What Christians seem to have overlooked for 2000 years is that god is existence. God calls himself I AM, translating Hebrew yesh, meaning existence [life, everything, the whole enchilada, nothing excepted]. In the early centuries, Christians were massacring each other in the 1000s over whether jesus was like god or same as god. Homo-ousian or homoi-ousian. Ousis is god is existence. Ousis, yesh, esse, and is, are all cognate.
As soon as there is one atom outside god, god isn't existence. As soon as there is one thing that is not god, god is not infinite.
Existence is infinite, because the existence of nonexistence is selfcontradictory, ie, it is eternally impossible. We can imagine nonexistence; we do it by sticking existence and non together. And then we frighten ourselves with nonexistence, as children frighten themselves with monsters in the wardrobe. Nonexistence is impossible, so it is all existence, ie, existence is infinite. [Empty space has at least the property of distance. If empty space didn't exist, all the suns would be touching.]
The [eating of the fruit of the] knowledge of good and evil is the FALL. Religion has been fallen since it made god good. Isaiah 45.7: I make peace and I make trouble [evil, calamity, in different translations]. As soon as god is good, god is not existence, he is not allpowerful, he is not allknowing, he is not infinite, he is not the greatest, he is not the creator of everything, and he is not the one god.
The idealisation of god is idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping something less than the infinite, the all, the mystery of life, of existence.
All our ideas of god are wrong. Whatever we can fit in this little head is finite, limited, partial.
The knowledge of good and evil is judging, is misjudging, because we cannot fit existence into our little head, nor have proper standards to judge. To experience god, we must abandon our little heads, and use our infinite mind, our self, our atman, which can fit god into itself, because it is god.
Be still and know I am god. That is, abandon [for a time] finite mind, and thus enter infinite mind, which is god, and which can experience god, that is, experience the totality all at once. The totality has no form because it is all forms, no colour, nor white nor black, because it all colours and white and black. The widest definition of god is neither-this-nor-that. God is also both-this-and-that. God is the grey you get when you stir up all colours together.
Existence is one simple thing, and yet it is energy [both energy and matter, energy, which cannot be created or destroyed] consciousness existence experience excitement bliss success joy love etc etc.
When you experience the world or juggle ideas, it is like reading a book in the bath, and thus not noticing the bath. When you forget the book for a moment, you experience the bath. So to experience existence, you stop the finite mind.
God is good in a 'higher' way, a sublime, great, divine way, which includes good and evil. This is best expressed in the taoist symbol: the dynamic of opposites is perfection, the revolving of finities is the dance of heaven.
Only those who see the big picture are awake, Heraclitus. Only those who leave off experiencing part of the picture realise existence. Judging in terms of good and bad distracts us from, blinds us to, the whole. This is part of the divine plan. Things are experienced through their opposites. But what opposite can infinity have? Nonexistence doesn't exist. So the only way god can experience himself is by creating part-consciousness, the finite mind. Then there is contrast, when people [god] travel between part and whole consciousness, and then there is experience. Just stop prefering, Buddha. Give up judging, which is always misjudging. Take in, James Joyce. I laugh at those who seek god as I would laugh at a fish [in the ocean] seeking water, Augustine.
