Can we elude our TRUE NATURE?

Question

or do we have no choice in it?

Answer 1

Yes, but only for a while.

Answer 2

Our nature will be governed by either our flesh or our spirit. The flesh can be consider that self-centered programming that we call instincts. We feed our lusts only for them to return later on hungrier than ever. The flesh is never satisfied, and left uncontrolled it is destructive.

The spirit is concerned with God and with others. The basis of religion should be for us to walk in the spirit rather than the flesh. It is living a controlled life that exhibits itself in love, wisdom, and faith. As a Christian, I would say that many have been able to elude that flesh nature, many have escaped addictions.

Answer 3

Mother nature usually gets her way.

The nature of life is to collect energy, reproduce and defend itself.

Now everyone has to eat, but lets say you decide to give up sex and become a pacifist.

Now you HAVE eluded your nature. But you've also just signed up for genetic extinction. So what has eluding nature got you?

Answer 4

Yes, we can elude our true nature, we have a free will, addictions and habits may seem like there's no choice. We can pray and desire to change it.

Answer 5

No, by definition your true nature is what you were born with and what you have for the rest of your life. You can however carry different personas.

Answer 6

Your True Nature has nothing to do with what you "think".

Answer 7

Yes, its called civilization.

Answer 8

yes, if we know our weaknesses we can willingly try to avoid situtions that would make our bad nature come out.

that can be done, if we want to

Answer 9

I've always wondered this myself. That really depends on your situation. If you're determined enough, I believe you can.

Answer 10

"Who am I?" is a question famously posed by Ramana Maharshi.

Plato stated that the goal of philosophy was to know God.

"Know thyself as God" was part of the ancient Greek wisdom.

"I and the Father are One" taught Christ Jesus.

Plotinus realized One Mind Soul was Being, and erring was Soul-field denying Light of God, Light of Soul, Energy, by misapplying it.

God being pure, perfect, infinite, divine Love, Joy, Truth, Justice, Mercy, and so on, it is good that we elect to love God completely. This is our true nature, and why would anyone wish to elude divine Love, Joy, and bliss, and so on?

The Bible notes one motive: greed, desire to be "as god" with none of the accountability to other parts of Life. Egotism...the talking serpent...would delude with synthetic self-ishness, diversions, etc.

"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, has much to say about this energy-veiling, e-veiling or eviling, which Plotinus called error, and which the Bible calls sin, or missing the mark.

That mankind has the ability to choose implies the somewhat self-defeating option to make wrong choice. Original sin was wrong choice based on greed, pride, egotism; later sin tends to be of many causes.

So, to know self, one's true nature, reflect on divine Love, reflect and remember those times as a child when you were happy, kind, joyous, loving, peaceful, and suchlike--this is your inner child, or soul, and it ought be championed by you as you journey through life.

Each day is as a mini-lifetime, with birth and waking being similar. Give yourself some waking time to notice your dreams, your alpha waves, before an alarm or music takes you to other consciousnesses and agendas.

Give a few moments of love to God, read a Bible verse; this is like being a good parent who helps his or her child know of the Kingdom within, who gives a good moral insight for the day or life ahead. At the end of the day or life, are you learning grander lessons of spirit and wisdom, or are you overly beset with tiredness, poverty, worry, forgetfulness of your inner child and how you began the day/life? By learning of each day's lessons, we can have better tomorrows and a better life.

Do you pray before sleep (or passing on) that the Lord bless and guide thee? How we enter the portals of sleep gives direction to how our waking subconscious--which becomes our dreaming consciousness--learns and responds to angel hints. If we are very fortunate, we awaken in our dreams to Heavenly soul-states, and learn much more quickly.

"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton, "The Master of Lucid Dreams," Olga Kharitidi, M.D., "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet, and "Man's Psychic Life: Elements and Structures," Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, are typical of recent valid teachings in this area.

"The Field," Lynne McTaggart, "Psychoenergetic Science," Dr. William Tiller (), "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock (), "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D., "Extraordinatry Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer, and "Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda () are all good discussions of what is "true nature" and so on.

Http://www.coasttocoastam.com has occasional guests who touch on this general topic. All of the authors and books mentioned (C. S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" ought be included) are great reads (particularly if you apply them ;)

best regards,

j.