02 Dec The Way

The Way is the path to self-realization.

Self-realization is realizing individual selves and other things in the now are temporary illusions creating chaos of the now. What we are eternally is the sole self, the soul.

The now is the soul’s manifestations or expressions. As the now is indivisible, all selves and other pieces in the now are interdependent; otherwise, they are illusions.

The purpose of self-realization is to make peace of the chaotic now.

Before birth, we are the soul.

Upon birth, we are the now, yet don’t remember we are also the soul.

Oblivious of what we are, we are easily socialized to believe we are an individual self in various roles in the play of life, the now.

As an individual self, we feel apart and separate from the infinite number of everchanging things or pieces in the now. This is duality.

The everchanging pieces and dualities make the now chaotic; at times, violently so.

Upon death, there is an invisible hole in the now into which the self and all pieces disappear.

The hole leads to the soul where all pieces are whole.

The soul has no dualities; no pieces, just peace.

The Way to self-realization begins when we repudiate our socialization and understanding of the now.

Doing so, we realize we don’t know what we are.

We can then come to know the now by observing the now.

As a hand cannot grasp itself, we cannot both be in the now and observe the now.

We need to separate from the now to observe it.

Meditation allows us to observe the now.

In meditation, we see the now begins when we inhale and ends when we exhale.

The sound of the inhale is “sooo”. The sound of the exhale is “hmmm”. Together, they form the Sanskrit word “soham”; meaning “I am”. I am the now. My sounds create the now.

From the silent space between the end of an exhale and the beginning of an inhale, we are outside the now and can observe the now.

In this space, we are the soul.

As the soul, we realize we are also the now.

We love the now which is essentially a manifestation of what we are.

Loving the chaotic now is peace.