We search for a solution to our problems or our lives, but I don't think there is one. I don't there is a solution because I don't think there is anything to solve. Not that we don't have problems or troubles, but that we don't need to solve them. They don't need to be solved. The search for a grand solution I think is just an idea that doesn't really have any ground in reality. I think much of our suffering is due to the fact that we are searching for something else than what we have, when as far as I can tell, there is nothing else. Even "God" can never be separate from us, even when we are Donald Trump. The Whole is the whole bowl. I don't think we can pinpoint what this is. I think we can find absolute freedom here, but when I've found it I haven't reached somewhere new I've just come to my senses and been able to see more or less things as they are. I come to the conclusion that this place of boundless freedom is where I always am, I just don't seem to be aware of it much of the time. And it's not something you can cling too, it's open ended.
I think in an absolute sense we are free right now as we are. This freedom includes the painful and the mundane. I want to say that the way to find much peace is to embrace life as it is wholeheartedly, but I think this still may be missing the point. I think this still is a way of thinking in which one is turning away from how things are because the present is deemed insufficient. A turning away from a very real suffering, even if in such a small degree. It's also saying that we are not embracing life wholeheartedly as we are now, and that we are selves are somehow inept, lacking a certain quality that would make our lives right. I think this is ridiculous because it is impossible to be separate from life in any way, shape, or form. We may turn away from specific unpleasant forms in our minds and hearts, but everything about who we are is genuine because everything that we are is real. We cannot be less than wholehearted because we exist. Lol. We are always one with the universe. Our hearts are always boundless and full. Sometimes they are just full of hate. Lol. The idea that we can be less than whole is a disconnected furtherance of our meditations on our feelings of lack. We feel weak, lonely, unfulfilled and we assume we must be lacking something quintessential. We don't understand the universe and we assume a great deal about it. It's these assumptions that lead to great amounts of repeated mental head smashings on all kinds of wonderful hard surfaces. But this is how it is!? No I'm afraid not. Nearly everything you believe is bullshit. Lol. What a funny thing.
I think we can be and that we can do in these moments whatever we want. Or at least whatever we find ourselves capable of doing. I think the difference between the wise and the ignorant is that the wise person is awareness. The fundamental nature of the two is the same. Both are whole, both are God. Whatever. It seems like the feelings of lack are just that, feelings. Not realities. Not that we should totally discount our feelings by any means. Just that it helps to be aware that their depths have limits and that there veracity is often clouded by judgments, assumptions, and beliefs.
So much of how we feel about ourselves is untrue and not real. We are lost in a quagmire of artificial cake toppings that we can't help ourselves from overindulging in. The result is that we are sick to our stomachs. Perverted in our mentation and derelict in the proper maintenance of our lives. To such a degree that it seems almost hopeless that humankind will avert from the devastation of what looks like an impending apocalypse. And also to a degree to which it seems pointless to try and completely overcome the artifice of our daily lives. It seems more appropriate to settle with much of it in contrast to trying to completely rock the boat. At least in the meantime. However great it may be, this artifice can't hold out forever because it is a castle built on sand.
Even if we may save the world today or in our lifetimes, we can go to great lengths saving ourselves and probably some of the people we influence. In many ways the great wall of ignorance is cracking and even split wide open. More so today than in the last several thousand years. Let's call this the real furtherance of thought made by what I'll call in a broad sweep New Age religion (an evolution and synthesis of tried and true wisdom traditions), general progress over the last x-thousand years in science, technology, justice, human rights, depth of consciousness. In many places all over the world, there is strength enough for individuals and communities to experiment with radical ideas that challenge the status quo which is often narrow and unforgiving. I have witnessed this social-consciousness expansion accelerate over the last 10 years growing in great strength and in rootedness. I see the establishing of a culture and a people that has more potential than any other on Earth. A culture based upon trans-dogmatic science and religion. Where the bounds of the intellect are matched by the bounds of the heart and the spirit. This community has my affections because I am one of it's children and one of it's exponents. This culture is not the formation of a new dogmatic faith, it is an answer to the problems and limitations of dogma around the world. It is not one that separates itself from others, but is one with existing communities. It is a exposing to greater clarity of our raw humanity and of the kindredness of all human beings and all life. It is a synthesis of cultures, sciences, and religions. I believe it is the sprout of the next step in human civilization. It is no longer the seed within the minds of a few individuals in temples and monasteries around the world. It has taken rooted and sprouted onto the surface of the world. And I don't think there is anything we can do to stop it. It may me a very small minority, but it's power and voracity is unparalleled. It is a novelty that will infect the entire system in due time because it is the deliverance that we have struggled for and prayed for for millennia. The countless prayers, wishes, hopes, and dreams of yearning human hearts over the millennia has created a maelstrom of karma that is beginning to tear across the face of the Earth.
Much of what we know may be destroyed in the process. But, I believe it is the uprooting of the old for the coming of the new. This may take centuries, or even longer. But, a new way is coming and it is clearing the face of the Earth. There is no more room for the old. There is nothing we can do to stop it. It is not simply a human movement, it is a total omni-dimensional world shift. As in heaven as it is on Earth. It has been being born since Christ and before. As it has probably been here before and come to it's time to pass away before. It's breath is in the air if you have the sense to feel it. It may be speaking to you in subtle and overt ways. It is the message of the times. For myself, it is the divine wind that I could not ignore and has apparently completely overtaken my direction in life. In a way I have been born again in it. It is my calling to carry it's light like a knight in the storm to the people on Earth and to see that it becomes the breath of the people that walk among the stones and the trees. It is in a way bringing the people to the Earth and to the sky. As King Arthur was one with the land so shall this come to pass for many others.
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