01 May Way Of Way 128
Can we take seriously explanations of the past as no one can predict the future?...
29 Apr Confucius 1
"If a man gives no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." Until it is obvious, it is difficult to see things we haven't first imagined. Imagining dangerous scenarios allows us to see and avoid them before they become reality. While these imaginings are stressful, they are less stressful than experiencing them....
28 Apr Governments
Governments often sing and dance to different music. They sing of doing wonderful things for mankind as they dance on people's bodies....
27 Apr Eye idol, 3700 – 3500 B.C., Tell Brak, Levant
This 5500 year old female figure comes from the time before the dawn of the written word. Much has changed since then but perhaps men have not. The figure is depicted with eyes, nose, breasts and a vagina; but no mouth or ears. Perhaps that's how most men like their women. More seriously, what this apparently sacred object (it is referred to as an "idol") means is open to interpretation. Eye idols are almost invariably depicted with eyes only; no mouth, nose or other body parts. Perhaps that's the nature of a presumably all-knowing deity, they observe and do not speak. As Lao Tzu observed more than 3000 years later: “He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak." ...
25 Apr The Burning Bush Is The Tree Of Life
In the Bible, God appears to Moses in the form of an eternally burning bush. The bush however is not burning. As its flames are not devouring the branches, the flames must be light, not fire. The light however appears as fire, our mind perceiving it based on our past experiences where light in a bush can only be fire. The mind's preconceptions blind us from seeing things as they are. The burning bush, as the entire universe, is a manifestation of God. Moreover, the bush metaphorically reveals the nature of the universe: ever-changing (flames) and eternal (not burning). The light that appears as flames represents wisdom (Proverbs 3.18). The light unveils the bush, the eternal soul, from darkness. The bush is seneh, a bramble, a rough prickly shrub which bears raspberries, blackberries or dewberries. As a prickly shrub with light abounding, the bush's thorns are "the fiery ever-turning sword" that guards the path to the Tree of Life (Genesis 3.24). The path leads to the soul's soul, the Tree's fruit. Those who can see the fiery ever-turning sword as light and thorns can, without fear of burning or hurting, partake of the fruit to sustain themselves (Book of Enoch) as they become one with the soul's soul. When we understand the burning bush, we understand the universe; ever-changing and eternal. Then, we can find the soul's soul and be one with everything forever. In the image of God, the burning bush, is the Tree of Life. When we dispense with the mind, its preconceived notions and the fears they engender, we can see the universe as it is and ultimately connect as one with God....
25 Apr Way Of Way 126
Buddha opened his eyes and was able to see the universe as it is. Had Buddha been studying Buddhism, he would have seen many things through his mind which would have precluded him seeing the universe as it is....
24 Apr Way Of Way 124
Babies see the world as it is, always new as it is everchanging, because they don't remember what they see....
23 Apr Robin S. Sharma
"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master." The mind is a wonderful servant when we use it to learn from our past experiences, successes and failures to make good choices going forward. However, the mind is a terrible master when it creates stories and meanings that frame our experience of the present. Our stories are like a prison, not allowing us to experience the present as it is. Prison guards, however friendly, rule over us....
21 Apr Way Of Way 16
Every night we die and every morning we are born anew. Thus, every day is our first and last day of life. As it's our first day, everything is fascinating. As it's our last day, we appreciate everything....
19 Apr Stars
The size of a star is a function of how distant it is. Stars in the Milky Way seem tiny from Earth but are unimaginably huge up close. Popular stars who are far from our real lives seem huge but aren't bigger than us up close. The popular stars who think their big are ridiculously funny in the context of real stars....