This perfect eternal synergy between part consciousness [duality, judging, finite mind, division, separation, distinction, manyness] and whole consciousness is what is portrayed in the taoist symbol, in the Y as the Pythagorean mystery symbol, in Diana Trivia [three-ways], in the tree of life, in many other ways. It is expressed in: I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known so I created the world, in: God locks himself out [as man] and himself comes [as teachers] to open the door to himself, in: The one in the many, the many in the one, when this is realised, no more worry about not being perfect, in: God delivers everyone to disobedience [disharmony with, ignorance of, the whole] so that he can have mercy on all [Romans 11.32], in the story of the prodigal son, in Eliot's: we leave home in order to return and see it for the first time. It can be seen dancing in supreme joy on the Chi-Rho page of the Book of Kells. It is performed when we put together a jigsaw puzzle, when mother and child play peekaboo. It is expressed in the myths of Uranus, Osiris, Arkas, Humpty Dumpty, etc chopped up and put together again, in the story of the blind men experiencing the elephant in limited ways. It is good to let lie before you and thus take to heart what is, the beingness of beings, Parmenides. Know thyself, ie, experience your infinite mind, self. The desire and pursuit of the whole is love, Plato. This eternal rescuing of himself from the illusion of good and bad is the eternal performance of love. Who goes beyond knowledge [whole knowledge] and ignorance [part knowledge] realises this existence is a mansion of mirth, Ramakrishna. All is dance, and dance is all.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
problem of good and evil
To understand good and evil, you have to understand the problems of unity. The unitary principle was sitting around, contemplating hisherits infinite consciousness and awareness of its excellence, when it began to feel something, which it later identifed as bored. [I will call the unitary principle It or, better, I, because it's more unified-looking.] I felt there was something missing in its life. I couldnt have a conversation with itself because it already knew everything it was going to say. There was nowhere to go because I was already there. Nothing to do because it had already eaten itself and didn't need anything more. So I 'created' a number of itself. But there still wasn't anything to do or say or anything. So it 'created' itself in parts, and then the parts were able to talk to one another because each part didn't know everything. But I's house was still painted all white, and there still wasn't any TV or world. So I divided up the white of itself into its constituent colours and gave each colour a different place. But pretty soon the conversation died away: everyone could pretty soon see all the colours. So I felt that it was on to a good idea, and began dividing itself up more and more. In fact, got quite carried away, and separated solid, liquid and gas, moved a lot of energy into suns, created lots of bodies which could experience only part of all this manyness and variety, so everyone had things to tell, and places to go to tell people what they knew. But still, again, knowledge got around, and it was pretty hard to keep the party going. So I introduced another barrier, languages, which slowed things up a bit and gave more interest to existence. In short, I had to keep thinking up barriers and separations to keep the party going. Things got pretty exciting. Individuals developed world views from their partial experience and then some pretty lively discussions were held. The party was beginning to look good. The noise level was up and that's a good sign, as every hostess knows. In the meantime, I was thinking up lots of new separations. This gave people somewhere to go, places to see, people to set straight, lively discussions! It was about this time that I said: and it was good. And it was good to be able to say things, without some know-all saying: I knew that. Somewhere along the line, eating developed, and this was good, because for the first time you could eat something that didn't taste exactly like self. And a great new idea sprang up at some stage, that you could unite with other bits of I. This hadn't been possible with just simple I. Each being had only part of the whole, so you could get back some way towards that whole feeling by uniting. This is something that I hadn't anticipated, but I saw it was good. And then there was another idea, you could fight. This was like uniting, but it looked different. It was a way of mingling, without the redundancy of actually giving up your individuality. And there was plundering. Some people felt the truth inside them, and were not so desperate to get back to big I. Others had less instinct of this, but from big-I energy felt compelled to grab up a lot of the other bits of self lying around in partland. I could have made all the parts equally aware, but the range of insight made for more interesting viewing. And there was another thing, death. This was interesting. Because I's part-selves were ignorant of the whole, they had an idea of notself, of stopping being self, of falling into notself. I laughed when it saw this. What fools, it thought. Everybody knows that existence of nonexistence is self-contradictory, don't they? But it was a fun trick to play on itself. It would tell them later, when it had had its fun scaring the bejabers out of them. I knew that nothing was wrong in the long run, so why not have fun teasing them. I could see that the little I's just 'went back to' the big I. And anyway, it was more interesting than endless infinite knowing, the big yawn, the abyss of boredom. And of course the little I's were the big I. The big I was just playing with himself. The part-consciousness of the little I's was all the time increasing, and 'people' [as I came to call them/himself] were getting more and more lost, and the practical joke was going too far, and so I kept sending various people to bring them back towards unitary consciousness, so they could see everything was really all right all the time, and nothing was really bad. People only had to switch off their part consciousness, and they were in whole consciousness. It worked out fine, because all those who weren't really distressed too much didn't want to know the truth, and everyone who was too distressed sought out the truth. So everything worked out perfectly. I oscillates eternally between part knowledge and full knowledge, getting the best of both 'worlds'. It was like rugby, I reflected. You played for fun, and if it got too much, you went off for a while. If you got killed, you immediately were back in big-I-ness, and got perfectly fixed up. And of course as soon as you got fixed up, all you wanted to do was get back in the fray where all the colour and action and challenge and play and excitement were. If you had lost your zest for the game, and were wandering around saying things like: Why?! Why me?! It hurts! I hate the game! there was always someone to explain it all, and show them the way back to big-I. But these were very few. Most people were happy seeking the truth, discussing endlessly, trying to fit the pieces together, studying pieces, playing the various games, eating, making love, hating, etc.
god = existence
What Christians seem to have overlooked for 2000 years is that god is existence. God calls himself I AM, translating Hebrew yesh, meaning existence [life, everything, the whole enchilada, nothing excepted]. In the early centuries, Christians were massacring each other in the 1000s over whether jesus was like god or same as god. Homo-ousian or homoi-ousian. Ousis is god is existence. Ousis, yesh, esse, and is, are all cognate.
