If everything is god then even business is also god at work, even capitalism must somehow be god at work.
The pains of life are necessary
To teach people badly is to teach people that they are criminals and that they need to suppress their nature in order to be good people, when the opposite is actually true. They need to discover their true nature, because at the bottom of themselves they will find love, not violence. Love is stronger than violence. The loving expression of violence is non-violence. Before violence existed there was no violence. There was a void. The genesis of violence was the ripping apart of the void, when it was separated from itself, and what was emptiness became existence and non-existence.
It sure is difficult to write a book in the days of facebook when you can just say everything live. I’m not all that motivated to make money, despite the influence of my vigorous American Capitalist upbringing and education. Somehow I just want to communicate. I’ve never really thought of myself as a loner. I’m very much a people person. But in New York City you have to work to get people to even look at you, let alone smile or actually say hello. It’s like everyone is just in their own little bubble ignoring everyone else around them, acting as if they are the only people in the world, attached by their faces to their phones and walking around as if they are reading a map as they go. They don’t even see their surroundings, just a screen between their fingers. This may seem a bit anti-social at the moment, but these people are just connecting in a new and different way, and while one thing is hidden from them, another is revealed.
What is this internet? What are we discovering in this digital universe, which is able to distract us from our immediate neighbors and our surroundings? Is it something we found lacking in them? Whatever it is, it must be significant because NOW is the moment we have never experienced before. Of course this has always been true. It always will be.
This connectivity is a silent revolution. The people are in touch as they have never been before. We may still feel powerless as members of this society, of this police state, but the power itself must take heed, because the common man now has access to universal connectivity. The common man is the police. The common man is the military. The common man is Al Qaeda. The common man is Iran. The common man is Pakistan. The common man IS America, even when he is oppressed by it. I AM is the common man, and the force of the universe is in him.
We are in a new age. This is the age of interconnectivity. This is the age where man discovers that he is everyone else. We are all eyes attached to a screen. Whether we are holding a digital screen in our hands, or are looking at the living reality surrounding us. Have we tapped into an alternative universe? Is it possible to separate the universe of screens and letters of virtual communication from the molecules of living matter themselves?
The internet is like having a connection into the heads of everyone else who is connected to this virtual world. TV is not a dissimilar phenomenon, but television is more about receptivity, about taking in, and it is not interactive the way the digital world of connected computers is. There are human eyes staring into the net, building the computer, inventing the reality. What are we staring into? Who are we talking to? Have we only found ourselves as we stare into the screen before us? Who invented the screen and who gives it meaning? Who is the perceiver of creation? Aren’t we seeing with the eyes of creation?
So are we talking to ourselves? When we talk to each other, who are we really talking to? If we are connected to everything around us, then are we talking to parts of One? Isn’t that what our science has taught us? Isn’t that what our spiritualities are trying to tell us?
One thing that’s sure is that I’m a rambler.
In the beginning was the void, but the void was whole. Was the void encapsulated in the smallest molecule of existence? Inside this molecule was every potentiality in the universe. The void was God. Before it became everything, god was nothing. Then suddenly our science tells us we had a big bang. This is when the void split in two. Like how splitting the atom makes a big bang. Yea. Like that. That’s what that science project was about. OK, so that’s about as close to the discovery of creation as we can get without total desctruction. This makes the Large Hadron Collider unnecessary, and possibly life threatening. {Let’s not open another Pandora’s box here people. Existence is not something to pass up and we don’t want to get swallowed by a black hole of our own creation.}
So with the separation of One into light and dark, positive and negative, male and female, there was suddenly everything, existence itself, and it was expanding. All we knew is that we were here, looking out at existence. I never could understand why we have been trying to shoot ourselves into space with rockets. I guess maybe it’s because somebody really wants to look at existence objectively, and it can’t be done from in here, in this atmospheric bubble.
The problem with this scientists’ little project is that there is no out there out there. He’ll still be looking out there from in here. You can’t be alive and truly get out of in here. Enlightenment is still here. No matter how high you go you are still here. In fact the highest you can get is right now. That’s what existence is. It’s in here. Non-existence is out there. That’s heaven. That’s empty space. That is nothing. Enlightenment is the experience of being fully connected to everything. But only in non-existence is everything whole again. There is no existence in infinity. It just is ever after.
Existence is the experience of being temporary. All things that are alive exist because they will cease to exist. Existence doesn’t exist without non-existence. Nothing is the void.
In the beginning was the void, and to the Void we shall return. Behind the computer is just more void. Behind our selves is the void. In this void we are angels. In here is love. Out there is love. Everything else is just the illusion of separation.
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