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.

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The Way is not a way; it is here, not away.

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Every thing is made of light, yet light makes light of every thing.

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The Ultimate Self (US) is the eternal flow from before, to and after the now.

While invisible before and after, in the now the timeless Ultimate Self is manifested as the temporary Individual Self (IS).

In the now, US IS.

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The universe is wholly when all things are holy.

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When the desire for a piece subsides, peace arrives.

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When you recognize the soul,

two are too and two is one:

“an other” becomes “another”

“every thing” becomes “everything”

“in sight” becomes “insight”

“every where” becomes “everywhere”

“all ways” become “always”

“no thing” becomes “nothing”.

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When life is moving too fast, a fast can turn fast into slow.

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Every thing, a finite “I” to itself.

The universe is infinite I’s.

Letting go the possessive, the “I’s” are “is”; not things, just a flow.

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Nose knows no’s.

Intuition smells dangers.

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U are who U are, a self in various roles in the play of life.

The self is an experience of roles, circumstances and various emotional reactions.

As the self inevitably dies, the play is a tragedy.

 

The play of life unfolds in the now.

As the now is ever-changing, you are nothing (O) in the now but memories.

 

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.

Yet, as the soul is forever laughing at the self taking its memories seriously, the play is a comedy.

 

U are double U (W), self and soul and nothing (O).

 

Knowing who and what U are, the play of life is WOW.

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Me two or me too;

duality or unity,

self or soul.

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The void is devoid.

Not nothing, just no thing; the absence of things we can experience.

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Each language has different sounds (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 evoke a visceral reaction, rooted in collective consciousness.

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 of sound symbolism is “wow”, a palindrome (a word read the same forwards or backwards). “Wow” is a sound we make when something captivates, astonishes, or delights us; an expression of love.

The sound of “wow” is made by puckering our lips as when making a kiss.

“Wow” reveals love is a palindrome; what we express is expressed back.

Sounds reflecting wisdom and love are as primordial as wisdom and love.

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Simple mantra:

I B I

I C U

Y R U

I R U

U B I

I am me.

I see you.

Why are you?

I am you.

You are me.

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The words “new” and “now” look similar, for they describe the same thing.

New is unlike anything in the past. That’s being in the now.

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Experiences light the way.

Perspectives make light of the way.

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When past is passed, it is absent and we are present.

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The individual self has many emotions.

The sole self, the soul, is one emotion: love.

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The mystical experience is seeing every thing shrouded in mist and realizing we are the light beyond the mist.

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The role affects the roll and the roll affects the role.

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“No know” is the way to “know no”.

When we know that we know no thing, we can come to know nothing; the essence of every thing.

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As the mind does not sense, the sense it makes of our senses is nonsense.

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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.

Thinking of the universe as separate and independent things is an illusion.

As these illusions are everchanging, they cannot be described except but by the one (uni) verse: it is what it is whatever it is.

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“Soooo” is the sound of inhaling.

“Hmmmm” is the sound of exhaling.

Together, the cycle of breathing is “Soham”, meaning “I am” in Sanskrit.

Soham is a Hindu meditative mantra implying pure being; not a being (self), just ultimate reality (God).

Soham, I am God.

Likewise, in the Bible, “I am” is how God self-identifies.

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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 common 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 punctuated in the details separating us from our essential unity as God.

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When you have presence you don’t need presents.

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A showman is a shaman.

A shaman is a showman.

When your attention is focused outside your self, you are free from your self.

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What eye see is what I am.

Eye see sea.

The see is me.

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

— Galileo Galilei

 

Words are the essence of language which man uses to understand the universe.

Mathematics connects everything in the universe.

The etymology of the word “number” is “to divide.”

God unifies, man divides.

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I + Word = World

My word creates the world.

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U are the self.

U are the soul.

Together, the U’s are W, like in the word “whole”.

Without the U’s, there is just a “hole”.

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Your is you’re.

All you have is that you are.

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As U are U to me and I am U to U, all are Us.

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The naked are open.

With clothes they close.

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“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 the Everything; all that’s before, in, and after the now.

However, the soul only manifests in the now.

“Time” is a concept that frames how the self perceives the now, as everchanging independent things; not as it is: timeless and interdependent.*

“I is time”: I, the self, am the soul having a human experience.

 

I Is Time

Acronym: “I IT”

 

“IT” is a general noun for undifferentiated reality, the Everything before it is in the now.

“IT” is the soul.

“I IT”: I am the soul.

 

“I IT” is “eye it”: what I see is what I am.

 

*The soul is infinite, eternal, and unchanging; yet it expresses itself as the ever-changing now.

Though changes appear to unfold in the now over time, the now itself remains constant; for time is but an illusion of perception.

