A Pragmatic Faith ( Archived) (33)

I remember the Zen novels of Richard Bach
Chaos theory
And my early introduction to the calculus in the language of mathematics
In terms of Unity and Infinite Divisibility
Somehow I thought these were all the same subject,to the same point.
How we transformed them into Spirituality is an (appropriately) endless thread of it's own.
Kinda' fun though....among friends.

Tell.

I know about string theory but haven't heard of M-theory....Going to read up on it.

Hope you are well my friend...

Doing fine, sir. Hope you are doing well in return.

Human Nature.

It's a funny thing, humanity. We have such noble dreams, but as a species, we are by and large, bipolar. People have a tendency to look at things in black and white, and we try often to force the world into our vision of absolutes.

These (often unconscious) absolutes that we live by are what constitute our karma.

But absolutes don't exist in a world that appears solid, but is really just a complex hologram. Matter is, for all practical purposes, largely empty space. Ultimately a projection on the underlying screen of a deeper reality.

So it is this struggle between seperate versions of our absolutes that blends the world into the participatory universe that it tends to be. By our merged visons of absolutes we create our collective karma. By changing or eliminating these absolute definitions in our life, we change our Karma.

This is where faith comes in, nd a will for, first of all, an inner, personal revolution. Finally, discipline to follow through.

Will
Desire
Ritual

Alchemy.

What is the human condition?

Thomas Hobbes wrote that without government human life "is nasty, brutish and short" because our state of living would thus be the war of "all against all".

But it doesn't have to be that way. We just make it that way by being a**hole to one another if we have the opportunity. But, then again, maybe not. I grew up in an area of Oregon where we learned to take care of our own without much official government, because the Official government didn't get back up into the sticks in time to be worth much.

So we did for ourselves, and kept to ourselves. It wasn't really all that bad.

Robert Frost wrote that good fences make good neighbors. And locks only keep honest people honest. But honest people don't expect to get more than they give.

And that's the root of the human condition. Greed, Anger, and Stupidity.

Gandhi once said, "Live simply, so others may simply live." I think that phrase is becoming more critical to contemplate as the population continues to grow. American's hardly ever think about the true cost of the things they take for granted. Maybe its time to be learning some hard lessons. Tightening our belts, and doing for our own.

Namaste.

Ah but the catch is non attachment to outcome. Attachment blocks the manifestation.

The trick is to discern the illusion of attachment. How can you separate cause from effect? How can you affect the cause? You cannot, you are the cause AND the effect, and any interval is illusion.

I'm going to roll something and get a beer.
Anyone?
I seem to be flashing back to the sixties.