The Ultimate Self (US) is the eternal flow from before the now, to the now and after the now.
In the now, the Ultimate Self is manifested as the temporary Individual Self (IS).
In the now, US IS.
Kotodama is a Japanese term that originates from Shinto, Japan’s animist religion.
Kotodama broadly translates as “the soul of words” or “spirit of speech. It is a belief that words and language hold a mystical power and that can influence the physical and spiritual realms.
Words and sounds are the DNA of communication which, like love, connects us all.
Homophones, homographs, homonyms, heteronyms, definitions, and etymologies provide insights into the nature of divine consciousness or ultimate reality.
Puns are more insightful than pundits.
The Ultimate Self (US) is the eternal flow from before the now, to the now and after the now.
In the now, the Ultimate Self is manifested as the temporary Individual Self (IS).
In the now, US IS.
When you recognize the soul,
two are too and two is one:
“an other” is “another”
“every thing” is “everything”
“in sight” is “insight”
“every where” is “everywhere”
“all ways” are “always”.
Each thing, a finite “I” to itself.
The universe is infinite I’s.
Letting go the possessive apostrophe, the “I’s” are “is”; a flow, not things.
U are who U are, a self in various roles in the play of life.
The self is an experience of roles, circumstances and related emotional reactions.
As the self inevitably dies, the play is a tragedy.
U are what U are, the soul in the audience.
As the play is the manifestation of the soul, the soul’s sole emotion is love.
As the soul is forever laughing at the self taking itself seriously, the play is a comedy.
U are double U (W), self and soul.
The play of life unfolds in the now.
As the now is ever-changing, your experience of the now is not real; just a memory. Hence, in the now, U are nothing (O).
Knowing who and what U are, the play of life is WOW.
Each language has different sounds for words that identify the same thing.
However, there are certain sounds that carry the same meaning across many unrelated languages.
This is called “sound symbolism” or “phono-semantics”.
These sounds are a visceral reaction.
For example, the sound made upon coming to an obvious realization (“ah”) and the sound of laughing (“ha”) at ourselves for not realizing it earlier.
Interestingly, ah and ha are anadromes (words or phrases that spell different words or phrases backward). Simply looking at the same thing from opposite perspectives is the essence of wisdom.
Another example is “wow”. “Wow” is a sound we make when something captivates, astonishes, or delights us.
The sound of “wow” (broadly, an expression of love) is made by puckering our lips as when making a kiss.
Sounds reflecting wisdom and love are primordial.
The words “new” and “now” look similar, for they describe the same thing.
New is when something is unlike anything in the past. That’s the experience of being in the now.
The mystical experience is realizing every thing is shrouded in mist and we are the light beyond the mist.
“No know” is the way to “know no”.
When we know that we know nothing, we can come to know nothing; the essence of every thing.
The etymology of “universe” is “turned into one.”
The universe is not an infinite number of unique things. It is all things turned into one.
What we think are separate and independent things is an illusion.
As these illusions are everchanging, they cannot be described to reveal their reality; except with one (uni) verse: it is what it is whatever it is.
“Soooo” is the sound of inhaling.
“Hmmmm” is the sound of exhaling.
Together, the cycle of breathing is “Soham”, meaning “I am” in Sanskrit.
In Hindu meditation practice, Soham, as a mantra, implies pure being; not a specified being or self, just ultimate reality (God).
Likewise, in the Bible, “I am” is how God self-identifies.
Traditional gender titles of Mr, Mrs, and Ms are self-limiting in contemporary times. Perhaps punctuations should be used to identity people and their sexual identities, such as:
Female appearance: (:)
Male appearance: (;)
Straight: (|)
Gay: (\)
Bisexual: (<>)
Trans (\/)
Dominant Female: (‘:)
Submissive Female: (:’)
Dominant Male: (‘;)
Submissive Male: (;’)
Weird Female in public: (“:)
Weird Male in public: (“;)
Weird Female in private: (:”)
Weird Male in private: (;”)
Weird Female every which way: (“:”)
Weird Male every which way: (“;”)
Undecided Person: (?)
Materialistic: ($)
Into group sex: (#)
Sexually loyal: (&)
Mental connection priority: (i)
Physical connection priority: (!)
Wants children: (+)
Doesn’t want children: (-)
Self-conscious: (%)
Dreamer: (*)
Religious: (^)
Homebody: (@)
For example, a person describing themselves as:
(“$^&’:@+) is a publicly weird materialistic religious loyal dominant Female homebody interested in having children.
(‘;!<>#*”-) is a dominant Male physically focused bisexual into group sex fantasies privately weird stuff and not interested in having children.
It’s clearly ridiculous when the mind categorizes ourselves and others with punctuation. Categorization rejects the truth that each of us is unique and yet shares a fundamental oneness.
Recognizing our unity, everyone could simply be referred to as “it”. This identifier is suggested by the long-used greeting: “How’s it going?”
Ultimately, those who know the true nature of things can only describe anyone or thing as “it is what it is whatever it is “. They are at peace, as they know the devil is in the details separating us from our essential unity.
A showman is a shaman.
When your attention is focused outside your self, you are free from your self.
“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.”
— Galileo Galilei
Mathematics connects everything in the universe.
The etymology of the word number is “to divide.”
God unifies, man divides.
“I”, “Is”, and “Time” are the most frequently used pronoun, verb and noun.
While these words never appear together as a sentence, “I is time” reveals what we are.
“I” implies a personal self that’s separate from all that is not the self.
