Thursday, January 19, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Just Like Bubbles
Imagine a vast expanse of air. Imagine a small child taking in a deep breath of that air, then blowing it out to make bubbles. The air travels from the expanse, into her lungs, then out again and is wrapped in a thin skin of bubble juice. The bubble floats up above the child, rising as she looks on with delight.
Our spiritual experience in life is much like the air in the bubble, if we were to think of it in physical terms. The problem we face is that as the air inside the bubble, we make the mistake of thinking instead that we are the bubble. Our personhood, or ego, is much like the skin of the bubble, holding us together in a seeming separate existence, giving us the illusion of separateness. The more we identify with the skin of the bubble, the more we lose touch with our expansive collective being.
Friday, November 25, 2011
R. Buckminster Fuller once said "God is a verb." For me God is beyond definition, God is Absolute Reality beyond limited existence.
For the purpose of this blog I use ‘The Absolute’ or 'Absolute Reality' as an alternative for the term 'God'.
In this website I get into ideas that have been around for thousands of years. You can find many of the concepts I cover in Hinduism, Christianity, earth based traditions, Buddhism, Taoism, and modern mystical teachings as well, such as the Power of Now, Law of Attraction, and others.
Although all these traditions and sources of wisdom might appear to be telling very different stories, once understood, the commonality between them becomes patently obvious
What I'm attempting to do though is ultimately fruitless. It is impossible to articulate what can't be defined in words. What I write is true in a sense of course, but inevitably falls far short of Absolute Truth since that can never by it's very nature be defined at all.
But that disclaimer said, I do my best to share what I can about my experience of the Absolute. I invite your comments and questions. I'm open to dialogue.
For the purpose of this blog I use ‘The Absolute’ or 'Absolute Reality' as an alternative for the term 'God'.
In this website I get into ideas that have been around for thousands of years. You can find many of the concepts I cover in Hinduism, Christianity, earth based traditions, Buddhism, Taoism, and modern mystical teachings as well, such as the Power of Now, Law of Attraction, and others.
Although all these traditions and sources of wisdom might appear to be telling very different stories, once understood, the commonality between them becomes patently obvious
What I'm attempting to do though is ultimately fruitless. It is impossible to articulate what can't be defined in words. What I write is true in a sense of course, but inevitably falls far short of Absolute Truth since that can never by it's very nature be defined at all.
But that disclaimer said, I do my best to share what I can about my experience of the Absolute. I invite your comments and questions. I'm open to dialogue.
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