What is Truth? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

What is the truth about truth?

We spend so much time deluding ourselves and others that it is no wonder that we haven’t a clue what ‘truth’ is.

We have our own truths. We have our family sanctioned ‘truths’, our social ’truths’, our group ‘truths’. But how do we know what ‘truth’ is?

We are more deluded than truthful. We are programmed and ultimately prejudiced and through these narrow definers we spout our ‘truths’.

Our nationality, our town, our family, our origins can give us our ‘truths’. Are these ‘home truths’ then?

These are delusions of what and who we are. We are not free to see and to hear because we are deluded.

The truth is that we do not know what truth is. If we can convince ourselves of this truth, then we can open the way to move forward.

A Saint is A Sinner Who Falls A Hundred Times a Day (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

What does this mean?

It means a realisation. To accept themselves exactly as they are.

The human condition means that we are prone to 'falling' or 'failing'.

The Saints became aware of their fallings, failings and human condition.
So they accepted them in the light of being aware.
Being aware enabled them to journey on their paths.

Then they understood many fallings and failings and grew in spirit and in light.
By standing under the fallings and failings they drew on God.
Then they overcame some fallings and failings.
By coming over their fallings and failings through the Light.
But they still fell and failed sometimes or often.
And they could recognise this.

And they remained in the human condition and so could forgive us our fallings and failings very readily.

Recognise you as you are. Accept you as you are. God does.

Allow yourself to be and do not blame yourself and load on the guilt about your shortcomings.
We can grow with them, through them and by standing under them.
Sometimes, we can overcome them, but not always.

Do not force it.

Just be aware.

Just become more aware, in time.

Don't rush.

There is all the time in the world.

The Saints know that.

The Saints did not know that they were Saints either.

So you don't have to be a Saint.

You can be an informed sinner and lose the guilt!

Western Values (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

We expect a high standard of living by earning a lot of money and paying low taxes.

We demand this high standard of living so the Home Office and the Foreign Office must act accordingly or we will not vote 'them' in again.

The Home Office must flex its muscles and put emphasis on excluding immigrants;
The Foreign Office must make sure that we get the trade and industry needed to support our lifestyles. To do this, national interest takes precedence over international and environmental interests and over the injustices enacted on the peoples of other countries.

So the Foreign Office declares war on a people whose land or resource is required; there is death, devastation, dissidents and a lot of refugees fleeing.

Some of whom become immigrants.

Immigrants in Britain (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Contemporary Life
Immigrants in Britain: a statement.

Well, they have no right here have they?
They are taking our jobs, our social security, our houses, our schools, our communities.

They cause us all the problems of a country which is too full: crime, lack of resources.

If they were not here, we wouldn't have so many problems. They are to blame.

A Reflection on this.

Well, the thing is that we are not seeing clearly.
We are looking for someone to blame for the hurt and anger inside of us, inside you, inside me.
The hurt and the anger inside comes from our prejudices, our conditioning.
Therefore, we cannot see clearly. We cannot understand.

People will move, migrate to another place if they believe that they can achieve a better quality of life for themselves and for their families as would you and I.
They are merely seeking to improve their lot. So are you and I.

Life would be good if only...(© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Well, life would be good if it were not for:

the weather;
the taxes;
the neighbours;
the crime;
the immigrants;
the murderers;
the drug pushers;
the paedophiles;
the religious groups;
the atheists;
the radicals;
the extremists;
the politicians;
the terrorists;
the others;
the housing estates;
this house;
this car;
this child's sickness;

this living hell.

Who is my neighbour? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

The Lie.

Who is my neighbour?

S/he who makes me feel comfortable;
S/he who sees the world as I do;
S/he who rejects what I reject;
S/he who finds injustice where I find it;
S/he who believes in what I believe in;
S/he who allows me to stay where I am.

Where are you?
What do you believe in?
Where do you find injustice?
What do you reject?
How do you see the world?
What makes you feel comfortable?

Are you free?

The Truth.

Who is my neighbour?

S/he who makes me feel uncomfortable;
S/he who sees the world as I do not;
S/he who does not reject what I reject;
S/he who finds injustice where I do not find it;
S/he who believes in what I do not believe in;
S/he who does not allow me to stay where I am.

Am I not free?

What do we want to see? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

What do we want to see?

We want to see things in the perspective of the conditioning and the lies.

Why do we want this?

Because we are too frightened to go outside of the pre-conditioning and the programming.

Why are we too frightened to go outside of the pre-conditioning and the programming?

Because we will be in an unknown place and we will not have any crutches from the world to lean on.

We will not have our boundaries in which we feel comfortable.

We will not have our family to tell us we are ok for as long as we follow their lead.

We will not have our friends to tell us we are ok for as long as we fit in their group.

We will not fit in the group.

The group will reject me.

We will be in a foreign place, all alone.

But we in the foreign place, all alone can meet each other if we look and we see.

And then we can be alone, all one together and others will join.

What keeps us living the lie? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

What keeps us living the lie?

The conditioning.

Who conditions us?

Our parents.
Our family.
Our school.
Our church.
Our community.
Our friends.
Our colleagues.
Our upbringing.
Our politics.
Our perspectives.
Our self-interest.
Our prejudices come from these.
We do not see without the pre-conditioning of looking at things in a certain way.
We see only what we think we should see.
So we cannot see at all.

You do not have to change (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

Be as you are.
Be comfortable with your guilt, your vices, your fears and your inadequacies.
Get to know them.
Forgive your 'shortcomings'.
Do not seek to change.
Just seek.

To repent does not mean to ask you to throw off all of your 'faults'.
It means accept yourself.
As you are.

'Go and sin no more' does not mean go and have no faults anymore.
It means go and be comfortable with who you are; get to know yourself; that is being with God.

Not being with God is the sin.
Being with God as you are is the aim.

There are no pre-conditions to being with God.

Then you will begin to know yourself; then you will begin to accept others just as they are.

Then everything changes without any effort or doing.

The Lie is, the Truth is (© 2008 Eileen Baker)

The Lie.

It is you. It is them.
They are wrong.
If they did what I expected of them, all would be well.
They have the wrong ideas, so that is why we cannot live with them.
And anyway, they don't like us.
They create war, we don't.
They are the war mongers, we are not.


The Truth.

Is is I. It is not you, it is not them.
I am at fault. You are not at fault.
I am not seeing you clearly. You are seeing me clearly.
Let me look through your eyes.
Let me understand.
This is the bottom line, there is no more.