What is the truth and how do you identify a lie?

08/09/06 Guadalajara

I had a friend call today to ask for my advice about what she should do with her boyfriend whom she had caught in a lie. I meditated about it and came up with some information that was quite freeing for me and interesting enough that I will be using the information in my own path of knowing the truth. I hope you also find it interesting, if not useful in your life as well.

The question about lying should be directed at yourself rather than your boyfriend and it would be: What prevents you from knowing the truth of a statement at the time that it is made?

The answer is: Your acceptance as the truth, of one or more primary lies about who and what you are, is the basis of your problem. When you accept as truth, a lie about yourself, then a new lie feels the same to you as something that you "know" is true and so we become incapable of divining the truth.

The first big lie that most of us accept as the truth, is that we are "the body" and that we were created. The truth is, that we always have been and always will be ourselves, with or without a body. So first,

Do not identify yourself as your body or as a creation. You are a creator not a creation.

Identification as the creation is the source of your limitations and discomfort.
To prove this to yourself, feel the pain and discomfort of your normal state of beingness, how you deal or cope with life, then consider the possibility that it is all a lie.
It is not you. It is a manufactured reaction or strategy for dealing with life as a limited being or created life form and it lifts from the body as you recognize it as such. It is a coping mechanism, not you.

Observe your suppression's, contractions, pains and sufferings. Then see what happens to them when you consider the possibility that they are also lies. They lift and leave. What remains is Joy, love and consciousness which is what you are.

As you live your life and experience limitations, ask each limitation or barrier to your freedom if they are another lie that you accepted as the truth. If they feel lighter as you ask the question, it is a lie. Identify it as a lie, feel it in your body, focus on how it feels until it leaves and you will be free of it. You will then have returned to you a degree of your natural freedom.

If it is solid, it is a lie.
If it hurts, it is a lie.
If it constricts and limits, it is a lie.
The truth flows freely, without limitation, oppression or effort.

The entire life of your body has been built upon a continuous series of lies. The more of them that you accept as the truth, the worse the life is that you experience.

Truth is Freedom
Beauty
love
Joy

The truth is, YOU are responsible.
Response-Able
Able to respond to any circumstance in life, in a way that is freeing, beautiful, loving, joyful and harmonious, for everyone.

Without knowing the truth of who and what you are, you do not have the information available to you to decide what course of action to take and what code of behaviors will bring you joy, love, fulfillment and satisfaction in your life here. So challenge your every accepted "truth" to determine if it is the truth or a lie and challenge every lie and see if it in fact may be the truth. Only you should decide for yourself what is true. Take the time to do so, you will be well rewarded.

When you know the truth, you will then know what you should do and who you should be with.

Give truth a chance

Immanuall