I have come to a realization about the structure of the universe. Let me know what you think. We are each points of light. The strength and quality of that light wil simulutaneously illuminate reality and become bright enough to be observed by other illuminosities. This enables us to both provide and obtain information at the same time, thus establishing an equilibrium. This equilibrium can be influenced to a small degree towards either, light or darkness, existence or non existence or the eternal struggle of God. This is a bit of a ramble but I hope it sparks some debate by the community. I think each of our existences contributes to this universal struggle and that we must all struggle toward existence in whatever capacity we may serve. Since we may not exist without the concurrence of another, we must all realize that we are a collaboration and thus one. Get it?
In gratitude of your collaboration,
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
As far as I can tell, God does not have a "struggle". It is us, His creatures, who have a "struggle", and the struggle originated from the fact that at some time, long ago, we learned to call some things "good" and others "bad", that is "we ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil", which only means that we now place labels, good or bad, on things and events.
I can also speculate why Eve gets the bad rap on this happening. It was probably a mother who decided that a tiger dragging her kid away from the clan was not "destiny" or "God's will", and screamed to her male companions to get their lazy asses off the ground, kill that tiger and get her kid back to her.
That could be how we started learning to label some things good and others bad.
Every year I see in our pond, families of geese who loose many of their offspring's to foxes, coyotes and other predators, but I don't think they have the mental mechanism to be able to call these predators "evil". I believe they just know that those other creatures are not helpful to the survival of you or your family and are to be avoided.
This is also when we started developing the left brain "interpreter" or "ego", which evaluates all perception signals in relation to past pain and/or future fears, before the signal is transmitted to the awareness unit which we are. This is why we are constantly wrestling with phantoms. That is, the horrible conditions and situations are not really there in the present time, but they are projected by our interpreter/ego, so they are real to us.
The "light" that we emit is not part of the visible light spectrum, not even in the infrared or ultraviolet portions. It is not in the electromagnetic spectrum either, of which visible light is part of. The Golden Flower technique of meditation calls hearing, the light of the ear, seeing, the light of the eyes, tasting the light of the tongue. The technique consists basically in "reverse gazing", that is, looking within, in which case the perceptions of the eyes, ears, etc. are called inner light. It also asks us to search for the light of the center within, but this center is not in our body, although there is where we can find it, because this "center" contains all in the universe. So we can say that this light we emit and are trying to perceive is in an awareness or consciousness spectrum, which contains all other spectrum's. This light is a form of energy, and it has force. It can also be called "attention"... to be aware. While meditating, whenever a body discomfort shows up, due to the posture one is holding, or any other reason, one simply has to gaze at it, look at it, pay attention to it, without any judgment, that is without wanting to get rid of it, push it away, and the discomfort will, in a short time, go away.
To me, the sole purpose of meditation is to unlearn the way we perceive, sense, the world around us. That is, to learn to use a different path of perception. We used to know that before the process of socialization/indoctrination into our respective cultures made it impossible to use. There is one in our right brain hemisphere that reports to the awareness unit only what is there, without making any calculations about future consequences based on past pain. Jill Bolte Taylor had that stroke of insight.
Once we are able to see only what is there in present time, unclouded by past pain and future fear, the world is very different. We can develop our other senses that permit us to communicate entirely with the "light" of consciousness.
But this will happen only if we practice the way. It can not be learned intellectually.
Namaste.
Bob
that no one and nothing exists without everyone and every thing else by which each is distinguised. Because everything is thus, interrelated and interdependent, nothing has independent existence (except conceptually). This inextricable enmeshment is one of the ways Buddhism defines the emptiness of self and objects - there is no independent identity. It has been my experience that my (and our) consciousness has evolved from a conditioned belief in being apart from everyone and everything else, to being a part of everything and everyone else (quantum physics, ecology, systems science, etc.) to being a participant with everything and everyone else.
In the Tibetan Dzogpa Chenpo tradition, at the end of their incarnations, practitioners who have who have exhausted the conceptual constructs, release the elements of their embodiment into light, their bodies shrink proportionally and disappear leaving no remainder or, more often leaving only fingernails and hair. This is called Ja Lus or rainbow body because of all the unusual light phenomena that occur in the immediate vicinity over the 10-day period that it takes. There are many records of this occuring in the Tibetan literature, some quite recent. In fact, I heard the Dalai Lama announced a Ningmapa in Eastern Tibet had just attained light body at a 10-day teaching on The Heart Suttra in the Shoreline Amphitheatre about 15 years ago. This is how "ascended" masters ascend.
So yes, we are most essentially light/love and with diligence, right understanding and practice we can return to our original nature.