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Ascended Master Lord Lanto through Kim Michaels, June 7, 2025. This dictation was given the conference in Seoul, South Korea: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.

I AM the Ascended Master Lord Lanto. My aim here is to give you the perspective of the Second Ray upon Christhood. The Second Ray is often associated with wisdom, and there are people who think that when you attain Christhood, you will know everything, you will have the answer to every question. As we have explained, that is not a correct view. There are questions that can be formulated not just by the dualistic mind, but even by the linear mind, that even the Christ cannot answer, for they have no answers.

You see, the linear mind wants to create a world view that the world is linear. You see this in religions. God created the world in seven days, well, strictly speaking, six, and then for some reason this Almighty God had to rest on the seventh day. You see it in science. Everything started with the Big Bang. What was before the Big Bang? Well, let us not talk about that. Everything progresses, supposedly, in this linear fashion where you can isolate a particular effect that is the result of a particular cause, and before that another cause, and before that another cause. You see how the linear mind wants to isolate a chain of one cause leading to one effect, leading to another cause and so forth.

The dualistic mind on top of the linear mind

Now, this is the linear mind. On top of that comes the dualistic mind, which takes the linear world view and imposes a value judgment upon it. You can now create a further division, not just between cause and effect, a neutral cause leading to a neutral effect, but something that is right and wrong. You can now go back in time through this cause and effect chain and say: Way back in the past, in that Garden of Eden, there was a cause that happened that should not have happened and therefore, everything has been on the wrong track since then that relates to humankind on Earth. Therefore, we need to use religion to restore what has gone wrong. Or we need to use communism to restore what has gone wrong. Or we need to use science to restore what has gone wrong. Or we need to use artificial intelligence to restore what has gone wrong.

You see, something went wrong, but this can only be thought up by a mind that thinks in isolated causes leading to isolated effects. What did the Buddha teach 2,500 years ago? Interdependent originations. In the interdependent originations, can you isolate a single cause? Nay. What is the single cause in a universe of interdependent originations? It is the whole. The entire universe is the single cause and the entire universe is the single effect. You cannot single out any single cause or any single effect. For it all moves as one interdependent whole.

It is a long process to fathom this, to integrate this. When you begin to grasp this, you see how the entire world view that most people are trapped in is out of touch with reality. You see how the world is searching, always searching for some solution that will remove the problems, that will remove what has gone wrong, that will remove the suffering. You begin to see that this quest for some ultimate solution, some ultimate explanation, some ultimate understanding, some ultimate wisdom, that it is this quest that creates the suffering, that sustains the suffering, and this quest can never end the suffering.

Christhood cannot be controlled by the mind

What have we, in a sense, been trying to explain to you now for many years? The driving force for spiritual growth is not the linear mind, but the intuitive mind. You are not thinking your way to a higher state of consciousness. You are tuning in to a higher state of consciousness. You see that when people first hear about the concept of Christhood, their thinking minds, their linear minds, their analytical minds begins to do what that mind always does. It says: “Ah, give me some teachings about Christhood, tell me the characteristics, break it down into smaller units, break it down to an ultimate cause so I can grasp it, so I can wrap my mind around it, so I can understand it, so I can categorize and label it and put it into my database so I have Christhood under control.”

You see, you cannot think your way to Christhood. You can tune in to the Christ mind, but the Christ mind is beyond the thinking mind. There are many who think, and again we are not blaming anyone, it is inevitable given the conditions on Earth, but there are many who think that they can think their way to being the Christ. They often try to use our teachings to define the characteristics of Christhood, and they think that if they can live up to these conditions with the outer mind, then they will be the Christ.

The Christ is not a matter of thinking; it is a matter of being. It is not “to think or not to think,” it is “to be or not to be.” This, of course, is not an answer that the linear mind likes, because what does it mean to be or not to be? Break it down for me, give me something I can grasp. You see, in being or non-being there is nothing to understand. You cannot think your way into being. You can either be or you cannot be.

