Ok, here comes the nut to crack (or is it open already?):
If it is so, that our senses show us a world, that is effectively not real – how then do we (whatever “we” in essence is) deal with it? How do we arrange our daily life, what is our basis for plans, how do make sure that our needs are met?
Well, the answer is: no one knows. We are experiencing something that is an illusion, a dream, a halucination, a hologram, a matrix – whatever works for you. Depending on your state of mind you might only accept this on an intellectual level. However, even for those who live only in concepts about Truth, there is the right time to open up to the experience of what living in an illusion truly means. However, even if this happens, we are likely to come back to our ordinary way of seeing things and have a lot of questions. What does this mean now for me and how do I live my life from now on?
'Know thyself' is not an appeal to accumulate more concepts about you. It is an appeal to let all concepts about you go.
No change of circumstances is asked of you, unless you feel inspired to create a life situation around you, so you can spend more time investigating your True Nature. As it might have become obvious to you now is, that you are not a body. You don’t even have a body, the body is merely an assumption, a conceptual construct (past experiences projected into the the future; whereas both, past and future, are non-existent).
Still, we hold the belief in a body very firmly, and thus do have to clothe, to feed, to bathe the body, and have to give it comfort. We don’t have to discard the old ideas about “how to look after the body”, only because we glimpsed that it is not real. Instead our best and most gentle advise is to keep doing what we do, and give every single concept about the body, about the world, to the Light that sustains our live. Over time (and you might have discovered this already) you gain trust and faith, that the Light does solve all your worries and problems. Not only that you carry less and less worry with you in your mind while your life is going haywire. But also do you discover that in actual fact what you thought your problems to be, never turn into experienced reality. This is because they are taken care of by someOne who is beyond our sensual experience. You will still experience ‘negative’ situations, but there only True purpose is to offer you a chance to hand over your old concepts about yourself, life, Truth, the world, and the body. Because really – we have no clue how things Really Are. Thus, all our concepts and knowledge turn out to be baggage and the best and only thing we can do with it, is to hand it over.
Love Is.
PS. Check this out in your own life: Everything in this world, every single concept that we have, somehow relates to the body.
