Original sin is not something frightening and biblical; it is just the condition into which you were born.  It is what you agreed to, when you came to this plane.  It is the starting line.

“Original” means “from the beginning”, meaning the beginning of physical life on this plane, as you know it.  It’s as though you just woke up here.  This is all you know.

 

 

“Sin” doesn’t really mean what you take it to mean. It sounds like something bad that you did and need to be punished for.  But “sin” has a simple and precise meaning: “to miss the mark”, as an arrow does. To make a mistake, to see things wrongly, not to realize, to be blind, oblivious, unknowing. These are all meanings of original sin. It is what you have to wake up from.

 

 

You have all had that moment of complete and sudden understanding about something you had been getting wrong, and now see rightly, and in that seeing alone is the behavior dropped. If you like them, these little wakings up, epiphanies as you can call them, then it can easily be arranged that you will have them more and more. Dwell on the insights you have been given, give thanks for them and pay attention to them. Each time you do so, you are creating a channel of energy between these happy enlightenments and the Sender of them.

Original sin is nothing to be afraid of. When you fear something, your instinct is not to deal with it, thus ensuring your slavery before it forever.

Is this a way for an enlightened being to exist?

 

 

When you fear something, you should rather wish to disable it instead, to shine the light of your holy, dispassionate attention onto it, and question it.  Why are you here?

 

Name your worst fears now.  What are they? Your husband is an alcoholic, your son wants to live as a woman, your wife is leaving you, someone else is going to jail, or does drugs, or is not normal, will never be able to support himself. Find out your worst fear and ask it: why are you here? I cower before you: why? You keep me subservient and afraid.  Why am I choosing this?  Let me see you for what you are, just a set of well-practiced thoughts that I polish every day by my constant attention.

 

 

Oh, stop.  When fear presents its arguments to you, question them.  What is the worst that can happen? Imagine a thought pattern as a three-legged stool.  One of the legs of this stool is your constant attention to it.  Right now, the thought pattern is strong and balanced.

What do you think would happen if you withdrew some of the attention you are giving?  If you withdrew all of it? With one leg missing, the stool would topple over uselessly. You would have disabled it completely, so that it could not stand. This is how to break out of original sin.  By conscious attention.

 

When I have learned the lesson, I will stop seeing it