April 12, 2005
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I loved reading what someone wrote tonight …
“Just the essence of nothing is impossible to perceive”
…I like this…
Nothing and thing. The fundamental duality at the core of our “reality”
You can’t explain it in traditional terms of anyone’s experiential perception…
Nor is the tool of sequential thought up to the task
You can only point to it … as if trying to see the whispering winds
There are qualities that exist within the formless
If you would see its reflection look to form and see it as half of a greater unity of form and formlessness.
Your body …cannot exist without the space it is in.
existence is both form and space
Even within the mind …there are exists the duality of thought forms and a quality of infinite stillness in which they exist….
the depth of this stillness …has no limits…
Form and formless…
Motion and repose
The unity of being…
~One
Another perspective
From somewhere/when within nothingness manifests into form.
This is consciousness
Energy into the illusion of matter…
Happens all the time on a quantum level
No-thing, silence, infinity on the head if a pin
We are both form and form less
The former we value but it is transitory illusion
The poverty of desire…
Love, freedom, inner peace…
All of these arise from beyond mind- form things.
We are all simply…
Tubes…. Open at both ends
Food goes In one end
and comes out the other…
Add a few nerves and ganglia to one end and you find more food too pass it out the other .. But all that food going through wears the tube out.
But you feel you must carry on doing that as long as possible. You must survive … Even As living spontaneously makes other baby tubes to carry on …..
Life and death a polarity within the unity of the molecular dance
Life and death is as natural as breathing in and out…
It’s a spontaneous process
Our identification only with form as individuals compels us to keeping going… And we feel we must survive…. Serious business that, heavy and a drag…
Our egos promising us that if we do this or that they will get you out of this mess….and forget to live, playing it safe, and thinking constantly about the future…. As death looms like the grim reaper…
This is hollow egoic perspective, an unconscious control drama…. A struggle against the Tao that you lose every time you chose it identify with it…
Life does not have to be a struggle to survive.
It is rather the joy of the dance
Creation unfolding in the eternal moment….
World peace will come about when the people of the world awaken from our predominate state of egoic consciousness and evolve to the state of present consciousness…
Reality is ….
Here and Now
When we as a species live fully in the moment,
We will regain ~Life and Live
As one united people of Earth
Until that moment our bloody, insane history will be continue to play out in the present….
Thank you for the inspiration Slip Ring
Doug
Comments (36)
Just a brilliant blog. I haven’t been by to see you in forever, so I have an uneasy feeling that I’ve missed other brilliances. This one couldn’t help but make me think of something I think Hegel once said: “Every thing is its own other.” Meaning: everything is defined by what it is not. The concept of what a table is, for example, is understood in terms of the properties it DOESN’T possess. Whenever I mull this over in my mind, I alternate between understanding it and thinking it’s nonsense
You’re WAY better than Hegel.:wave:
Your posts are amazing just for the pictures. But when the entries are sat down and read… it just multiplies the goodness.
you know I hear alot of people say life isn’t a struggle, but why do they struggle so hard at being at peace. Life happens, why fight it. Peace. Peace is a solo effort.
I find that being at peace with myself; those that surround me are also at peace.
I find that I am not surrounded by many..
I agree
Death has become more or less a thought that is falling into the category of surreal.
Nobody wants to face the fact that there is a possibility that nothing will be left
when we die. Thus, they create these heavens and hells and so forth… and do nothing
but feed the illusive mindset that they’ve so dilligently fallen victim to.
Imagine if the world were to live for the hear and the now. (John Lennon: Imagine)
Or, better yet, imagine what the world would be like today we had always been that way.
:spinning:
“… parasitism, dominance, morality, war, predation. These will be subject to de-emphasis. These will be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These will be the manifestations of the new evolution …”
Great thoughts.
-Gordy
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte484v/wakinglife.html :coolman:
it starts on an indivudial level & in the here & now reality of this morning yuc i’m outta coffe & the whole world bites nice post dos magi
Dear Doug,
In the Universal, of course “thing” and “nothing” are the “same thing”. We eventually move from out “tube” existence to “immortal thought” which answers our earthly questions with a profundity unimaginable in the “here and now”.
I sometimes think that “world peace” will never be attainable here but perhaps on another world in some future or past after mankind has “learned” to use the 75 percent or so of his brainpower that he doesn’t “now”. As soon as enlightenment is attained, cloning might be used to expand the “life” of the “tube” until we reach the “destination” which will harbor peace and ebullience for mankind.
Just another extraconcious thought in the Universal Mind.
“Life does not have to be a struggle to survive: It is rather the joy of the dance”. I like that quote, very poetic. Too many forsake the dance because they feel they need to learn the steps, and then sadly it is too late.
Sort of like waiting for the music to begin again instead of joining in while realizing that the song has been playing for millenia.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
:fun: i don’t understand a word you just wrote
I talked to a friend of mine about a quote from a book that i read a few months back, and I was wondering if maybe you had some views on it.
“To follow your heart, to either love or hate, in the long run is the same mistake. Your judgement becomes clouded. Your motives, confused. If you are not very careful, Padawan, love will take you to the dark side. Slower than hate, yes, but no less surely for that.”
