~~~How Do You See This Earth?~~~

Neil Moores................For comparison and in connection with this conversation; historically, one can distinguish four different world-views on reality:
1. Physical realism. Only the physical world exists, so it is observing itself.
2. Solipsism. Only the mind exists, so the physical world is like a dream created by the mind.
3. Dualism. The physical world exists, but is also observed by another higher world beyond it.
4. Virtual realism. The physical world is a construct generated by non-physical quantum processing.

 

 

David Grimm..........I think there is one more world view not mentioned above - pantheism, which is similar to the Vedanta philosophy.

 

 

We live where all that we see is impermanent......

how deep it goes

what it is connected to

the very nature of who we are is when analyzed by thought debatable....

and isn't that kinda funny?

that reality isn't self evident?

because it's the self that distorts reality....

like the double slit experiment?

 

knowing creates illusions

thought is the main ingredient of maya

reality is hidden from the created

 

we go to sleep

we wake up

 

in 1976 i went to sleep

and dreamed life as a fundamental christian

in Lamb of God

in 1978 i got kicked out

and that woke me up

 

from thought stilled by true belief the best drug of all

to uncertainty & anxiety knowing life is on a razor's edge

 

i go to sleep dreaming i'm one thing

then reality wakes me up saying no you're not

 

i've done this a few times

i guess i'm always trying to be comfortable

find an image & live behind it

make things easy

live by habit

sleepwalk

pave reality with the asphalt of thought

 

i came to California to caddie @ Pebble Beach

be in play to visit my mother & brother's family

but by death or life they've all flown the coup

the mother died

and The Old Folk's Home

an empty nest

 

it's time to wake up

again

 

impermanence

change

seeing life most differently

with each passing decade

 

death to life

old wineskins can't hold new wine

manna from heaven lasts only for today

 

we live in the moment

and when we die?

 

that would be the ever-new now

the timeless moment?

 

the awakening.....

from the dream of this lifetime

 

going to sleep

waking up

 

thought

death

 

illusions & maya

truth & reality

 

that's how i see this earth......

that seems to be the game of consciousness

we play here.

 

:)

 

 

~~~~~~Impermanence~~~~~~

Everything is impermanent, except the love of God.

~ Neem Karoli Baba

~~~~~~~~A Sower Went Out To Sow~~~~~~~~

   There are only two disappointments in this life: the first is when you don't get what you want, and the second is when you do.

   How can I live a life of fulfillment, when the most important thing that exists in all of creation, the creator.....seems....abscent? Looking for life in the things of this world, in their pleasures, always trapped in the realm of beginnings and endings? Sex? Power? Position? Knowledge? Always seeking the timeless in the dreamworld of time? Lost in illusions? Wandering through impermanence? I explored what society, mankind, had to offer. Limited by my conditioning, I had not the eyes to see.

   When you try, and fail, it's like Dylan's lyrics in Love Minus Zero/No Limit: "There's no success like failure and failure's no success at all." Negation, it's the way I navigated through the illusions of this life, on my spiritual pilgrimage, and every path that I took in the end reached a dead end. Failure? Negation? Dead Ends?  What good could spring from such a meandering life?

   Questions. I started asking God questions. Not with my head, full of images, but with my broken heart, and these questions were the seeds that a sower went out to sow. Honest questions born within personal brokeness. Genuine questions, holding out no hope of becoming anything at all. Questions that abandoned all paths, even myself, and most of these questions were a simple one.....why?

   Seeds in fertile ground, watered by the spiritual rains, nurtured by timeless love, the answers to my questions were born in their due season. Never as I expected, always new, of their own accord, and nature. And what fruit was born of all this? Only, trust in the life that sustains me, like a little child, and thankfulness, for all that I have been given.

  It's an impermanent, and violent, dreamworld we live in. All stocked up with maya. Born into it, the darkness of the abstract image. the sterility of thought, we are blind to the timeless. Born into Plato's Cave, we enter a realm where God seems to play Hide and Seek, and we have not the ability to find our way out, or our way home.

  Cosmic Consciousness? Enlightenment? Spiritual Ambition? How can you say you've become somebody when in the end you're not there?  When you see that everything's alive? That you are That? That the knower, the seeker, was always an illusion, and that God was hiding in the place we never expected God to be....inside us all....inside of everything?

  A sower went out to sow, we all ask the same questions and the difference in our answers springs from their source, as the life that asks them, also answers them.

   Thou Art That. 

The Endless Space Where Thought Cannot Enter

Kinfonet Quote of the Day: Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not.

It Is~~~The Seeing Of Things As They Actually Are~~~That Changes You