Let deceit offer an education in freedom

 https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/20/discuss-worldwide-rally-for-freedom/

Let deceit offer an education in freedom - by no longer reacting in its frame.

That is the key; recognising rather than reacting in its frame.

Jesus gives example of one who was discerning not only of trickery of planned intent, but of the trickery of a mind set in the deceits of the 'world' - including many who followed him, but would lay a trip on him of specialness by which to seek to get from association while retaining social distance for a masking identity.

When his disciples - who were mostly common people, were sent out in twos to witness against the lockdown of a fear-set masking mind, and worldview, with only the movement of the Spirit that was in them because he had shared it to them and bid them do likewise, they would often meet a lack of welcome, to which he advocated,shaking the dust from their sandals and moving on by leaving with a blessing. That is, not to engage in wilful futility of resentments and grievance of offence - or carry such with them.

This of course isn't just advice for our relations with others, but with our own thought. The quality of the release of futility of struggle and grievance is living presence shared. The time and manner of its sharing may come in unexpected ways, but the demeanour is in any case shared as that of joy of being - as distinct from seeking joy in being right and needing the wrong in the Other as a special self-validation.

The social patterns of a mind in dissociative denial will mirror those of an individual, and this fractal pattern recognition allows the release of our inner deceits - that run bind, masked or hidden until we choose not to love to hate them in the Other.

Under the masking of a self-separate specialness, are core patterns of strategy for the 'surviving' of terror threat or 'Separation trauma' that present or 'face out' as the social demand for reinforcement to compliance in dissociation and masking as normal - and therefore as substitution for natural and spontaneous movements of recognition, appreciation and affection or gratitude.

The Idea of Jesus is not in the past or a special future for special ones, but in the living presence of life shared. Another way of seeing and being is always 'nigh' but this is not waiting on time, but on willingness. No names are needed for the recognition of life and worth in another, nor special identity in the true identification of a kindness truly shared. No rituals need be performed to align truly nor any dogma be demanded of compliance. Nor need a habit of such things block the willingness to give and receive truly as the moment at hand.

Demonstrating to ourselves and each other that we are not a conditioned response, but an expression of living being, calls for stepping out of the false comfort zone of a locked down mind to a thinking that runs as as its own as an unwitting denial of protected fears.

Manipulators can only prey on or target and leverage our fears - through their own.

Bringing our experience of fear and conflict to awareness is freedom to choose NOT to accept the call to deny, hide and mask fear. That recoils from relationship and communication - as a gesture by which light is sacrificed to prop up a fear-defined and fear-driven systemic substitution for Life. What could that be but something 'else' than Living? A mind and world of separate and conflicting intent is then a framework of thought to which the heart is induced to accept and support as complicity and compliance.

Leonard Cohen – Villanelle For Our Time

(adapted from Thomas Paine's poem)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxdDaFoBYXA

From bitter searching of the heart,

Quickened with passion and with pain

We rise to play a greater part.

This is the faith from which we start:

Men shall know commonwealth again

From bitter searching of the heart.

We loved the easy and the smart,

But now, with keener hand and brain,

We rise to play a greater part.

The lesser loyalties depart,

And neither race nor creed remain

From bitter searching of the heart.

Not steering by the venal chart

That tricked the mass for private gain,

We rise to play a greater part.

Reshaping narrow law and art

Whose symbols are the millions slain,

From bitter searching of the heart

We rise to play a greater part.