In the Void exists potential…undreamed dreams, unthought thoughts…
After my exhusband’s death, I suddenly became aware of how short life is…even if I live to be 100. (Which, actually, I’m hoping ~doesn’t~ happen…lol!) I try hard not to worry, and I think I succeed well. I know worrying applies energy to the very thoughts I don’t ant manifesting, so I work hard to stay focussed. I do advise caution, of course, when living your life…but not to the point of fear and stagnation. If this is the only time we go around (and it is the only we’ll go around in the time and space), I want to do it as fearlessly as possible. I don’t want to be 87 someday and shaking my head because I never had the pure gumption to do those things I wanted to do because I was afraid.
Nope. Not gonna happen.
Peace and Love, Doug…GFW
Again, I love your blog.
It’s lovely to come back to these. I know words to describe your style but have long forgotten what they are, so I am not even trying to reach your heights. You’ll find me better face to face though you might have to correct my pronouncations which are on par with my spelling. I think relaxed and on holiday I can hold my own corner better than when tired and tensed up.
fundamental duality…
, you and that what the bleep movie get along so nicely… :coolman:
I dont have you as a teacher
but ooooh I hope I do
I think I`d rather like your point of view
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
you know Dave right? Moline?
I agree with his statement of ignorant nowadays and am glad that things went well with that situation… jolly good show chap
-Travis
~ nice~ b
Well my friend, I only have access to this Internet at work. I dont use it at home anymore. So unless I am at work, sneaking on or at the library….I do not use this computer much anymore. Its an addiction, I am afraid I had to elliminiate from my home life….I needed sleep. Email me….I check often and would love to correspond somehow. About the poem…I think an honest critic is needed sometimes not for ego but for learning. It was honest critic….I think in the right context I would liek to believe that is an utmost positive influence in our lives. We need good teachers who point out where we cannot see and are yet blind to perspectives, to thoughts and ideas….an honest critic…can lighten the way for some. Dont you think? Criticism is only negative, in a negative mind. I am actually learning to soak in the cirtic and welcome their view…no longer lashing out or defending my stance, I learned…I am not yet that wise.
Put the link to the For_Terry site on this blog!
and thank you for the inspiration, doug.
:sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny::sunny:
swarzy!! just thought id leave alittle comment saying hi & hoping at the same time that i will be getting extra credit for this wondeful comment! lol. well ill see ya in class tomorrow. ::: Danielle :::
oh ya. this is some deep stuff. i would have never thought about any of this stuff on my own.
Ahhh Doug very nice. Re: the moment- i share with einstein the opinion all time is now- al-ways.
peace:heartbeat:
Said the sage Sanatkumara to Narada:
“Where one realizes the indivisible unity
of life, sees nothing else, hears nothing else,
knows nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where
one sees separateness, hears separateness,
knows searateness, that is the finite. The
Infinite is beyond death, but the finite
cannot escape death.”
-Chandogya Upanishad
Last One
There is no dervish in the world;
and if there be a dervish, that dervish is really non-existent.
In essence he exists,
but his attributes are non-existent within God’s.
-Mathnawi [III, 3669-3670]:love:
you have stated more than a mouthfull here
I do not know where to start but you ended with such a bang I had to say something…
so Hi
I *smile*
Nothing is a whole lot more satisfying than something.
You may have seen this quotation before (I’ve published it twice at The Twoberry Patch) from Daniel Gregory Mason, but it is so apt:
“If you can perceive unity in the bewildering complexity of our existence, then you possess:
“In the realm of knowledge, Truth.
“In the realm of practice, Character.
“In the realm of art, Beauty.”
Thanks so much for your insight. Living in the here and now — yes, that explains a lot. Euphoria is great whether you understand or not why you’re experiencing it, but to understand the reason is an order of magnitude better.
Maybe so.
Keep it going…..
:coolman: i’m with the three heads on this one ~ mag :rolleyes::
I guess you could say we tend to rely too much on our senses to live in this world. We tend to forget/neglect the invisible forces that play a part in the grand scheme of things. And, it is true that only when you are present in the Now do such things come to light.
:goodjob:
In the end we will only conserve the things that we love,
We will only love the things that we understand, and
We will only understand the things we are taught.
Another experience to broaden my world….that is what I felt as I read your blog and comments, especially baldmike2004. The part where we are like a tube with food going in one end and exiting the other, made me smile. What all this seemed to do was to validate how I have lived for these 76 years. I evolved from a frightened often clueless child to the often serene person I am because of the experiences, good and bad, and what I learned from them. Since I can’t hear, I use my memory to hear the music, and since I am arthritic, I dance in my head. Whether or not Heaven and Hell exist is irrelevant if I relish fully what is now.
:love:
Yes, that is I!
nice pics b.
In nothing can exist everything, in anything else there is a limit no matter how distant. A mind burdened with prejudices and imprisoning ideologies will see everything only after it has travelled through their layers upon layers of beliefs becoming mutilated and sliced to ribbons along the way, arriving a shrivelled up mess with barely a trace of its original essence.
Interesting thoughts here. Tubes are we? Hadn’t thought of it that way but I suppose it is true.
have u quit posting ?