31 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Wow

God is everchanging and eternal; a way not going away.   In the Hebrew Bible, YHWH is the name of God. In Paleo-Hebrew, the written text only included consonants and the reader would supply the vowels during reading. This oral tradition was passed down through generations, but was eventually lost. Today, there is no consensus as to how to pronounce YHWH. However, the nature of God reveals a possible pronunciation of God's name.   God self-identifies as: "I am who I am" or "I will be what I will be". God is manifested in the now as a tangible "who" and outside the now as an unspecified "what". Taken together:  "I am what I am." Acronym: IAWIA IAWIA can be pronounced two ways. As "I why" wherein the first of two consecutive vowels is voiced and the second vowel is silent. Or as "a way" wherein the second vowel is voiced and the first vowel is silent. With both pronunciations, one vowel is voiced and the other silent. God is the manifested and the unmanifested. "I why" or, in common speech, "why do I exist?" I am what I am, I exist because I exist. There are no reasons or explanations, as all there is is is. God is "a way"; an everchanging path, being rather than a discrete being.   "a way" is akin to the Taoist concept of Tao (the Way). The Way is ultimate reality; the seen and unseen; the source of all being; the eternally transitioning; ineffable, beyond human comprehension.   "a way" is also a possible pronunciation of YHWH. "a way" is the sound of breathing (inhale "a", exhale "way"). Likewise, “soooo” is the sound of inhaling and “hmmmmm” is the sound of exhaling. Together, they form the word “Soham”, meaning “I am” in Sanskrit. Every breath of life recalls the name of God....

29 Oct

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Nobody is getting out of here alive, but those who know the way. The way is love. Love connects who we are in the play of life, an expression of the soul, to what we are before and after the play, the soul....

28 Oct

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In light of our inevitable death and countless potential disasters, everyday problems aren't as significant as our mind makes them....

24 Oct

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I don't love what I like more than other things. If I did, I would not love every thing. ...

12 Oct

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Stress is a selfish state of mind. Stress happens when the self takes control of the mind. The remedy is freeing the mind from the self.   The etymology of the word "mind" is "memory". Remembering what the universe is can free us from the shackles of stress.   The etymology of the word "universe" literally means "turned into one". All things are temporarily things in the now, but eternally one thing: the universe. Who we are is a self. What we are is the universe. When we only perceive being a self, we suffer selfish states such as stress. Remembering we are the universe, we have no stress.   Feeling great and being stressed are mutually exclusive states of mind. When we feel great, we cannot be stressed. When we are grateful, we are "great-full" with no space for stress. We are grateful when we remember we are lucky. However stressful our circumstances, we are lucky they are not worse. The word "hap" means luck. The root of happiness is remembering we are lucky. When we are happy, we cannot be stressed.   Life is a play. For the actors in the play, it's a tragedy; good times, bad times, meaningful relationships here and there, but everyone dies at the end. For the audience, it's a comedy; watching actors take their roles seriously, though it's only a play. When we identify as the self, we are the actors. The audience is Gods. When we remember we are Gods, we are also the audience. As Homer once said, near the home of the Gods, Mount Olympus, there is a deafening sound of the Gods laughing. The Gods are laughing at us. When we die, we leave the play and join our fellow Gods in the audience. Remembering we are both the actors and the Gods, we can laugh at our selves. When laughing, we are not stressed.   Much stress is a function of things from the past. These things are karma: our intentions, actions and consequences of past lives. Karma affects how we experience the now. Our past lives are not lives we had before this life. Our past lives are passed days of our life. Each day is not a day in a life but a life in a day. We accumulate much karma over our passed lives. The people we were in passed lives are illusions. Our memories of them are just a dream; yet, the self tells us otherwise. When we don't believe the self-stories about the past, we remember we are only the person we are right now. Karma of the past is passed and we cannot be stressed in the now.   The self has many faces or emotions, like stress. The self's emotions control our mind. To escape the self we need to calm the self with unconditional love. Unconditional love comes only from the soul. When we love unconditionally, we are the soul. The soul is never stressed....