Essay for
May 2003

Framework

A framework is any form of structure you have been born into, adopt or create that provides a reason and direction for your life beyond this short physical existence. Those who take this physical life as all there is, normally still abide by moral and ethical rules. This can be for a multitude of reasons, some of which are fear of legal consequences, social position, a childhood embedded sense of right and wrong, fear of rejection or a need to be accepted in society. Whatever the reason, if they honestly believed this physical existence is all there is, they would allow their desires unfettered freedom to run riot. But they do not. There is one definite but subliminally embedded reason why this occurs. The reason being individual consciousness is impersonally embedded with the nature of Absolute Consciousness. If you spirit logically work it out, it can be no other way.

The personal knowing aspect of individual consciousness chooses to draw or not to draw upon that embedded nature. The draw upon that nature is individually realized or felt as compassion. One does not have to work or even think to be compassionate, it occurs very naturally. If you see someone injured or hurt, your first response — if you do not allow your developed or created constructs to interfere — would be to help the injured person. This impersonal base exists within everyone, but it requires you to make it personal. It is the impersonal base of individual consciousness, which prevents those having no framework to place their existence into from giving free reign to their most nefarious thoughts. And they are not even aware of it. This is the freedom all have: to ignore or accept the base foundation of their own consciousness. Using that freedom wisely is its own reward. Misusing that freedom may bring legal consequences, but it also creates maladapted resolution energy responses. The resolution response normally creates some form of mental anguish and possibly physical suffering. All of this is done by and to the same individual who created the problem by not being responsive to their own constructed base.

Living your life without a framework to put that existence into can be the subtlest entrapment, in the guise of absolute freedom. On the other hand, frameworks of any description carry the potential to grossly entrap, and then distort the entrapment as freedom. So why bother to adopt or create a framework to live your life? Or, what is important to you, and why?

It may come as no surprise that many do not even contemplate these questions. They are born into a framework and simply accept it as valid, some may struggle with it while others outright reject any form of framework. Is a framework important? If yes, why? And if not, why not? The answer to those questions is another question: why do you exist? It is here, with ease that one falls back into a belief-faith response, which is an adopted or born into framework response. If you have no born into, adopted or created framework, there appears to be no response beyond a myopically materialistic construct. But there is another way to respond to that question, and that requires you to plunge into the investigation of your own existence to experientially discover, and so personally know the answer to those questions.

Why do you exist? A belief-faith response is generally connected with worship and service to a creator source. This normally provides a direction for your life within suggested moral and ethical guidelines, accompanied by a variety of devotional and ritual practices. If this is carried out with honesty of motivation, it all works relatively well. If the practices, rituals and devotion overtake the personal motivation all may still appear healthy. But it can become the breeding grounds of duplicity. It is similar to building a facade of a house that is all propped up from the inside. From the outside the shell may look magnificent, but within it is absolutely devoid of any substance. The builder of the facade, like those who witness it, takes the facade as real, as it can be seen as individual devotional, ritual or service actions. The duplicity now easily arises, as no matter what the builder does the facade remains. From the outside the house always looks well maintained and structurally sound. The builder can run outside and do whatever he/she pleases, then return to within the facade and feel protected and safe. And those who witness it would all agree the builder is safe, as you only have to look at the magnificent house. But when the builder dies the facade crumples exposing the inside of what could not be seen before, and there is simply nothing of substance there.

A belief-faith has positive direction. But if that belief-faith cannot be individually practiced with consistent and experiential motivation for every thought and action, the substance of one own existence will not be realized. One can place motivation within the facade, but the facade is not real. The facade is there only to provide safety and a temporary home, allowing you to unfold the substance of what the facade is created from. To live your life continually within a facade, believing the facade is all that is necessary, fools no one except yourself.

If you follow a belief-faith pathway and create a facade to direct that existence, that's fine, as long as you use the facade as safety and protection while you construct the substance of the interior. If not, the facade is just that, a facade. If you take a pure knowing-faith pathway there may or may not be a facade, but the work on the interior takes precedent. Beginning with the foundation a house is build from the bottom up. When complete you simply walk away from it, as the house is no longer necessary. The motivation was in learning how to build, not the result. The full house is now empty, as you are not there. Paradoxically, the non-existent house is how it was before you began building. The difference between a full and empty house is experientially knowing the structure, or knowingly realizing the substance of your own construction. Once realized, a full and empty house is identical.

So, why do you exist? If you look outside or beyond yourself for the answer many answers will be discovered, but never known. If you look no further than yourself you can discover the answer directly, as it merely requires uncovering.

Back to the beginning, is a framework necessary? The answer is a resounding yes, for both a belief-faith pathway and a knowing-faith pathway. In a belief-faith pathway the framework is created for you; you simply have to follow it with honesty. If not, you ultimately become your own worst enemy. In a knowing-faith pathway you create your own framework as you proceed, sometimes one pebble at a time. It can be a trying process. The end result is that you know every pebble on that pathway. And never will you trip or stumble, as you know its construction from beginning to end.

Faith is the common denominator in both a belief-faith and a knowing-faith. A belief-faith is normally upon a messenger and the message or varying combination of them both. A knowing-faith rests squarely upon personal experiential revelation of your consciousness construction. A knowing-faith does not rest upon something outside oneself, but upon the experience of the revelation.

The end result for both a belief-faith pathway and a knowing-faith pathway is identical. They are simply parallel pathways to the same end. When you reach the end, how you got there is irrelevant. The only relevance is that you get there; how you do it really does not matter.

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