The ego always wants a rule

This does not mean that being the Christ or not being the Christ is this one momentous decision or one momentous event, as some people want to portray it—instant enlightenment. It is a process of many, many individual choices, but the choice is to in everyday situations choose to reach for something beyond the outer mind, the thinking mind, or even the feeling mind, or even the identity mind. For when I say the thinking mind, the linear mind, this actually involves all of the subconscious selves at the emotional, mental and identity level, because they are also linear, they want to have a rule. The ego does not want to be wrong, so the ego says: Give me a rule so that if I follow that rule I am never wrong. That is not Christhood.

Take wisdom. The ego wants us to define what wisdom is. The ego would love the ascended masters to give forth one book, it can even be a thick book, but give forth one book and say: This contains all the wisdom you need to know. The ego will say: “Well, if I learn this book by heart, if I know all that is in it, then I can never be wrong.” The ego is per definition wrong, because the ego is not in oneness. Wisdom that is just acquired from without, meaning knowledge that is acquired from without and now you think this is wisdom, this is not Christhood.

You cannot define a curriculum, a book, and say if you know this, you are the Christ. Why not? Because think about everyday life, just think about everyday life. Imagine yourself getting up in the morning, you may interact with your family members, you now leave the house, you may meet people in the bus or the train or the subway, you get to work, you are interacting with people. Could you sit there in the morning while you are eating breakfast and define everything that is going to happen to you during the day? Could you do that ahead of time and then you would know that your day is going to unfold exactly the way you predicted it?

Now you see, there are scientists who would say that: Yes, theoretically you could. If you had enough knowledge of the conditions, then you could predict everything that was going to happen. This is not realistic, as there are now other scientists who are beginning to realize. You can see in your daily life, how it would be impossible to predict every situation.

Interdependent originations in everyday life

What is it actually you are facing in your daily life? I know that when we talk about this concept of the interdependent originations, it may seem somewhat theoretical, up there, somewhat vague, somewhat abstract. What are you facing in your everyday life by interacting with the people you interact with? Do you know what that person is going to say to you? When you walk down the street and there is another person, are they going to frown at you or smile at you? What exactly is going to happen to you during the day? What is it you are facing in your everyday life? The interdependent originations.

You are getting up in the morning and your day is an interaction with other people and situations that cannot be predicted. They have no fixed outcome. They are affecting you, what you do affects them. Is this not interdependence? You see, you could not break down everything that could possibly happen during your day and predict it and control it. Therefore, what good would it do you to know everything before you started your day? You still could not predict what this person is going to do or say, what that person is going to do or say.

What is true wisdom, Christ-based wisdom? It is that you are able to respond to every situation, depending on how that situation unfolds. You see again, the ego will say, Christhood should mean that I can know exactly what is the right way to behave in every situation. Give me a rule, a fixed rule that says: “If I treat every person I meet like this, I will be right. I will do the right thing.” But you see, every person is different, every situation is different. How can you treat them all the same?

Responding to every situation spontaneously

What is the wisdom of the Christ mind? It is that you intuitively tune in to the Christ mind in every situation, and use it almost spontaneously. When you really tune in and get momentum on using the Christ mind, it is spontaneous. You treat that situation in the best possible way. This does not mean that every situation will work out according to some perfect standard. It just means that here is a situation, there are certain parameters. We might say that in every situation, there is a set of interdependent factors that are affecting the situation. You may not know this with the outer mind. In fact, in most cases, you do not know with the outer mind. Let us say, just to make it simple, even though it is rarely that simple, let us say there are five possible outcomes of a situation where you meet a person at work and you have to interact with them. Five possible outcomes.

Now, there may be one outcome that is not very desirable, where you fail to communicate, fail to reach some kind of result, maybe even end up in a conflict. There may be other outcomes that are better, and there may be one that is the best possible in the situation. What does it mean to be in tune with the Christ mind in that situation? It means that, without knowing it with the outer mind, you choose what leads to the highest possible outcome. You see, that outcome is dependent on the situation.

Now you could, as many people do, as many spiritual and religious people do, you could step back and say: “Oh, but there should be a highest possible outcome, an outcome that was always right.” You see, you are on an unnatural planet. We have told you this now for several years. One of the conclusions that you can draw based on this teaching is: On an unnatural planet, there is no highest outcome, there is no ideal outcome, so, what do you see?

