Erase your afterlife!

So what happens when we die? One of the greatest appeals of christianity has always been afterlife. The fear of purgatory and the longing for eternal life have worked well to gathering millions of followers to something as bogus as the gospels.

They say that after the catholic follower dies, he or she goes to heaven to rejoice in utterly boring stuff for eternity. Now that really sounds silly. It means that in heaven in whatever form possible, there are trillions of people, because of course, not only catholics go to heaven, god loves us all. So heaven is a place, not on earth, quite crowded with good people being bored for eternity.

An explanation that so many people believe in, yet there are many simpler, and none simpler than the one the Way of the Emptiness gives. WE DIE! THAT'S IT! Of course, our soul does not. But our soul as the driving force of our body essentially dies with us, it's memory erased the moment it goes back to wherever souls live when they don't have a form.

Does that mean that we live eternally? No. Our soul does. The closest theory to that idea is of course the one with the past lives. But it misses the point. It is impossible to us to remember, even unconsciously anything from another life of the soul wearing us today. Because when the soul steps back into its own eternal wait for a body it forgets ever having one, it feels newborn again, longing for some form to take, not knowing what that might be and surely not looking for someone in particular, on earth or anywhere else.

So yeah, live, because then you die and there's nothing else.

There is no God! We created ourselves!

Where do we come from? Is the evolution theory correct? Is there something out there that is "higher" of us? Have we been created or he have we evolved? Both, actually!

Emptiness is, as stated before, the state in which our souls are before inhabiting a form on this planet, and probably others. That God or some other beings have created everybody would be silly. It would mean that there is a being out there thinking all our lives at once. That would mean that we already know everything about each other as we are just fabrications of one mind. The truth is that we are individual and unique, each and every soul connected perfectly to it's body.

Of course that, since the first micro-organism formed on Earth, biology teaches that the organisms on the planet evolved, as it is natural for any living thing. some evolved into developing greener branches, others evolved through war and technology.

And yes, human beings still evolve, but not only technologically. In the video on the side you'll find quoted a study that says that every 10 years this planet average IQ level rises by 3!

So humans are, after all, closer to understanding Emptiness.

Killing in the name of yourself!

Modern day common thinking agrees widely at least when it comes to educated people with Rousseau's theory of people being turned bad by the society, otherwise we would be all good and jolly with each other all the time. A simpler point of view coming from the same theory states that there are no good or evil people by nature, only by education (may it be parental, self-induced or indirect) they turn to one of the two directions.

Not to fall back on the previous pure/bad comparison, good and evil are not simple antagonistically ways for one to lead its life. But the way of emptiness is quite simple in that regard. The masks we use for every person we encounter contain the good and the evil in them, respectively. You can be good to the people that deserve your goodness and evil who those who are trying to harm you or your close ones.

Yes, Emptiness will condone killing another human being. It will condone not turning the other cheek but crushing the source that brings harm your way. It will do even more than that. Not only that one has a duty to defend himself and his loved once, but in order to do that it is wiser to eradicate a potential danger than to just turn it away. That is nor good nor evil, it is living.

Again, following the ways of Emptiness means that we know how others really function. So it is forbidden to satisfy one pleasure if somebody else gets hurt.

Nobody is good or evil by nature. Only actions can be that, and even than it depends on which side of the story you are.

There are no bad people!

Why not sin as hell? It is after all, the natural thing to do. Modern day society deems all whom indulge in such behavior as repramandable, even bad people. While in fact the only thing they're doing is being human.

And we come to the real reason sin, as a concept, has such enormous success and is the thing that torments many people on day to day basis: envy. Although it's coming out of fear of superior beings and/or lack of afterlife sin is kept alive by envy.

A lot of people have decided, because of the way they were raised by their frustrated parents, to stay away from sin as it is mortal to the soul. We already know how little the soul has got to do with all that but let's not digress. Staying away from pleasurable activities deemed sinful, all those pure people look with envy at those who indulge themselves and live a satisfied life.

And because of envy you will see them pointing: there goes one of those bad people, they party all night and have sex with strangers and 'oh my lord' they masturbate and don't want to get married.

For us bad people it isn't really quite that bad. If one of the puritans points out to you, be happy he is envious of the way you lead your life. Tell them this:

There are no bad people, there are only people that live and people that don't.

Sin, the natural thing to do!

Emptiness is many things!

But for sure it is not sin. too often we come across people who believe that their actions may be sinful in front of God or human judgment. There is another even funnier expression of this, from people who understand the whole concept of sin is bullshit, still they use it: Abnormally attracted to sin!

So wrong, in so many ways. First of all no actions can be sinful, everything we do we do in order to keep ourselves satisfied, which should be the clearest meaning of life. Of course, many philosophies, christian, esoteric, or otherwise teach us that the need of self satisfaction is to be overcome. Christians believe they need to abstain from all sorts of things to be one with god, orientals do the same in order to be one with the universe. Just different types of bullshit.

So, considering all those ideas that created the concept of sin to be wrong, the simple conclusion is that: There is nothing abnormal to being attracted to be satisfied. Not even that satisfaction means rather destructive patterns, as is masochism. But even a masochist acts to fulfill his own needs, thus making him all and all human.

But the funniest thing about sin comes from catholicism (btw, the auto correct tool from Google is trying to put caps on that word, the idiots). They teach their followers that sin is the worse thing a human could comit, yet on everyone's deathbed comes a priest with absolution.

Why not sin as hell than? It is after all, the natural thing to do.

Who is this mask for?

We are our brain, the we everybody else sees. The perfect masks hiding the Emptiness. Masks, not mask. Because everything we create about ourselves we create as a response to others.

Our brain will create an image of ourselves for each and every one type of person we encounter, adding some features especially for each individual. When we meet a new person we instantly tag it amongst others like it and act accordingly in our pretense. Then, if it reaches that point and we get to know an individual closer we add more and more features to the designated mask.

One of the other common misconceptions of western civilization and part of the eastern too is that love is something higher, greater and other pompous attributes. In fact, one of the things it is is that a person, actually getting close enough, will make us create more and more features for ourselves that have that only one person as a reason. So there appear things that "i can only feel when I'm around him/her". Simple way of describing a deeper process.

The Emptiness is there, where feelings were or should have come if one was a lesser, untangled creature. The chemistry and brain functions involved in actually sharing your life for good with one person are far more abstract. How can one actually believe it's only about pheromones? Modern science teaches us shameful explanations for our existence.

You are the story you made up about yourself

We left the brain for last. Because on the contrary of western civilization belief the brain does not lead, the soul does. It doesn't make it any less important in order to master Emptiness.

As already stated: "Emptiness means many not one!". It means a master of emptiness must interact with as many people as possible, in order to create himself a more credible story. And you are the story you made up about yourself. There are people who know you angry, loving, being a jerk, sad, depressed and many, many other proofs of having feelings. There are people who can strongly say that your main flaw is that you still have a heart.

That only means that your soul has created a story so good for its vessel that the Emptiness is perfect and perfectly hidden behind a lot of fillers. All that web of illusions about yourself have been generated by the brain.

So yes we are our brain, the we everybody else sees. The perfect masks hiding the Emptiness.

Hail to the Emptiness!