Dontaskme wrote:
Who is our original face behind the mask is the one question to all our answers.
Let's say we know our original face. Does life stop there? No, it goes on. Isn't that what we are doing, living our life? So we live, and we live it righteously in the sense, no vices and no wickedness, for they bring pain/suffering and no one likes pain/suffering.
Dontaskme wrote:
The higher mind is always this immediate self shining luminous presence right here and now, it is our true nondual self that lies behind the idea of right and wrong, space-time cause and effect duality. It's unconditioned pure love, comfortably numb, fearless and never suffers, having no concept of right or wrong, good or bad, pleasure or pain....but the one identified with itself is a superimposed idea overlaid upon that nondual self that will always seek for pleasure in order to feel comfortable, loved and wanted, and in that seeking lies the contraction of feeling separate, it seeks outside itself in vain to try complete itself without ever realising there is nothing outside of itself except it's own projection, and that what it seeks is already within itself, it's own comfortable neutral position of wholeness, completeness and love resides within itself always.
So if it seeks outside itself, then how is it God? And if it is, then it would not do that, but if it does, then it is not God for it develops failings like seeking outside itself in order to feel complete, for the feeling of wholeness would come with no vices nor wickedness in us. So that means it has developed vices and wickedness and so is fallen. We are that face of that fallen God(Let's say Highest Mind, for in the fallen state, it is Higher Mind and our mind here - two faces of God). We are the fallen face of our God(Highest Mind at that point, but Higher{one down} later on when fallen.)
My point is this simply - Let's say we know who and what we originally initially are in the world. Then what? Does life stop there? No, we live our life. And in living our life, we developed two faces, and we are the fallen face of our God in Heaven which we used to be before falling from grace in Heaven - the grace of God.
All said and done, I know it's a bit late to ask you that, but what exactly do you mean by, 'who's minding the store?' Do you mean to ask who is our original face?
Our original face is God.
"Know ye not that ye are all Gods, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
That is who minds the store(currently at the status Higher Mind, not Highest for we also have a mind here.)
Also, as a side comment, "Jesus is risen," we begin to understand, for we must also rise like Jesus did. Jesus was a fallen Almighty God(ruling authority of Heaven), others are simply public so Gods, Gods fall, Almighty Gods also fall. Vices like - laziness, lust, ego, envy, greed, gluttony, anger we must not keep in us as scripture says. Wickedness we must not do, or in other words, "Go, and do not sin," we begin to understand as scripture mentions. This way we rise into Heaven our actual abode after having paid all past dues, and we are Gods again having full consciousness, vast mind, mind of God again, Highest Mind, Highest Consciousness. This is not to say we cannot fall again, we can. Life goes the way it goes, and it's all good.