Compassion "taking on the sins of others"

“Jesus died for our sins” is taken as a pithy statement in which deeper analysis is often overlooked.

If we consider that Jesus was an enlightened man, then we can see that he understood human behavior and that actions were outgrowths of conditioning and that the true nature of all beings is the stripped down and pure consciousness void of personality and flaw.

When Jesus took our “sins upon him,” I believe it possible that this refers to an experience Jesus might have had that he could have been in an enlightened state and capable of such deep compassion that he not only cognitively understood that much of human suffering was played out from the suffering that spawned that suffering and on backwards, but that he could feel the surge of pain by understanding the blindness of acting out in pain.

The intensity and the darkness of this experience could attract such negativity – especially if he is trying to explain that he is “taking on sins” of others.  When someone is in a lot of pain and hasn't reconciled it nor been able to recognize pain in others, they might have an attitude of “Don’t tell me you know how I feel” when that is probably not what Jesus was getting at at all.

The attraction of negativity could culminate in his crucifixion and his dying would then make him a martyr to those following him.  Now, after a couple of thousand years, I wonder how many followers of Jesus who believe that if they follow the idea of the man being the son of god, and not the practice of becoming more enlightened by meditation and sitting with ones own consciousness,  are following the proverbial road sign instead of the road.

As Jesus said, “I am the light and the way,” it probably was referring to the “I am” that we all are in our infinite and eternal cores.  Jesus probably added something like “believe me,” and it probably got convoluted to “believe in me” cause “I’m what it’s all about.” 

The reason I feel like I can take liberties with these scriptures is because – come on…  they were written by dudes who didn’t know him a few hundred years after his death, and considering translations and the evolution of language and meaning, I think if we consider Jesus an enlightened one, we can certainly try to see at the core of the verbiage.

In seeking enlightenment, one reaches deeper and deeper understanding of the human condition, of compassion, and of how underneath all of our stories and messed up and broken lives, we are shimmering infinite potential with various ways in which to manifest and create new stories.

When we go underneath what created our personalities and how we were formed, we have to acknowledge that although we made a lot of decisions that certainly was major in affecting the outcome of our lives; we also were products of many circumstances.  It is an interaction, and we become what we do and we do who we are.  If we truly look at the tapestry of our lives with the eyes of soul we can see that we are no better nor worse than anyone else.  

I am you, you are me.  We are really the same underneath it all before everything else happened in our lives.  It can provoke such sadness to look in to the dark eyes of someone who has committed a heinous crime.  Their brains might be sick, they may have had circumstance after circumstance that led to this outcome.  I am not excusing, but I can feel the anguish that the interaction of external action and internal choice led to this.  It is sad and painful, and when someone like Jesus can have such an expanded consciousness; I believe that he would have been able to feel the depths of pain that led to such evilness. 

I’d like to see everyone drop their guns, their knives, their axes, and their grudges.  Let’s just stop our yammering on about all the stuff that is impermanent and changing anyway, and get to what is permanent and underneath it all.  Let’s find in the center of our souls that which is light and love, and just leave each other be.  Amen.