Red pill and Religion | Spiritual Enlightenment
Hello and welcome to the Ancient wisdom modern mind blog and today I would like to offer my perspective on The RED Pill and religion.
Recently I listened to a podcast that discussed The RED Pill from the perspective of Buddhism, which suggested that a Buddhist is a person that has taken The RED Pill, and who then moves from the state of dissatisfaction into a state of satisfaction, and from the perspective of attaining Buddha nature I fully understand where the monk was coming from, but I thought I would broaden this idea from the perspective of all religions.
My first premise is that BLUE Pill thinking is a religious mind set, and the RED Pill mind is an awakened mind, and in this sense of the meaning I do agree with the monk. But this is where I think the monk takes a little liberal license, because there are no enlightened monks, no enlightened religious leaders, and I say this because if for example a Buddhist monk was enlightened then he would be declared the new Buddha.
You see religions are formed around enlightened beings, and enlightened beings don’t join religions, so really all religions are trapped in a BLUE Pilled state, they are matrix’s that enslave the mind in ritual that promotes an ideological perspective which then seeks to subjugates the mind on the plantation of servitude, where there are sheep and guard dogs, and then we have the added danger that the guard dogs may in reality turn out to be wolfs, and you see this in some of the more extreme religions when one of the sheep tries to leave the plantation or when they voice a different opinion? So the religious BLUE Pilled mind is that of a simple and uncritical belief and faith that attaches its foundations to society and religions place in this cultural soup.
You see we have forgotten why society forms religion and why people agreed to this moral pulpit, religions were formed to help support the raising of children and to support women that have fallen on hard times. Their purpose was to raise the next crop of plantation slaves for society, and it had nothing to do with becoming enlightened. If one was incline towards higher spiritual realties then you would join the wild mystics or yogis in the forest, religion was there to help hold up the social and cultural matrix.
In a dualistic world there is good and evil, and for any society to work and develop. Evil needs to be held in check. Religions which were formed around the enlightened sages or saints would have that in built foundation for compassion and altruism, which is why they were charged with the role of supporting the weaker more vulnerable in society, the ones that without a religious guide would become easy prey to evil (of course today we call these people Sociopath or Psychopath because evil is out of fashion), but I digress. It is easy for children to fall into the hands of brutality and perversion, and without religion to hold the society together from an ethical perspective civilization would fall back on its animal instincts and we would make no more progress than the apes.
Now this is not to say the religions have not also fallen at times and lost their moral way and become devoid of compassion. But more often they lift people up and hold the society to an ethical standard that without religious support would fall.
So all religions are BLUE Pilled institutions, a part of the matrix that helps to keep the code running. Whereas the RED Pill state is where one is freed from the matrix of religious and cultural idealism. These are the Buddha’s, Yogis, Mystics and the Saints, men who left society behind, their goal was to break the matrix and free the mind from its dualistic thinking which assumes there is a universe where there are only two contrasting, mutually exclusive choices or realities.
One of the core themes in The Matrix is the concept that if you want to transform your world, you must first identify how you have been programmed, decide whether the programming is accurate, and then how to reprogram yourself, of course this is also a core concept in the philosophy of the Buddha, Vedism and the Greeks Pre-Socratic philosophies.
The BLUE Pill of religion offers comfort and security, stability and order, yet it imperils the individual dominated by this type of uncritical thinking. It exposes those who are drawn in by it to a greater risk of falling into an “us VS them mentality”, a restrictive form of dualistic idealism. It permits one to hold stereotypical and oppressive notions of the self and to act on a false sense of faith.
The BLUE Pill path is attractive to those with concern for protecting the self/ego within the Matrix, but it too often proves to be quite the opposite of what was hoped for when choosing The BLUE Pill.
The RED Pill is the path of the saints and mystics, and wild monks or yogis that reject social conformity and instead seek to enlighten the mind beyond the dualistic dictatorium of the Matrix. The BLUE Pill is that of a simple and uncritical belief, an emotional decision that clings to the illusion of faith
But in saying this, there is no shame in being a gate keeper of society’s morality and compassion, we need these The BLUE Pilled watch dogs to balance the political powers and as reminders of what great sages of times past have given to humanity, we just need to be watchful of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
So which shall it be Freedom of The RED Pill or the security of The BLUE Pill? And remember there is no wrong answer.
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