Life is suffering...
It ceases to be hell, or at least as much of a hell, when we can learn to stop taking life personally by cultivating detachment through insight into the nature of reality. I think we suffer less because we lose our fear of loss. We are less afraid of death because death doesn't seem as different from life. It may even be the same as life. This personhood doesn't seem as much of who we are, so when it suffers it bothers us less. Suffering seems to be an unavoidable fact of life and less of something that needs to be avoided or stifled. This human life seems temporary and something we can't hold onto even if we want to. Fighting the natural flow of life seems useless and foolish when going with the flow seems like relief and wisdom. Life is uncertain, dangerous, terrible, unpredictable. What's the best we can do with these circumstances?
We become deceitful, selfish, and mean when we life in fear of death. When we cannot see that their is nothing we can do to avoid our eventual demise. Perhaps it is when we cannot bear to face the reality of the uncertainty of our human predicament. Here, we choose distrust and competition in order to survive. In order to avoid the reality of what death may mean. I think it is a terrible thing to live in constant fear of death. To live in distrust. We can never know what death may bring if we live in such resistance. We won't know what life is when we don't allow life to be, when we don't allow ourselves to see it: to see what is happening right in front of our eyes. We are afraid that we won't be able to bear the burden of being awake and live in fear of the terrible reality we imagine it to be. It seems like we are not trapped in life, but in our minds.
In the moment, their's nothing we can do about this. For all we know, our nightmares are the way the world is. We don't know. We are naked in our ignorance, cowering in the light of reality, in the possibilities of awareness. No wonder we are such brutes. We are terrified. We act impulsively. It is awesome that we have developed our reasoning powers and have the ability to restrain our instincts, passions, and egos in order that we may think. It is by reasoning that we gradually allow ourselves to face reality, to pull back the veil of fear and terror and allow organic computation to take place. Something in us knows it is useful to spend some of what excess time we have studying and analyzing the world more approximately than we have before.
Some instinct or feeling tells us that the more we know, the better off we'll be. This studying eventually becomes soothing and enjoyable, a constant and intimate companion. It becomes who we are. Instead of fighting to stave off the light of reality, the weight of awareness, we strive to embrace it as fully as possible. We realize that it is who we are, as much as we are anything, and we feel that that which keeps us in the dark is abhorrent.
These two poles, the resistance of and the embrace of awareness, are apart of the human condition. They are apart of the journey from unconsciousness to consciousness. Parts of us are more and less mature. Parts of us weak and parts of us strong in different and complicated ways. We are not entirely one way or the other. We are both in a complicated and interdependent way.
This is what we see in the face of another human being. The inexpressible complexity of thought and feeling woven into a tapestry that is the give and take of the light and darkness of awareness. This deeply complex interplay of feelings is what is so beautiful in human beings. Our feelings are our awareness. They are the perfect synthesis of perhaps infinitely complex and multi-dimensional consciousness. And they are personal. This is what makes a feeling a feeling. It happens to somebody. Someone who is...
Feelings underscore the bigger picture. That we are...That we are here now...
Feelings are incredible. They lead us to discover who we are and what life is all about. They take our thoughts to a whole new level. They take us to a whole new level. They brake the spacetime reality as we know it. They brake our understanding of ourselves They move us in oceanic and transpersonal being. Super dope!! I think its funny that the way most people see themselves is such a temporary reality and seemingly so wrong in the face recognizing the illusory nature of egoic perception and boundaries. We think we're so solid. These little human bodies with thoughts and feelings, they boundaries dissolve and we're tripping out and up and in all the time. We can't find a difference between ourselves and our external environments. Lol. It's so trippy because it's so different than what 99.99999 percent of the human population thinks. And you look at them and they look insane. They act and talk like they are looking at things when they're floating inside of their own imaginations with a tentative and subconscious instinctual hold of reality. It's bizarre. We are so much more than these little egos.
People act so sure of themselves. We act this way to appear trustworthy, essentially to survive and get what we want, when in reality we find ourselves terribly uncertain about so much. We really believe ourselves too, at least part of us is convinced. We cling to what fits best in our current life-environment situation, and struggle to push our doubts out of our minds. What we repress builds up in our minds and bodies as stress and tension. It makes us crazy and forces us to rethink our beliefs and outlooks. This reality reveals itself in the rise of mental illness, probably world wide. For many, the trajectory aims at deeper and deeper disassociation with feelings, with reality. Our feelings, properly managed, guide us to seeing things as they are. Deepening disassociation leads to psychosis.
This tells us that society as a whole in many ways moves away from sense, from functioning in a healthy and balanced way.
Another indication of the general deep disassociation manifests in the ever-growing destruction and discord of the biosphere. If humanity was a plant growing in the ground, we would essentially be pulling the plant out of the ground and doing our best to cut off as much of the roots as possible. The consequence of madness. This aspect of human culture reaches far and wide, clearly seizing our attentions in fear and stress. Yet, we also blossom in the opposite direction, towards enlightenment. In other ways, some large and in the spotlight, some quiet and in the periphery we daily cast aside more and more of the veil of ignorance and fear, gaining more ground and confidence in our position. The advent of scientific thought and reason clearly take the center stage, while the wonderful development of universal and transcendent religion remains mostly on the sidelines, available and astonishing to a minority of us humans. These two growths exist on the same ladder or tree of knowledge and consciousness. I think their pairing is our salvation. Freedom from the adversity of our physical world, freedom from the hostility of ideology, and freedom of human consciousness from the ego. A global unification in the light of reason and in the kinship of humankind. This message carried across the planet in the vessel of Universal Oneness, in the divine yet entirely human notion that, Together we are One.
Our feelings lead to this. To boundless being: our inseparability from eachother and from life. This embrace directed, with a crystal clear and divine fiery passion of the heart, towards the fulfillment of We Are consciousness on Earth. Towards justice, fairness, environmental-human balance, and a dissolution of dogma world wide in the consciousness of Universal Oneness.
Hell dissolves in being. Suffering dissolves in this movement towards We Are consciousness. A movement inspired by true love and wisdom. This consciousness grows daily after millennia of gradual eruption. It is at it strongest now on Earth than it has been in a very long while. We are moving to something new, a massive upheaval of human society and human consciousness. Through the chaos this rises and claims it's authority over the Earth. It is the impetus behind the oceanic disturbance that most of us are at best vaguely aware of. It is a fire stoked by the Buddha, Christ, Mohammad and many other teachers throughout the last 10.000 years. I do not know if for all, but for many, the veil of ignorance will be removed and we will stand together in the light of our Universal Being. We will and are right now constructing a new world. We will weather the storm that will clear the way for our City.
We are free right now to create in Love and Goodness. Underneath everything, I think we already do. And this is the point of life...
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