10 Nov The Way Of The Way 198
Love is ineffable, ethereal and yet eternal. When a love relationship concludes, we can only conclude it was never love; as when what was once and is no longer, never was....
09 Nov The Way Of The Way 197
When we feel loved only by those with whom we are close, we are closed to others. When we feel everyone loves us, we are open and free. When we realize everyone is God, we feel everyone loves us; if not now, then later....
08 Nov The Way Of The Way 196
Heaven is real, hell an illusion. In heaven are those who realize everything is an expression of God. In hell are those whose mind tells them otherwise....
07 Nov The Way Of The Way 195
Those who love certain people but not all people are sentimental. Those who love everyone are practical....
06 Nov Lao Tzu 2
"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough." It's easy to satisfy our needs and impossible to satisfy our desires, but temporarily....
06 Nov Haiku 20
Every day the sun is rising and setting simultaneously and continuously....
04 Nov The Way Of The Way 194
Encapsulated, raw intelligence is characterized by one's abilities in matters of conceptual thinking, memory, compiling and quickly analyzing information and creativity. However, the truly intelligent are those who have the ability to learn something from virtually anyone, magnifying their intelligence by using the intelligence of others. This is wisdom, a more powerful ability than raw intelligence....
03 Nov Every-Thing Is Not A Thing, It’s Interdependent
My arms and legs work well together but I wonder whether they know each other exists. With little self-awareness, each likely feels it has an independent existence. If they knew who they were they would quickly realize that they are not independent things; they are interdependent as they couldn't exit without everything else to which they're part of and connected. Maybe when I think of who I am I'm thinking the way my arms and legs are thinking, with little self-awareness. Upon awakening, it's clear I only exist as one with everything....
01 Nov Homophone 1
Balabusta is a Yiddish word derived from the term for a woman who is "master of the house." Balabusta is pronounced as she would often be described: ballbuster....
31 Oct What The Psilocybin Said
It was 1971, Victor was 20, sitting on a futon and waiting for the journey to begin, to see what the psilocybin mushrooms had to say. As his eyes looked up, a painting on the wall was melting, colors spilling beyond its frame, on the wall, covering the floor; brilliant colors bubbling and burping. Then, Victor noticed he was elevated six to ten inches above the futon; weightlessness; the peace beyond description. After, he directed the paint colors to dance and form paintings. A profound journey. While the journey was wonderful in and of itself, it beckoned explanation beyond a write-off as simply an hallucination where the abstract and surreal supplant the realistic. However, only recently, did the message from the psilocybin vision dawn on me: everything is one thing, forever-changing; being one with everything is the ultimate peace to which our mind is the greatest impediment; and, ultimately, when we are one with everything, we create the universe. The paint overflowing its canvas implies that what we see in the realistic world as discrete, self-contained things is actually one continuous, interconnected, interdependent, ever-changing thing; the everything. However, our mind convinces us that the universe is made of discrete things. The mind does this so that we view the mind itself as discrete; different from other minds and, as such, it needs to be protected from the others. The mind feels protected and thrives when we pay it attention and take it seriously. Maybe our mind has convinced us of other falsehoods; e.g., who we are. The weightlessness implies that discrete things cannot be differentiated by weight, as all things are equally weightless. In that sense, all things are one. The peace that accompanies weightlessness is the peace of being one with everything. In a world where everything is continuous, interconnected, interdependent and equal, everything is one. Victor directing the paint colors to dance and form paintings implies that when we are one with everything the world is our creation as are our interpretations of psilocybin visions....