Preference vs Acceptance or Buddhism vs Abraham & Bashar

Buddhism suggests the aim of enlightenment is to do away with preference, wanting, desire, and come into oneness with what is, but channels like Abraham and Bashar seem to contradict that, saying the point of existence is to “follow your excitement” and “fine tune your vortex through preference.”

How can one come to a place of acceptance when one has preferences; one situation over another; one lover over another; one body over another?

Well we have preference. You can not deny that. Would you prefer being smeared with feces to being clean? Answer truthfully. Can you say it does not matter either way?

Okay, so preferences (seem to) exist. But what is it that has preference? Is it the concept I have of my self, or is it my Self itself?

Obviously it is the concept of the self, for only the concept of the self can hold a concept such as cleanliness, or warmth, or even happiness. All concepts stem from the concept of the self, and the point of all spiritual practice is to transcend the concept of the self and arrive at the true essence of Self; you as you are in oneness with God. Only then is the concept of self denied, for only there (in oneness with God) is all-that-is found.

So how do we get there?

One practice is to deny preference and wanting and desire. Another practice is to fine tune preference and wanting and desire. Both are methods for becoming more self aware. You see. Both the channels and Buddhists can be right. Because it’s really about self awareness. And the more self aware we become, the more we realize that the self we are aware of, the concept of self we think we are, can not be the true Self. I could not have been put on this world to desire a Maserati, just as I could not have been put on this world to desire not to have a Maserati, or to be at peace with being smeared with feces. I could not have been put on this world for any purpose, as a matter of fact, because all purpose presupposes the necessity for something to be done, and if this were in fact the Real world, then all things would have be done. So I was not put on this world at all. I simply think I was put on this world, when in fact, I Am this world, this universe, this moment.

The truth is, I can not desire to be more than I am, because I am already all that is. The part that desires more is only a construct of the concept of my self which I hold onto.

In the end, the loss of self is the final key. When we can not know who we are, or what we are doing here, or what we are meant to do--when we can wander through the garden, eating when hungry, sleeping when tired, being at peace because nothing but peace is Real, then we are living in the truth of existence.

But must this come at the cost of all that we think we are? Must we lose our personality, our loved ones, our possessions?

Nothing need be lost. Only everything need be let go.