{"id":47834,"date":"2022-09-07T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47834"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:29:44","slug":"looking-for-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/09\/07\/looking-for-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for liberation."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018Surrender\u2019 whispers the guru.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Embrace love\u2019, says another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Transcend your ego!\u2019 is the third powerful pointer, from master number three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it all sounds pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what the fuck does it mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you DO all that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surrendering, embracing, transcending?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hearing that stuff is like eating delicious cookies that give you a headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, it kinda works, but you\u2019re left with just as much confusion and a few crumbs of knowledge, or at least it will feel that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world of spirituality is filled with promises and lofty ideas, and everywhere you look there are soft gazing eyes, handcrafted journals filled with tips and techniques, and toned yoga bodies in magnificent robes on tropical islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a world within a world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it can feel really serious and important and personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this world, there are paths and journeys and steps and wheels and certificates and levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we have to get rid of old stuff (there\u2019s a scary amount of that crap).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to leave our egos behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have to heal the past (if there even IS a past, because not all spiritual movements agree on that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to work REALLY fucking hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you have to completely stop trying and do nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, love is all we need, and are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All along, all the time, consciousness or whatever we call the intelligence that is behind all this and in this, is constantly creating whatever we believe this is, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether we look for meaning in trees or angels or crystals, or whether our gods are money and power and suppression, it\u2019s all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not as an experience, of course, but as creation itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is doing us, this, and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are life, pretending to be us, limited entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparent people, looking, longing, searching, suffering, fighting, hiding, and finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always looking for more, or less, or nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the fun part is, obviously, that we are already everything, always and all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not trying to be the smartest person in the classroom here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This little blog is just like everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an expression of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not against anything, and not for anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not even trying to be helpful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @manuelmeurisse, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Surrender\u2019 whispers the guru. \u2018Embrace love\u2019, says another one. \u2018Transcend your ego!\u2019 is the third powerful pointer, from master number three. And it all sounds pretty cool. Liberating. Profound. Exciting. But what the fuck does it mean? How do you DO all that? Surrendering, embracing, transcending? Hearing that stuff is like eating delicious cookies that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,102,97,117,100,105,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47836,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47834\/revisions\/47836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}