fund managers! Actually, news is not new: situations are either orchestrated or belong to the constant cock-up theory. Either way the public loses.

How much do authorities care? Police tasers are no different from electric cow prods and are potentially more lethal. Debt and austerity are mental cow prods. Suffering keeps us in hope and fear. We are constantly being manipulated. Ping-ponged!

This is the state of the world at this present time. Blame and reaction play into the manipulators’ hands. The devil mentality makes us believe in this conventional world as reality, as a constant solid – when it’s not! Take away that belief and we cannot be manipulated. There is no devil – just utter selfishness.

Charles Baudelaire said, “The greatest trick the devil played was to persuade us that he does not exist,” thus suggesting that he does. The devil does not exist! Manipulators are constantly trying to persuade us that he does. He’s bogey man in the shadows, the alien, the reptilian… We associate Alistair Crowley Satanism, despite the fact that he actually never mentioned the devil. That is the great deception: he was a show man. But the deceivers have made a huge, huge foolish mistake…

The idea of the Devil and the idea of God have no reality. They are beliefs by consent: we’ve been a little sloppy in our thinking and logic.

There is good and evil, but this is merely a correct understanding of reality and a seeming reality. Good is our true, pure nature. Evil is the obscuration to recognising that true nature. Evil is merely a banal distraction: that which is not good, not beneficial.

So what is the foolish mistake?

The Devil wakes us up and God puts us to sleep!

The Devil is our own self identity, our self image.

God is our own righteousness about that self image – everything is fine, just believe, don’t worry, go back to sleep.

The ideas of both the Devil and God are banal beliefs.

Good and evil are to do with our true nature – pure essence – and the obscurations to recognising that pure nature, which is the excitement of the emotions. That’s all. If we want to blame someone, we should blame our selves. Whatever delusional, evil acts are committed, these are down to our and everyone’s self righteous selves.

That is not something we can stop in a hurry in others, but we can start now with our self. The whole point to this is protecting ourselves from harm, by merely not consenting to believe…anything!

When we understand the banality of ego, we can apply the four enlightened activities:

• pacifying is understanding that nothing truly exists, and there is no problem

• enriching is clarifying that fact

• magnetising is inspiring the recognition of wisdom within ego’s demonic activity

• destroying is merely reflecting ego’s activity

These arise from understanding and recognising our absolute nature of emptiness: evil can not affect emptiness. Emptiness just allows these banal distractions to be, without either accepting or rejecting.