As soon as there is one atom outside god, god isn't existence. As soon as there is one thing that is not god, god is not infinite.
Existence is infinite, because the existence of nonexistence is selfcontradictory, ie, it is eternally impossible. We can imagine nonexistence; we do it by sticking existence and non together. And then we frighten ourselves with nonexistence, as children frighten themselves with monsters in the wardrobe. Nonexistence is impossible, so it is all existence, ie, existence is infinite. [Empty space has at least the property of distance. If empty space didn't exist, all the suns would be touching.]
The [eating of the fruit of the] knowledge of good and evil is the FALL. Religion has been fallen since it made god good. Isaiah 45.7: I make peace and I make trouble [evil, calamity, in different translations]. As soon as god is good, god is not existence, he is not allpowerful, he is not allknowing, he is not infinite, he is not the greatest, he is not the creator of everything, and he is not the one god.
The idealisation of god is idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping something less than the infinite, the all, the mystery of life, of existence.
All our ideas of god are wrong. Whatever we can fit in this little head is finite, limited, partial.
The knowledge of good and evil is judging, is misjudging, because we cannot fit existence into our little head, nor have proper standards to judge. To experience god, we must abandon our little heads, and use our infinite mind, our self, our atman, which can fit god into itself, because it is god.
Be still and know I am god. That is, abandon [for a time] finite mind, and thus enter infinite mind, which is god, and which can experience god, that is, experience the totality all at once. The totality has no form because it is all forms, no colour, nor white nor black, because it all colours and white and black. The widest definition of god is neither-this-nor-that. God is also both-this-and-that. God is the grey you get when you stir up all colours together.
Existence is one simple thing, and yet it is energy [both energy and matter, energy, which cannot be created or destroyed] consciousness existence experience excitement bliss success joy love etc etc.
When you experience the world or juggle ideas, it is like reading a book in the bath, and thus not noticing the bath. When you forget the book for a moment, you experience the bath. So to experience existence, you stop the finite mind.
God is good in a 'higher' way, a sublime, great, divine way, which includes good and evil. This is best expressed in the taoist symbol: the dynamic of opposites is perfection, the revolving of finities is the dance of heaven.
Only those who see the big picture are awake, Heraclitus. Only those who leave off experiencing part of the picture realise existence. Judging in terms of good and bad distracts us from, blinds us to, the whole. This is part of the divine plan. Things are experienced through their opposites. But what opposite can infinity have? Nonexistence doesn't exist. So the only way god can experience himself is by creating part-consciousness, the finite mind. Then there is contrast, when people [god] travel between part and whole consciousness, and then there is experience. Just stop prefering, Buddha. Give up judging, which is always misjudging. Take in, James Joyce. I laugh at those who seek god as I would laugh at a fish [in the ocean] seeking water, Augustine.
This perfect eternal synergy between part consciousness [duality, judging, finite mind, division, separation, distinction, manyness] and whole consciousness is what is portrayed in the taoist symbol, in the Y as the Pythagorean mystery symbol, in Diana Trivia [three-ways], in the tree of life, in many other ways. It is expressed in: I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known so I created the world, in: God locks himself out [as man] and himself comes [as teachers] to open the door to himself, in: The one in the many, the many in the one, when this is realised, no more worry about not being perfect, in: God delivers everyone to disobedience [disharmony with, ignorance of, the whole] so that he can have mercy on all [Romans 11.32], in the story of the prodigal son, in Eliot's: we leave home in order to return and see it for the first time. It can be seen dancing in supreme joy on the Chi-Rho page of the Book of Kells. It is performed when we put together a jigsaw puzzle, when mother and child play peekaboo. It is expressed in the myths of Uranus, Osiris, Arkas, Humpty Dumpty, etc chopped up and put together again, in the story of the blind men experiencing the elephant in limited ways. It is good to let lie before you and thus take to heart what is, the beingness of beings, Parmenides. Know thyself, ie, experience your infinite mind, self. The desire and pursuit of the whole is love, Plato. This eternal rescuing of himself from the illusion of good and bad is the eternal performance of love. Who goes beyond knowledge [whole knowledge] and ignorance [part knowledge] realises this existence is a mansion of mirth, Ramakrishna. All is dance, and dance is all.
