After it's born, a human being will surely die unless it is loved. At the end of our days, eternal being will elude us unless we love unconditionally. Being loved enables us to survive in life. Loving enables us to survive eternally. In the now, we are a self. Before and after the now, we are the soul. The now never changes, but all forms in the now are ever-changing. Forms transition until no longer recognized as being what they once were; simply, they die. When our individual form dies, we are solely the soul. Unlike a self, the soul is eternal. As we are the soul, we are eternal. The now is the manifestation of the soul. The soul loves the now, as the soul loves its manifestations. When we love the now and all its forms, we are the soul. We are eternal being. Wisdom delivers this realization and compassion delivers its actualization. ...
We experience life in reality and as illusions. Reality is what it is whatever it is, beyond description. Describing it precludes us from experiencing it. Descriptions are allusions to illusions....
The son of God is the sun. "I" is the name of God's son. The sun is God's eye. God's eye creates the everchanging, infinite and timeless universe. Looking into God's eye, we can only glimpse the blinding whole of creation. Not to be overwhelmed, we see the whole through the hole of our eye. Our world is created by our hole into the whole....
More than 40 years back, I found myself in a NYC taxi. Though the driver didn't greet me, he didn't seem unfriendly. As he was dressed in clothes from the Indian subcontinent, I assumed he had recently arrived in the States. To know his story, I asked him in mock pidgin English: "You here, long time?" He responded in the King's English: "I have been here 10 years, but I don't know if that is long or short." We laughed. There is nothing to know....