friction

This world is friction. Walk is friction. Talk is friction. Thinking is friction. Relationship is friction. Even love needs a lubricant. The move toward homogeneity (sameness) and the move toward heterogeneity (difference) is ongoing. Neither goes away nor should or this world will disappear. These two simultaneous counter moves creating such friction are balanced by a third force: stillness. A dynamic stillness moving with (not against) the friction. This stillness is at our core.

framed

Our physical body has a skeleton, a framework for supporting it. So does our spiritual body. The spiritual body's frame is called a religion or philosophy. Whatever it is called, our spiritual body has a skeleton. It is a handy device for holding one's place, for getting around. One day it will dissolve too. Then where will the spiritual body be? Where it is right now when it has no frame.

Question: Why were you like you were?
Answer: I was framed, Your Honor.

who

Cosmotheophilosphy 101. Some believe there is a Divinity. Some believe there is not. My question is: Who is this believing? Who is this believing there is? Who is this believing there is not? Who? You might say "I" or "me." Who is this I? Who is this me? You might start to give some explanation, but that just sets up the same question: Who is it giving this explanation of who they are? Who is it that has a mind made up?

Jesus and Buddha

Jesus gave me love. Buddha opened my mind.

mister awake

To my Christian friends who may not know: Buddhism is not a religion and Buddha is not seen as a god. He was walking along after his awareness opened, noticeably different, radiant. Someone asked, "Are you a god?" He said, "No. I am awake." Buddha means awake. He is Mister Awake. Buddhism is a philosophy of life. One of its teachings is that attachment is suffering. He also said, "Don't listen to me. Go find out for yourself."

the three stooges of the mind

Amongst all the cosmic realms, the realms of conscious awareness, we live in the Realm of Desire. Three forces keep us here. One is wanting what we do not have. This craving, this never fulfilled greed, is a hell of eternal dissatisfaction. A second is not wanting what we do have. Hostility and anger. The willingness to throw it all away. The third is stupor, the willingness to shut down awareness. Ignore-ance. These are the three stooges of the mind: Greed, Hostility, and Stupor. They come in both subtle and blatant forms. We see them operating in others more easily than the mind rotting that takes place within ourselves. To escape their hold, a first step is to become aware of their existence. I learned this from Buddha, Mister Awake, the great psychologist. Jesus, the great heart, fully agrees.

relational christianity

Orthodox christianity is based upon sin being obliterated through sacrifice. Relational christianity is based upon ignorance being obliterated through awareness.

the same infinity

No answers exist "out there" that are not also "in here." The outer infinity and the inner infinity are the same infinity.

theological filter

A theology is a developed system of religious belief and theory. What many folk who say they rely upon the New Testament writings about Jesus as truth do not comprehend is that those writings are a theology, a developed system of religious belief. That system, composed of Greek, Roman, and Jewish thought, is superimposed on Jesus. Only writings about Jesus that fit that organized system of thought and belief were allowed into the New Testament. All other writings were excluded. In reading the New Testament, one is looking at Jesus through a filter.

conversion

On Conversion. A simple way to experience conversion (change of consciousness state) is, if you are sitting down stand up, or if you are standing up take two steps in any direction (watch out if you are standing atop a tall building), or go to the next room. We are "converting" from our old selves all the time yet may think we are the same.