Being A Cloud is only the first step

Being A Cloud instead of a Mountain is only the first step in the process to enlightenment.

Once being fully and truly a cloud, then the Cloud must evaporate so the cloud is no more. The spark returns to the source, because even a cloud has a personality, a self, a survival instinct.

Moisture in the air creates a cloud by the moisture condensing into water. Thoughts, desires, fears, condense to make a personality, an ego, Id.

Matter is energy condensed. We are thought. Therefore the personality is just thoughts that are condensed into an individual person. Fears and anger are the most powerful thoughts.

When we remove desires, the cloud dissolves and the water returns to the atmosphere. This is what Ibn Arabi, the Sufi, explained as the ultimate enlightenment, annihilation.

The moisture is still in a bubble around the planet, the atmosphere. Does this mean that we are forever trapped as the thoughts are contained in the universe?

As Hermes Trismegistus said in the Hermetica, that all things must be contained in something, therefore the universe is contained in something larger than itself, and that is our ultimate source, that which is larger than and contains the material universe.

The divine spark must return to its source. The source is outside the bubble of the universe. The spark is trapped in the bubble by its thoughts/emotions. When the cloud dissolves, the spark is free, but the spark must get outside the bubble of the universe and all thought forms to return to the source and that is when the individual spark is annihilated and rejoins and becomes the source it came from.

The fear of death is the ultimate ruler of a human being.

When I am not ruled by the fear of death, I am no longer a limited human. The wall of the bubble of the universe is the fear of death. Free from the fear of death, free from the bubble. The human and any other animal cannot be freed of this fear, instinct rules. I must conquer all instincts.

Desires are created by fears, the desire to have what alleviates the fear, or the desire to not have fear. Desires are born from fear.

What actually happens to a cloud to make it dissolve, or form? The environment changes, drier, hotter, colder. A cloud reacts, exists and disperses in response to changes in the environment. That is exactly how your personality is formed, as a reaction to events. One traumatic experience riding a horse, or in a car accident, and you are scared for life. Sankharas are created and can haunt you for lifetimes to come if you do not overcome that scar.

If I can become free from being effected by anything within the bubble of this world, then environmental changes may effect my body, but not me.

By knowing and accepting the ultimate end of the body, death, which brings freedom from the body, accepting this without fear, there is nothing left to fear, the emotions of fear and desires, and fearful thoughts, no longer are attached to and control the body and mind.

When I started flying, after I got my licence and had my own plane, I wanted to fly through a cloud. I picked a day that there were just a few white puffy clouds, so there was no risk of collision with another plane in a big cloud I could not see coming. The experience showed me the truth of how stupid yet controlling the body is.

As I was approaching the cloud, my mind knew exactly that there was no danger whatsoever, but my body saw a solid object and since I use my hands and feet to control the plane, being parts of my body, I started to shake and my heart raced with panic of impending death, 5,000 feet above the ground flying into what my eyes saw as a solid object.

Seeing fear and panic take over my body, but keeping my mind with knowledge of the truth about what the cloud is, I continued on course and flew through the cloud. After that, my body never panicked when flying into clouds again.

The body is a dumb animal, and like it or not, you are ruled by this dumb animal. I was just fortunate enough to experience how the animal works as a separate being to the mind, so I could gain more freedom having experienced the truth about the cause of many fears and emotions being totally imaginary and without cause.

List all desires and ponder if they ultimately come from a fear or pain that you want to end. Eliminate the fear, and desire will dissolve, like the cloud evaporating.

Fear of missing out, is also a fear. Fear is not only what you feel watching a scary movie.

Age, the passing of time, is a big factor in how the mind works. When we go from birth to becoming a mountain who needs recognition, as things change, as we get older, new fears and desires enter our mind.

Life is a collection of fears and desires.

List the different fears and desires you have at every stage of life and return back to the infant who has no fears but only the desire for pain and confusion to end. Then spend your life eliminating all these fears as you know they are not something you are born with, but only acquired through the process of life, which will ultimately end, fears die with your body.

Death is the ultimate redeemer freeing us from all human obligations.

Live a life without any fear or desire. That is a free life in which the cloud dissolves. Then, maybe, your ego will die before your body dies, and you will live freely in your body, to evolve and not return to suffering.

This is the only valuable aim and purpose for a human life.