You see that the ego has this drive to compensate for the loss of connection. It wants to manifest ultimate security. The idea that there should be a highest possible outcome appeals to the ego. Where does it come from? From the fallen beings, of course. For the Christ mind, there is no highest possible outcome. There is just a certain scale where there could be a lower and a higher outcome, and the Christ always seeks to help people reach the highest possible, given the situation, the interdependent originations of the situation.

You take one situation where you are at work, you meet a new person that you have not interacted with before. If you are intuitively attuned to the Christ mind, you will act in a way that leads to the highest possible outcome in that situation. Now, this means that maybe some days or weeks later you interact with the same person again and now you are starting at a higher outcome at a higher point than you did in your first interaction. If you are again attuned with the Christ mind, you can again lead to a higher outcome and you may gradually build a better and better relationship with that person. If you are not attuned to the higher outcome, then it goes the other way and you may gradually build a downward spiral with that person.

The practical realism of the Christ mind

You see again, the ego wants to project that Christhood, wisdom, the wisdom of Christ, is always knowing the ideal outcome, but the Christ mind is realistic. The Christ mind does not look for the ideal outcome. It looks for how to take a particular situation with the interdependent parameters of that situation and raise it to the next level up, and then from there raise it up. This is what becomes the River of Life. So many people, when they first hear about Christhood, their egos color the concept of Christhood and say: “Ah, this is what will give me the ultimate wisdom of how to make every situation ideal, how I can always be in control of every situation, how I can always get what I want.” You see, the Christ does not want to get what it wants. Why? Because the Christ needs nothing from the matter world.

The Christ mind, as we have said, is beyond the matter world. It needs no specific outcome. The Christ mind is not looking at an outer situation, saying: Here is the ideal outcome and if these five people just do what I tell them to do, we will have the ideal physical outcome. The Christ mind, in a sense you could say, does not care about the physical outcome. The Christ mind looks at those five people in that situation of interdependent originations and it only wants to lift all of them up from their current level of consciousness to the next step up. The Christ is always seeking to raise people, not physical conditions.

This, of course, is not what the business world wants to hear, because they want to say: “Ah, but if we have the Christ mind, we should be able to generate the highest profit for our company.” Does the Christ mind care about profits? Of course not. It cares about the people who are part of the company, because for the Christ mind, the ultimate asset is people, or rather minds. The Christ always seeks to raise the minds of all people.

In contrast, what does the mind of anti-christ, the fallen beings, what do they want? They want to control all people. There are certainly some students who hear about the concept of Christhood and they think that becoming the Christ means you surrender yourself, your will, to the Christ mind, and now you are like a marionette where the Christ mind tells you what to do. The Christ mind does not want to tell you what to do. It wants you to make the highest choice in a particular situation that will take you to the next step up in consciousness.

The fallen beings, in contrast, they want to control their situation, and they think they can only control their situation by controlling all other people. What does a dictator want: To control all the people in its sphere of influence. Ideally it wants to control all people on Earth if it could, but that cannot be done because of the size and the complexity of the Earth and because of the interdependent originations.

Interdependent originations cannot be controlled

Perhaps this is a topic for some of you to ponder. How could you ever control anything, given the interdependent originations? You see that the fallen beings are using the linear mind to gain control. They want to say: “Here are the initial conditions, here are the laws that guide the unfoldment of the universe. If we know all of this, we can predict the outcome, and if we can predict the outcome, we can control it. If we can change the initial conditions a little bit, if we can change some of the parameters and the laws, we can control the outcome.” The fallen beings believe that if they can control the minds of all people on Earth, they can control the outcome on Earth. You see, the interdependent originations makes this impossible. You could not even control the minds of all people on Earth, but the Earth is not an isolated unit floating in space.

The Earth is being pulled up by all of the other planets that are in an upward spiral in this unascended sphere, and the entire unascended sphere is being pulled up by the ascended spheres before it. Nothing can control these interdependent originations. You can have the illusion for a time on an unnatural planet that you can gain control, but it is an illusion. It will always be an illusion.

The rest of this dictation, along with an invocation based on the dictation, is found in the book: Being the Living Christ in everyday life.