“Is” (unlike the customary “am”) suggests a universal identity beyond the personal self.
Our universal identity is the soul.
The soul is what every thing is before and after the now.
The now is the soul manifesting.
“Time” is a conceptual construct that frames how the self perceives the now, as separate things and events; not as it is: an everchanging flow.
“I is time:” I, the self, am the soul experiencing the soul in human form.
I is time
Acronym: “I IT”
“It” is the most basic noun for undifferentiated reality. Before classifying a thing, it’s an “it”.
As “it” encompasses infinite potentials, “it” is what every thing is before it is what it is in the now.
In the timeless space before and after the now is solely the soul.
“It” is the soul.
“I it” is also “eye-it”: what I see is what I am.
It Is What It Is Whatever It Is.
Acronym: II-WII-WII (I why why?)
Why do I exist? Why is the universe?
There is no why.
All there is is is.
Is is what it is whatever it is.
Heaven is “have-even”.
Heaven is before and after the now, where every thing is even; as every thing is one thing.
Before time began, God named his son “Sun”.
Sun’s progeny is light, the essence of everything.
When the light slows by the speed of light squared, matter appears.
Matter seems real, but is an illusion; essentially light.
The Timeless One knows this.
The definition of passion is:
Emotion.
An intense or overwhelming feeling.
An outbreak of anger.
A strong desire for some activity, object, or concept.
Sexual desire.
The etymology of passion is suffering.
Hap is the root of happiness.
Hap means luck.
Happiness is realizing we are lucky, however difficult our circumstances, things aren’t worse. We are lucky we have a chance for our circumstances to better.
Good evening.
Have a good transition to sleep-death, where all beings are even.
Good morning.
Have a good time mourning the person you were yesterday, who is now no longer.
Each day is not a day in a life, but a life in a day.
We’ve lived thousands of lifetimes within each conventional definition of a lifetime.
Each day we are reincarnated.
Identifying with who we were last lifetimes (all days before today), by not realizing our memories are dreams, makes our mourning difficult.
“The world is new to us every morning. Every man should believe he is reborn each day.” — Baal Shem Tov
Before time begins, all is the NON.
Upon birth, the I of the self and the NON become the NOW.
With the I of the soul, the NOW is a WOW.
The I of the self is red, symbolizing emotions. We experience the now through a myriad of selfish emotions.
The I of the soul is yellow; light, the essence of everything.
The experience of the “non”, with the I of self and the I of the soul, is a “wow.”
“i” is a symbol of body and mind duality.
“I” is a symbol of integrity.
Spiritual evolution is marked by lower case integrating to upper case.
“I am what I am.” — God, Exodus 3:14, The Bible
According to the Bible, Moses encountered a “burning bush” whose flames were not devouring its branches.
The burning bush was the manifestation of God; everchanging and eternal.
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 manifests as a “who”; a self. In the time after the now, God is an undifferentiated potential, a “what“.
Encompassing now and “not now”, we can paraphrase God: “I am what I am”.
God also self-identifies as “I am”; being, not a being.
God is flow of the Everything.
“I am what I am” as an acronym (IAWIA) can be pronounced two ways:
“I WHY” (first vowel pronounced, second vowel silent).
“A-WAY” (first vowel silent, second vowel pronounced).
I WHY
Why do I exist?
The answer needs to identify who I am.
I can be one of an infinite number of things or one thing.
The one thing is the universe. The etymology of the word “universe” is “all things turned into one”. Simply, I am the universe.
To ask why I exist is to ask why does the universe exist.
Reasons/explanations imply cause and effect. What caused the universe to exist? “What” (God) caused the universe to exist!
I exist as a manifestation of God.
A WAY
In the Bible, the written word for God is YHWH which may be pronounced as “A WAY”.
“A WAY” can be likened to the Tao (“The Way”).
The Way is the underlying natural order of the universe, an eternal and ineffable force that flows through all things.
The Way is a nameless cosmic force that binds and releases all things; the energy of action and existence.
Aligning oneself with “A WAY”, one realizes harmony and balance; as all the pieces of the universe come together as one peace.
The two letters in the Hebrew word for “life” have a numerical value, in terms of sequential order in the alphabet, of 8 and 10. Added together, they total 18.
The number 18 is symbolic of life. Monetary gifts between Jews for various rites of passage (birthdays, weddings, holidays, etc.) are always given in multiples of 18 ($18, $54, $180, etc.).
The number 18 also informs us that life is finite and eternal.
1 is finite as it’s drawn from top to bottom, from heaven to Earth, from birth to death.
8 is eternal as it’s continuous, with no beginning and no end.
In life, the eternal soul is expressed as a finite self.
Moreover, 1 implies that every thing is essentially one thing: the expression of the soul. 8 implies every thing is interconnected.
Upon realizing all things are one interconnected thing, we treat every thing as we treat ourselves. That’s compassion.
Our oneness with every thing allows us to view the world from infinite perspectives. That’s the essence of wisdom.
Wisdom and compassion characterize a fully realized life.
Awakening
Ah…Aha…Haha…Hahahaha
Ah — joy.
Aha — realizing joy is the purpose of life.
Haha — laughing at the simplicity of this realization.
Hahahaha — laughing at how silly we were for not realizing this earlier.
We have it backwards. Man’s best friend is not the material (dog), but the transcendental (god).
The present is the pre-sent, not the now.
In the pre-sent, every thing is absent.
The pre-sent is nothing, but unlimited potential before it manifests as whatever it is in the now.
When we are present, we can observe the now and realize we are consciousness that creates the now.