"Sin" is not a popular term and is open to ridicule by those who reject an out-moded Christian paradigm based on guilt. To me, sin is still a viable concept and useful construct, but in the emerging cosmic citizenry paradigm (which includes Christianity), it is defined more realistically. No longer are we penitents flogging ourselves with penance nor the rebellious daring all blaspheme -- two categories of being which the old conception of sin produced in abundance.
Sin is separation. Sin is cutting oneself off from one's full being. Rather than opening to cosmic citizenry and full participation in the interflow of being, one shuts oneself down, proclaims oneself a separate tiny kingdom, refuses to open to the synchronous and the synthronous.
I know. Folk are fond of saying that sin means "missing the mark." Same thing. Separation. Separation from the mark. The shot arrow thunks off target or off bulls-eye.
When we are no longer whining petitioners or rebellious buttheads but actively involved as cosmic citizens (in Christian language, Christ consciousness), we are no longer separate. We have opened into a realm that is without sin. Our Source is within us and we are within our Source. We do not stand aside to look at It. We are It. And It is us.
Sin is separation. Sin is cutting oneself off from one's full being. Rather than opening to cosmic citizenry and full participation in the interflow of being, one shuts oneself down, proclaims oneself a separate tiny kingdom, refuses to open to the synchronous and the synthronous.
I know. Folk are fond of saying that sin means "missing the mark." Same thing. Separation. Separation from the mark. The shot arrow thunks off target or off bulls-eye.
When we are no longer whining petitioners or rebellious buttheads but actively involved as cosmic citizens (in Christian language, Christ consciousness), we are no longer separate. We have opened into a realm that is without sin. Our Source is within us and we are within our Source. We do not stand aside to look at It. We are It. And It is us.
I think that a a very helpful thing about the Christian concept of sin is that it not only identifies what it is but it also provides a means of dealing with it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a delicate area and can be misunderstood and misapplied in many ways. I feel the need to speak and write of it anyway. We are moving beyond ego-identification to planetary citizenry and cosmic citizenry. Some of those old terms in which we are stuck need to be jettisoned or redefined. For those who jettison, Taospeed! My focus here is to redefine, to help build a link from the old language to where we now are. There are still folk down in that well who need a ladder.
ReplyDelete"Sin", I once read, meant "point of view". 'To miss the mark' applies here. The "sinner" must alter their position to hit the mark. Many that I encounter where I live seem to believe that they simply haven't mastered the art of 'trick shooting', that if they believe harder, becoming more faithful in 'God', that the ability will come to them. They feel that to change their point of view is to commit yet another sin.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of 'sin' has paralyzed them, leaving them in darkness.
i misses the I when i doesn't real-i-ze that i and I are one, i.e., when i doesn't aye/eye the I.
ReplyDelete--Gary