As soon as there is one atom outside god, god isn't existence. As soon as there is one thing that is not god, god is not infinite.
Existence is infinite, because the existence of nonexistence is selfcontradictory, ie, it is eternally impossible. We can imagine nonexistence; we do it by sticking existence and non together. And then we frighten ourselves with nonexistence, as children frighten themselves with monsters in the wardrobe. Nonexistence is impossible, so it is all existence, ie, existence is infinite. [Empty space has at least the property of distance. If empty space didn't exist, all the suns would be touching.]
The [eating of the fruit of the] knowledge of good and evil is the FALL. Religion has been fallen since it made god good. Isaiah 45.7: I make peace and I make trouble [evil, calamity, in different translations]. As soon as god is good, god is not existence, he is not allpowerful, he is not allknowing, he is not infinite, he is not the greatest, he is not the creator of everything, and he is not the one god.
The idealisation of god is idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping something less than the infinite, the all, the mystery of life, of existence.
All our ideas of god are wrong. Whatever we can fit in this little head is finite, limited, partial.
The knowledge of good and evil is judging, is misjudging, because we cannot fit existence into our little head, nor have proper standards to judge. To experience god, we must abandon our little heads, and use our infinite mind, our self, our atman, which can fit god into itself, because it is god.
Be still and know I am god. That is, abandon [for a time] finite mind, and thus enter infinite mind, which is god, and which can experience god, that is, experience the totality all at once. The totality has no form because it is all forms, no colour, nor white nor black, because it all colours and white and black. The widest definition of god is neither-this-nor-that. God is also both-this-and-that. God is the grey you get when you stir up all colours together.
Existence is one simple thing, and yet it is energy [both energy and matter, energy, which cannot be created or destroyed] consciousness existence experience excitement bliss success joy love etc etc.
When you experience the world or juggle ideas, it is like reading a book in the bath, and thus not noticing the bath. When you forget the book for a moment, you experience the bath. So to experience existence, you stop the finite mind.
God is good in a 'higher' way, a sublime, great, divine way, which includes good and evil. This is best expressed in the taoist symbol: the dynamic of opposites is perfection, the revolving of finities is the dance of heaven.
Only those who see the big picture are awake, Heraclitus. Only those who leave off experiencing part of the picture realise existence. Judging in terms of good and bad distracts us from, blinds us to, the whole. This is part of the divine plan. Things are experienced through their opposites. But what opposite can infinity have? Nonexistence doesn't exist. So the only way god can experience himself is by creating part-consciousness, the finite mind. Then there is contrast, when people [god] travel between part and whole consciousness, and then there is experience. Just stop prefering, Buddha. Give up judging, which is always misjudging. Take in, James Joyce. I laugh at those who seek god as I would laugh at a fish [in the ocean] seeking water, Augustine.
This perfect eternal synergy between part consciousness [duality, judging, finite mind, division, separation, distinction, manyness] and whole consciousness is what is portrayed in the taoist symbol, in the Y as the Pythagorean mystery symbol, in Diana Trivia [three-ways], in the tree of life, in many other ways. It is expressed in: I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known so I created the world, in: God locks himself out [as man] and himself comes [as teachers] to open the door to himself, in: The one in the many, the many in the one, when this is realised, no more worry about not being perfect, in: God delivers everyone to disobedience [disharmony with, ignorance of, the whole] so that he can have mercy on all [Romans 11.32], in the story of the prodigal son, in Eliot's: we leave home in order to return and see it for the first time. It can be seen dancing in supreme joy on the Chi-Rho page of the Book of Kells. It is performed when we put together a jigsaw puzzle, when mother and child play peekaboo. It is expressed in the myths of Uranus, Osiris, Arkas, Humpty Dumpty, etc chopped up and put together again, in the story of the blind men experiencing the elephant in limited ways. It is good to let lie before you and thus take to heart what is, the beingness of beings, Parmenides. Know thyself, ie, experience your infinite mind, self. The desire and pursuit of the whole is love, Plato. This eternal rescuing of himself from the illusion of good and bad is the eternal performance of love. Who goes beyond knowledge [whole knowledge] and ignorance [part knowledge] realises this existence is a mansion of mirth, Ramakrishna. All is dance, and dance is all.
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