Passion For Life

In brief, what I see now is to be spoken. The table was turned. In a flash the true creator was killed and replaced instantly by a new God-one who serves man!  A Magic Being was imagined to give us what we want when we want it in a story in linear time. The idea was, “You are gonna love this God!” Temples and rituals came in fashion as evidence this was a real, important trend to be followed by good people.

And it has not worked to anyone’s satisfaction. In fact, ever since, life for humans has been a struggle with ever-increasing difficulties. Thinking had  become so popular, though, it could not be stopped from doing that. An observer had been invented inside the brains of all children. Thinking took over and ever since thinking is busy thinking about itself and making records of itself to put in museums and libraries and call it knowledge. Thinking can put on a God mask and tell everybody lies. It invents theories to describe what it desires in place of what is. Thinkers take turns and a few are noticed and asked to come back. Thinking invented art, religion, science, nationalism, measurement, and comparison. Thinking is like a clever. It divides what is indivisible. It cuts things apart to make more things. Real quick, nobody can tell anymore what is, as if it once was and is not anymore. It hurts. The pain can be received as a call to stop what one is doing. Those who hear the call head back home, without direction, to check to see how things are there if anything is left to check on and find it all just fine and dandy so do not want anybody to find them and take them away again.  But they do feel an urge to sneak back to see if anyone there is about ready to go back home they can encourage with a snack and a map. The map mentioned is only a beginning sketch to be discarded as soon as possible once there is enough confidence that the way is obvious. All travelers, suddenly, will clearly realize “As I am” in a  silence that has nothing to do with the absence of sounds. Therein lies treasure.

 On Death

Consider for a bit the question:  What is death? 

As a human I say that it is death that matters to someone the most. We are told we die. We attend a funeral. We look upon a dead body. We read stories where death happens. We ask others and receive confirmation that we will die.  We recognize signs of aging in older people. We must wonder, at least a little, were we born to die? And then wonder what that question means and where from did it come to us to ask it. All these things mentioned so far can come to people who have no education formally and who never have read a book or written one. People who have no concept of who might be better than who nor think of themselves as smart have these experiences. Maybe this means these experiences are more trustworthy than all of that wordiness.

Now, suppose someone has experienced failure and its pain. Is that a form of death? Why not? It is a sharp experience of an ending of something important to that individual. It is certainly unwanted. It is at least kin to death. It is possible to turn a corner mentally here, at this point, and ask: Is death friendly? Does life have meaning if seen as separate from death? It is not that life is death but that it is inseparable from it. Truth is life-death. Could it be we are more than a little opposed to an ending. Not really opposed to either death or failure. Ending frightens because the unknown frightens. What is the cause of the fear of the unknown? It’s opposite…the known…is monotony. The unknown holds mystery and that is exciting. Why fear it?

 One who has been called a master has said, “The Way Out Is Within.” 

It caused me to think how it is with the computer explosion. The whole happening depends upon a tiny chip. The tinier the better…the more the power…the more can be discovered, uncovered, and understood. The deeper and wider go its influences. 

Where I live people worship the computer now more than any other resource by far. Surely it is so that we show our dedication openly by what it is that we most covet. By what we give most attention to. That is our god. How we see it as essential to our lives is astounding and growing, growing, growing. Who are we? We worship what was made by human hands. Ironically, it is going to lead us back home after much, much suffering just as has always been our destiny…unless… we see in time …less is more. Nothing is everything. The importance of every grain of sand. Beauty is found in the pointless. Unless we love.

Beauty occurs when there is no separate self around. Beauty is pointless. The pointless is beautiful. It is recommended that one do and do often as many pointless activities as one can manage. In that way can it be possible to discover the value in the beautiful. It probably is so that some scientists will see evidence to show the Universe is coming apart gradually but some think it is, actually, self -creative.

 

Beauty probably plays a big part in that aspect.

 

Thinking In Its Proper Place

When you see, instantly you know what action to take. There is no choice to make. It is certain. It is done. 

Thinking can build a telescope and a rocket ship to the stars and account for money earned, saved and spent. And it can serve all all other mechanical operations it invents. But if you use thinking to guide your life psychologically from within what your life was soon will become a mechanical process. It is to be walking dead. There will be no creativity. There will be no love. You will be nagged by a recurring worry that some important thing is missing and you will not know what is lost. Like a machine you will repeat the same behaviors expecting different results so long as you shall happen to live. You will buy insurance, for example, expecting good health. You will invest money expecting to enjoy your old age. You will court the opposite sex and expect to find love. But love and enjoyment will stay away. Thinking is quite limited. Science makes many technological advances but always leaves many more to be explored. Thinking is quite limited. Science solves problems but creates many more. The missing ingredient in societies today is something that puts thinking in its proper place and leads a free human being on a living journey filled with love and peace and enjoyment and true abundance. It requires no naming and no religion and only is found by free people not being controlled by thought. Thinking is over-rated and quite limited. What is beyond it is unlimited.

Follow a butterfly. Imagine what the caterpillar realized when its cocoon opened.

 If there is a profound change now

the future will be new.

 BEYOND THINKING

Perhaps something which is very complex can be spoken simply. Once upon a time people on Planet Earth acted immediately in the now. Almost exclusively. Then thinking was introduced. At first on a limited basis. It grew rapidly. Without knowing it, people crossed a line into a world where thinking dominates action. Life changed.

Thinking is built on two things. Memory of a past which anticipates a future. The past and the future are its foundation, in other words. “I have been this I will be that.” I ate strawberries in the past and I want to eat them again. Question that goes unasked is: who is it says I ate strawberries and desire to eat them again? That, whatever it is, is now in charge of your life and is going to run it from now on is why it is important to ask that question. What is it? From where did it come? How real is it? How reliable? It may seem that the one who thinks is who I am but is it so? “I am” just might be something that was here before thinking began to predominate.

A most influential book in the field of psychology was published in the 1970’s. It definitely and brazenly declared a breakdown of the bi-cameral mind (brain) occurred centuries earlier and was the dawn of consciousness for human beings. People were at that time freed from being controlled by God. And yet, people who have had extreme  difficulty adjusting to the world of man in recent times, through serious psychic exploration, have become aware, at least to an extent, of a fact that all time is in the present moment and, therefore, effective action is always clear and instant. These ones claim their life has shifted from a difficult one to a thoroughly enjoyable one for which change they cannot find sufficient words to express extreme gratitude. And they uniformly declare for them “real” consciousness arose with the reduction in the value of a separate self rather than an elevation of its importance. The consciousness they speak of includes the whole world or the big picture. 

No attempt will be here made to go any further on the matter since the writer knows only those who are truly interested will go to the trouble to find for themselves what the author is discussing. All depends on you finally. If you find you will not bother to search for the psychology book and read it as a beginning you are not ready for the challenge. Perhaps at a later time you will be moved to dig for answers if the question sufficiently pressures you to do so. The problems associated with thinking as described here cannot, of course, be resolved by more thinking in the same dimension. Albert Einstein spoke that and realized that to continue to do the same thing expecting a different result is insanity. That is why this dialog ends here.