What changes is simply what appears within the now.

What appears is revealed by the visible light spectrum–just 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum– as it dances across the soul, illuminating what has always been there eternally and unseen.

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Urine-nation: a nation that gets into pissing contests and ends up pissing off the world.

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As every thing we see is not a thing but a reflection of light, take things lightly.

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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; there are no things like the universe and me.

All there is is is.

Is is what is is whatever is is.

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Big companies do business and busyness.

Business is work.

Jobs are busyness.

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The now is always the same and all ways different.

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Heaven is “have-even”.

Heaven is before and after the now, where every thing is even; one thing: infinite potentialities.

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The eyes see the sea, what’s there.

The ears hear what’s here.

The nose knows.

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

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

Those who know “what is?” are wise.

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Idol worshipers are idle, not working to realize the oneness of the Everything.

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Before time began, God named his son, Sun.

Sun’s progeny is light, the essence of everything.

When the light slows down by the speed of light squared, it transitions into matter.

Matter seems real, but is an illusion; as it’s essentially light.

The Timeless One knows this.

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The tail wagging a dog is like a tale wagging a man.

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Accepting is unity.

Excepting is duality.

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We chase our tales like dogs chase their tails.

Our tales are our tails. What we want is what we are already.

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The inside of a circle: a hole.

The inside and outside: a whole.

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The grateful feel great, as they are great-full: full of great.

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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.

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Hap is the root of happiness.

Hap means luck.

Happiness is realizing we are lucky, however difficult our circumstances. That is, we are lucky things aren’t worse.

We are also lucky we are in difficult circumstances, as circumstances are likely to improve.

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Good evening.

Have a good transition to where all beings are the same (even); to sleep-death.

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.

By not realizing our memories are dreams, we identify with who we were last lifetimes. This makes our mourning difficult; we can’t be free to experience the now as it is our first time.

Forget the memories and you have a good mourning.

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We treat those of like-kind with kindness.

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Rarely seen foundations: the sole of a foot and the soul of a man.

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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.

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In spiritual evolution, “i” becomes “I”.

“i” is body and mind duality.

“I” is integrity.

IAWIA

“I am what I am.” — God, Exodus 3:14, The Bible

 

The Bible recounts Moses grazing his flock of sheep and encountered a “burning bush” whose flames were not devouring its branches.

The burning bush was the manifestation of God and symbolic of God: apparently everchanging and yet 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 of infinite everchanging selves (the flames of the Burning Bush). In the time after the now, God is an undifferentiated potential (the eternal branches of the Burning Bush), a “what”.

Encompassing the now (“I am…”) and after the now (“I will be what…”), we can paraphrase God: “I am what I am”.

 

God also self-identifies as, simply, “I am”; implying being, not a being; a flow, not a thing.

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?

There are no reasons or explanations.

Simply, I am because I am God.

 

A WAY

In the Bible, the written word for God is YHWH.

With no consensus as to its pronunciation, YHWH may have been pronounced as “A WAY”.

God (“A WAY”) is like the Tao (“The Way”).

The Way is the ineffable and eternal energy that flows through all things; bringing all things into harmony, as all the pieces of the universe come together as one peace.

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Children are, unlike adults, unadulterated.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

— Pablo Picasso

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Upon awakening, every day is no longer everyday.

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The Everything is no-thing and now-thing.

No-thing before and after the now-thing.

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The Hebrew word for “life” is composed by two letter with numerical values of 8 and 10, based on their sequential order in the alphabet. Together, they sum to 18.

The number 18 is symbolic of life. Monetary gifts between Jews for various rites of passage (birthdays, weddings, holidays, etc.) are traditionally given in multiples of 18 ($18, $54, $180, etc.).

The number 18 reveals life is both 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.

1 also 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 wisdom.

Wisdom and compassion are the essence of a fully realized life.

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Life is a present we receive when we are present.

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Hear here.

Sound is the presence of the now.

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When the plural becomes singular, the pieces become peace.

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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.

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We’ve read the word backwards.

Man’s best friend is not the material (dog), but the transcendental (god).

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The present is the pre-sent, not the now.

In the pre-sent, every thing is absent.

The pre-sent is nothing, just unlimited potential before it manifests as whatever it becomes in the now.

When we are present, we can observe the now and realize we are consciousness that creates the now.

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Puns are insightful; pundits are opinionated.

Puns are a play with words or phrases that reveal certain truths; often making conventional thinking funny.

Pundits are serious, well-educated and opinionated; never in doubt, but often wrong. Their views provide us a sense of certainty, however false, in an uncertain world.

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“Real eyes realize real lies.”

— Tupac Shakur

Real eyes can see.

Seeing is knowing the truth which is that anything but the truth is a lie.