Knowing the world through our senses makes sense.

When our mind makes sense of our senses, we aren’t experiencing our senses.

“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.” — Galileo Galilei

Mathematics connects everything in the universe. Contrawise, the human mind created the word “number” whose etymology is “to divide.”

Upon awakening,

i becomes !

I + Word = World

My word creates the world.

“Sol” is the name of the Roman sun god.

From soul comes light.

The etymology of the word “universe” is literally “turned into one.”

The universe is the Everything turned into one thing.

The Everything is the now and what is before and after the now.

Sometimes, the Everything is called “God.”

As many people pray to God for many specific things but ultimately happiness, the workings of the universe may reveal the peace beyond near-term happiness.

God is like a shiny coin rapidly flipping and reflecting light.

One side is called “heads” and the other called “tails.” The plural is used to describe each side because each time we see the same side it is different in time and space than it was before and we are not the same person from one minute to the next.

The side we see is the now. The side we don’t see is what is before and after the now.

As God is rapidly turning, the visible side is just reflections of light. However, the mind slows down the turning and creates detailed images from the light. The images and the stories we tell about them are illusions.

The heads and tails seem a duality. However, the duality is also an illusion. All there is are two sides “turning into one,” the universe in the form of a coin.

Rarely noticed is the edge of the coin, the “third side.” The third side interconnects the two seemingly independent sides that are actually interdependent as one cannot exist without the other.

Horizontally from edge to edge is an invisible central axis, or path, around which the coin dances in perfect harmony. The path is the “Tao.”

The Tao is ultimate reality,* the underlying principle or source from which all things arise and to which they return. The Tao is the natural flow and harmony of the universe.

When we simply appreciate the coin fluttering like a butterfly, we are in tune with the Tao. We are not distracted by images and related stories we’ve created. We are in a state of peaceful harmony.

Most of us are oblivious of the Tao, as our attention is on what was now, what is now and what will be now, the visible side of the coin.

We see what is now in the context of what was and we hope to get lucky; that the next visible side, the next now, will bring us happiness.

“Hap” means luck. It is the root of happiness.

We pray to God to bring us luck.

Yet, when we experience the simple beauty of the Tao, we realize eternal peace rather than temporary happiness.

*While a coin flipping in the air seems a simple process, it’s actually extremely complicated to explain in terms of physics. It involves classical mechanics, rotational dynamics, angular momentum and precession, fluid dynamics, chaos theory and quantum mechanics. In perspective, the theory of relativity is considered easier to come to know than coin flip dynamics.

As everyone who is not me is U and I am U to everyone else, all beings are Us.

When past is passed, it’s absent in the present.

I + dolls = Idols

“I”, “Is”, and “Time” are the most frequently used pronoun, verb and noun.

While these words are never together in a sentence as “I is time”, they reveal the ultimate truth of existence.

“I is” challenges the conventional “I am”, suggesting an identity beyond the individual self.

“I is time” implies I is not this or that static thing, emotion or concept.

“I is time” is transcendental. I is a flow of events. I is infinite, continuous and eternal. Conventionally speaking, “I am the universe”.

The acronym “I-IT” (I Is Time) also illuminates.

The “it” is the Everything: the now and all that is before and after the now. The Everything is beyond description, other than “oneness”.

In essence, I am the Everything continuously expressing and experiencing itself.

As every thing we see is but a reflection of light, take things lightly.

“The Great Way” begins with “no know” and ends with “know no.”

“The Great Way” (or Tao), a central concept in Taoism, is the natural flow of the universe and the path to harmony. It is the path to liberation from our temporary individual self (which exists only in the now) to realizing our eternal oneness with the Everything.

The Everything is the soul and its manifestation in the now.

The soul is what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. The soul is “no-thing,” just energy.

The now is an infinite number of seemingly separate things. However, their separateness is an illusion, as all things are interdependent. Ultimately, all things in the now are one thing: the manifestation (expression) of the soul.

The self is who we are in the now.

The self conceives the now as a duality: the self and that which is not the self. Upon this foundational duality, we perceive separateness between all things in the now.

The self’s perception of separateness is based on illusions (memories, stories and identities) that define who we are, not what we are (the Everything).

The path to liberation begins when we realize we “no know.” That is, our self does not know what we are. We then dispense with our heretofore perception of reality based on the self and its illusions.

Dispensing with the illusion of separateness, we come to “know no;” to know the “no-thing” (the soul).

Knowing the soul, we experience the expression of the soul, the now, as an interconnectedness of all things.

From the soul to the soul’s expression and the reverting to the soul is the natural flow of the universe. Realizing that this is what we are, the Everything, we are in harmony with the flow of the universe.

Meditation is a central practice of “The Great Way.” Through meditation, we can let go of the self which in turn liberates us from the self.

Holding the self makes the hand a fist, an aggressive gesture suggestive of duality. Letting go the self, the hand opens like a handshake that allows us to connect with all things (facets of the now). The connection is love.

In meditation, we focus on breathing and the space between breaths. The breaths are the now and the space between breaths is the “no-thing” (the soul).

In the space of the “no-thing,” we can observe the now and come to realize the now is one thing (the expression of the soul) and we are the consciousness that creates it. We are the Everything.

With the wisdom of knowing we are the Everything, we realize our self’s sense of separateness and the self itself are illusions. This wisdom leads us to love all facets of the now.

The sounds of “no know” and “know no” are the same, but their meanings distinct. The same energy vibrations (sound) from the soul is manifested differently as words in the now.

Liberation is reverting from words to their sounds; from distinct to harmonious. The path back is the Tao. The Tao reveals that “no know” and “know no” are one; that we and the energy are one.

Affects are the means and effects are the ends, but effects affect affects.

It Is What It Is Whatever It Is

Acronym: II-WII-WII (pronounced: I why why)

Why do I exist? Why is the universe as it is?

It Is What It Is Whatever It Is.

There is no why. All there is is is.

Each sense connects us to a facet of reality. Thoughts are a senseless connection.

The now is always the same and all ways different.

Heaven is “have-even,” where every thing is even, as every thing is one thing in the space before and after the now.

I am being, not a being.

The eyes see the sea, what’s there.

The ears hear what’s here.

The nose knows.

When every day is holy, every day is a holiday.

Those who can explain “what it?” have wit.

Those who know “what is?” are wise.

Idol worshipers are idle.

God worshipers work at realizing divine consciousness.

God’s son is the sun.

God’s offspring is light.

Only hours are ours.

Our time in life is the only thing we have.

When our tale defines us, the tail is wagging the dog.