NikolaiI
06-16-2009, 12:19 AM
You can't help being what you are. Once you become a good person, you cannot help being good. You are bound by certain ties of action, behavior. The only way to be sane in this life is to be good. Life is fragile, life is fleeting; therefore, the only sane recourse in life is to seek love with all one's being. The only recourse is to always speak life, to give one's all to life and one's ideals.
One must be totally committed to life. My martial arts teacher always taught that one must be always committed. He said one time he was at a bar, and some guy was wanting to fight him. And he said to the guy, very seriously, "If we are going to fight, we will go outside, and fight." And he let him know he was serious, and would be committed in the fight, and the guy did not want to fight. My martial arts teacher was a teacher of Aikido, of which the main goal is non-conflict, and so this action by ending the conflict before any fight was the best outcome.
If there is any illness the best way is to focus on the illness, focus on the present moment of experiencing the pain, and notice how it is temporary. Even at the end of our life we should be this way, simply focus on the pain and whatever is causing us to end life, and then be committed to a certain ideal, or type that we have set up for ourselves. When we die, we must be committed to something, no matter who we are. How can we die, not being committed to anything?
So a good person, who has lived his life and done many things, at different times, and developed an inner sense of well-being or something even deeper than that, of goodness, and peace, will then at their death be committed to that. At one's death, one will at least, invariably realize, the presence of something much greater than oneself, in fact, the presence of the entire universe. And at death, one will realize that one was always the actual whole of the universe. At least this is the ideal death possible. For think - is it necessary for it to be true? Isn't it necessarily true? Doesn't the divine person of Christ, or the Buddha, make the existence of a reality which could create them, a necessity? Buddha's vision was infinite enligthenment for every living being ever to exist. Doesn't the possibility of infinite enlightenment necessitate the existence of a divine person? Our universe is precisely as good or as bad as we create.
The first and most important question, which is not addressed by 99% of humans, even writers or thinkers, even past or present, is this - "what is the universe"? And secondly or equal importance, "who am I"?
The existence of persons who never ask the question "who am I?" is not evidence that it doesn't exist or it isn't important. Actually, all perspective comes from divine perspective, and nothing exists except the records of the universe. To get closer to the divine primarily means to get more ability of movement. Until you progress closer to the divine, at which point you reach complete freedom. God is infinitely free; God is the Witness, while the material universe is like a book to be read, or a painting. There is nothing but infinity. The ultimate question is "do we exist?" and the only answer is no; we are but information carved into an infinite gem which is God; we are a story told, an infinite number of times, by a tree; and the final conclusion to the story is that everything is one; the infinite universe is every single atom.
In addressing my own inherent nature I should really be addressing the question of the nature of a photon of light. For what is the essential difference between myself and a photon of light? Every energy in the universe is recycled, and actually, at one time, I was a photon light, and at one time, I will again become a photon of light. At what point do I realize that I am one and the same as other photons of lights, and indeed of all photons of light in the universe.
One must be totally committed to life. My martial arts teacher always taught that one must be always committed. He said one time he was at a bar, and some guy was wanting to fight him. And he said to the guy, very seriously, "If we are going to fight, we will go outside, and fight." And he let him know he was serious, and would be committed in the fight, and the guy did not want to fight. My martial arts teacher was a teacher of Aikido, of which the main goal is non-conflict, and so this action by ending the conflict before any fight was the best outcome.
If there is any illness the best way is to focus on the illness, focus on the present moment of experiencing the pain, and notice how it is temporary. Even at the end of our life we should be this way, simply focus on the pain and whatever is causing us to end life, and then be committed to a certain ideal, or type that we have set up for ourselves. When we die, we must be committed to something, no matter who we are. How can we die, not being committed to anything?
So a good person, who has lived his life and done many things, at different times, and developed an inner sense of well-being or something even deeper than that, of goodness, and peace, will then at their death be committed to that. At one's death, one will at least, invariably realize, the presence of something much greater than oneself, in fact, the presence of the entire universe. And at death, one will realize that one was always the actual whole of the universe. At least this is the ideal death possible. For think - is it necessary for it to be true? Isn't it necessarily true? Doesn't the divine person of Christ, or the Buddha, make the existence of a reality which could create them, a necessity? Buddha's vision was infinite enligthenment for every living being ever to exist. Doesn't the possibility of infinite enlightenment necessitate the existence of a divine person? Our universe is precisely as good or as bad as we create.
The first and most important question, which is not addressed by 99% of humans, even writers or thinkers, even past or present, is this - "what is the universe"? And secondly or equal importance, "who am I"?
The existence of persons who never ask the question "who am I?" is not evidence that it doesn't exist or it isn't important. Actually, all perspective comes from divine perspective, and nothing exists except the records of the universe. To get closer to the divine primarily means to get more ability of movement. Until you progress closer to the divine, at which point you reach complete freedom. God is infinitely free; God is the Witness, while the material universe is like a book to be read, or a painting. There is nothing but infinity. The ultimate question is "do we exist?" and the only answer is no; we are but information carved into an infinite gem which is God; we are a story told, an infinite number of times, by a tree; and the final conclusion to the story is that everything is one; the infinite universe is every single atom.
In addressing my own inherent nature I should really be addressing the question of the nature of a photon of light. For what is the essential difference between myself and a photon of light? Every energy in the universe is recycled, and actually, at one time, I was a photon light, and at one time, I will again become a photon of light. At what point do I realize that I am one and the same as other photons of lights, and indeed of all photons of light in the universe.