02 Nov The Enlightened: Eternal Being
In the now, every thing is what it is whatever it is. Every thing, before and after the now, is the soul. Before our birth and after our death, our sole identity is the soul. Upon birth, we transition from being one with everything, the soul, to becoming a unique manifestation or expression of the soul; a seemingly independent entity. To sustain our independent existence, we develop a self; a sense of being apart and separate from every thing that is not our self. The purpose of the self is to provide us with our needs of food, shelter, security and health. However, the self also engenders desires that become indistinguishable from our needs, putting us in an endless cycle; needs/desires to temporary satisfactions to needs/desires. Clearly, the self demands much of our attention. Alternatively, our soul identity has us living a life of wisdom and compassion; wisdom, as we experience life not solely from the perspective of our self, but through the perspectives of the infinite manifestations of the soul; compassion, as we love and treat all that is not our self as we love and treat our self. In the transition to life, we initially remember our identity as the soul as we in turn develop our identity as the self. In childhood, our soul identity embraces magical (animist) thinking as we feel every thing has a spirit within it that can be conjured for our benefit through our living harmoniously with its spirit. However, over time, as we are educated and socialized, our self becomes our primary identity. While we are both self and soul identity in various proportions, many of us become oblivious of our soul identity. Ultimately, no one is getting out of here alive. Our bodily death coincides with the demise of our self identity. However, before we complete our transition from physical death to our essentialness, the soul; if our soul identity is our primary identity, we realize we are an eternal being. ...
01 Nov Fountainheads Of Love
Love from the self and love from the soul. Each love in life plays a role. Love from the soul connects us to all. Love from the self helps us grow tall. Love is love, it all feels the same both from places that sound alike in name. Love from the soul comes from the whole Love from the self comes from the hole....
31 Oct Way Of Way 145
Love expressed by the soul is unconditional, unlike love expressed by the self which is conditional. Love from soul is gold, while love from the self is fool's gold. A simple acid test can determine whether love comes from the soul or the self. The test is how do we feel when someone we love engages sexually with someone else. If our love is from the soul, we are happy for them and for whomever they were intimate, as how can we not be happy with the thought of people enjoying themselves. If our love issues from the self, we are angry, jealous, sad or have other unpleasant states of mind....
24 Oct Way Of Way 146
Love is love. From where it issues is of little immediate matter as love is love. However, over time, love that flows from the self is temporary; at times running dry as it transitions into other emotional expressions. Love that flows from the soul is eternal, as the only emotional expression of the soul is love. Moreover, love from the self is conditional, while love from the soul is unconditional. Love from the self is proclaimed with "I love you." Love from the soul is expressed as "We love you." "We" are the gods. Those who don't recognize everyone is god cannot love unconditionally....
22 Oct IAWIA
"I am what I am." -- God, Exodus 3:14, The Bible One day, as Moses was tending his flock he encountered a "burning bush" whose flames were not devouring its branches. The burning bush was the manifestation of God; everchanging and eternal. When Moses asked God: "What is your name?", God said (depending on translation): "I am who I am" or "I will be what I will be". In the now, God is a "who". In the time after (and presumably before) the now, God is a "what". Encapsulating all times, we can paraphrase God: "I am what I am". In the now, God is a nameless "who", implying God is not one person/thing or another but every thing. As "what", God is an unspecified transcendental potential of infinite manifestations. God also self-identifies as "I am"; implying God is being, not a being. God is flow of the Everything. IAWIA Acronyms: "I WHY" (IA-WIA, first vowel pronounced and second vowel silent). "A-WAY" (first vowel silent and second vowel pronounced). I WHY Why do I exist? Or, more broadly, why does the universe exist? Reasons/explanations imply cause and effect which in turn imply the universe is comprised of many independent things. However, all things are interdependent, as the "universe" is "all things turned into one". Reasons/explanations are as illusionary as the independence of things. Simply, the universe just is. A WAY The written word for God is YHWH which may be pronounced as "A WAY". "A WAY" can be likened to the Tao ("the Way"). As the Way, YHWH is the underlying natural order of the universe, an eternal and ineffable force that flows through all things. YHWH is a nameless cosmic force that binds and releases all things; the energy of action and existence. Aligning oneself with the "A WAY", one realizes harmony and balance; as all the pieces of the universe come together as one peace....
18 Oct The Palestinian/Israeli War
I hear the stories, each told in a different light. My mind struggles to comprehend, as the stories clash and ignite. I long to see the truth, but the lights are too bright. In the heat from the many lights, I await the cool night where distant stars guide the way and there is no wrong or right....