The Modern Day Dogmas To Be Aware Of
dogma
/ˈdɒɡmə/
noun
a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true."the dogmas of faith"
One of my favourite enlightened masters Osho spoke on this a lot. He spoke on the movement and ever-changing nature of how dogma or the one truth can show up in different aspects of our society and especially around spirituality.
We can go from one dogma of needing to fit in the corporate world and wear and suit and behave in a certain way, to being in the hippy world of wearing hippy clothes and growing our hair long, but if were not aware we are simply going from one set of rules to another set of rules.
Most Masters like Osho, Ram Days, or Jesus had 1 true message of ‘here and now, awaken“ but apart from that their messages always seems contradictory or ever changing and that is because none of them subscribed to dogma, so they would share different pieces of advice to different individuals.
What is right and true for one individual is not true for another. We all have different challenges and different comfort zones. Osho for example would encourage sexually repressed people that they need to break through their shyness and embody their wild sexual nature. To another though who’s really sexually active and perhaps even using something like tantra to hide a sex addition he would probably encourage them to take a look at that and consider what is the real driver and having less sex. In both of these examples its often about getting out of the comfort zone of the ego.
Some people feel really comfortable and easy making sh*t loads of money, others are very shy. Again there’s almost a dogma now that everyone needs to have 20k months or 100k months. For a lot of people this financial freedom is taking them out of their comfort zone and breaking through new limits, but for other people maybe this is helping them hide behind being a natural workaholic or greedy. Maybe some people need to be ok with having less or sharing the resources they make and that’s getting out of their comfort zone.
Dogma is never in the past. Dogma is always the rules that are coming up now - that often are so new and fresh or re-invented that we might not see them.
But this is what we’re being asked to view in the south node in sag. So the sexual and wealth revolution that is booming in the spiritual economy today is great in MANY ways (and I believe SO needed so don’t get me wrong). This is just an example about how we can’t make anything a one size fits all truth or path for everyone to Spiritually Awaken, as it’s simply not.
What dogmas can you see in our society today? What new one size fits all rules that taken out of context can be more harmful than good?
We have a few more months of the south node in sagittarius which is an opportunity to release fixed ideas around there being only one truth and getting sucked into ideas of dogma.