Beware
of the superiority-inferiority dynamic
A message from Gautama Buddha. This dictation was delivered
during the Shangra-la conference in Emigrant, Montana, October 22, 2006.
May the peace of Buddha abide in you, so that you can stay on the middle
Way. For my beloved, when I appeared on Earth, those almost twenty-five
hundred years ago, I came into a situation and a culture that is much
similar to what many of you experience today. Buddhism did not appear
in a vacuum. It appeared in a culture that was dominated by Hinduism,
or should I say by a false Hinduism that had evolved over centuries.
And it had all of the characteristics that you see in any religion on
Earth, namely a leadership who thought that they had power over the
members, that they had the power to determine whether the members would
be saved or not because they thought that they were God’s representatives
on Earth. And then you had a large group of followers who passively
did whatever they were told, thinking that only by this blind obedience
would they enter Heaven.
And so, my beloved, my teaching that I gave forth was fully as revolutionary
as the teaching of Jesus, for I also taught that the kingdom of God
is within you. And the key to your salvation, the key to enlightenment,
is found within your own mind. It is found by working with your mind,
by overcoming the state of consciousness that binds you to the wheel
of suffering, the endless dualistic struggle that has been going on
since someone in the fallen consciousness first descended to Earth.
Superiority and inferiority
So my beloved, if you are willing to take a look again at spiritual
and religious organizations, you can see that so far most religions
on this planet – certainly most Christian churches, but you will
even see, my beloved, that many New Age organizations and ascended master
organizations have followed that same pattern – and that pattern
is very clear. These organizations are dominated by two kinds of students,
two kinds of people.
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There
are those who are the proud, those who take up leadership positions,
who love to have power, who love to feel they are above the other
people because they do this or that outer thing. So this then is
the one polarity of pride that is represented by what modern psychology
calls the superiority complex.
- And yet
you see another polarity, a majority of the people, who from a surface
perspective might appear to be the meek and the humble, yet if you
look closer, you will see that they are not truly meek and humble
for they are simply in the opposite polarity. And instead of wanting
to stand out form the crowd, they want to disappear into the crowd
and become invisible. For my beloved, they have indeed embodied what
psychology calls the inferiority complex. And so they feel so unworthy
to do anything on their own that they want an outer savior to do all
the work for them.
And
thus, my beloved, do you see that there is a codependent relationship
between those who feel superior and those who feel inferior? Those with
a superiority complex need to feel that they are better than others,
they need to feel that someone looks up to them. And those with an inferiority
complex gladly fill that role—for it also serves them, for they
can then feel that they have to do nothing. They don’t have to
stand out from the crowd, they can be invisible and yet feel that these
wonderful leaders that they worship will surely take them to the promised
land.
Can you not see, my beloved, that this is very true of the Catholic
Church? Can you not see that it is true of certain organizations sponsored
by the Ascended Host, where you find this codependent relationship between
people trapped in superiority and those trapped in inferiority?
And so, what is the way out my beloved? Well, the way out is –
of course – to realize that both the inferiority and the superiority
complex spring from the human ego and its duality. And so it is really
just a matter of which dualistic extreme you have entered into, whether
into the extreme of superiority or the extreme of inferiority.
What is the Middle Way?
Yet in either case, you have left off the Middle Way. And what is the
Middle Way? The Middle Way is those who are balanced. For they know
who they are. They have discovered the kingdom of God that is within
them. And my beloved, when you know who you are, you have no need to
feel superior to any other human being.
For you know you are a unique individual created by God. And all of
these dualistic evaluations and judgments have become irrelevant. They
have no consequence to you. Likewise, you also know that you are not
inferior to anyone on Earth, no matter what their position or rank might
be in some outer organization, and no matter what appearance of authority
or importance that organization might have.
For you know, my beloved, that there is a higher reality than what you
see on Earth. And therefore, you know that status among men means nothing
in the eyes of God. Did not Christ say that the low shall be raised
and the high shall be made low, that those who are first shall be last,
and those who are last shall be first? Did he not say that he who would
be greatest among you should be the servant of all? And did I not give
forth teachings, likewise, about overcoming—not just the pride,
but also its opposite polarity of the false humility that truly covers
over the inferiority complex.
And so, my beloved, you see that the essence of what is going on on
this planet is that people must come to the point, where they rise above
the dualistic struggle, the dualistic extremes, and find that balance,
that Middle Way, that is really not midway between the two extremes
but at a higher level, where duality has become irrelevant, it has become
of no consequence. And the questions that spring from the dualistic
mind are simply no longer of any importance to you, because you know
there is a higher, living truth that cannot even be expressed fully
in the words of duality. And so, you can come up higher.
Yet my beloved, there is an even higher understanding of this that we
desire to give you and I will leave that to my brother Maitreya.
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