Relationships

There are so many. Some are big, some are small. Few of them last a lifetime and many flame up and vanish without a trace. Some are forced upon us through family bonds, and others we seek out in marriages.

What makes us want to get involved in relationships? Many will say a sense of belongingness. Humans are by nature are herding animals. They live in packs and travel alone or on groups.

Yet all of these are general assumptions that have been extrapolated to the masses through few educated countries that have sent scientists and anthropologists all over the world to interpret behaviors and actions of the people that speak a different language and have different customs.

Do you think that there might be a little misinterpretation occurring here? What actually causes people to want to have relationships? Ever heard a cliché "monkey see, monkey do"?

One sees and interprets, and then others see and interpret. Eventually a whole society starts from nothing but an interpretation of someone co-habiting the same area for a temporary period of time. Soon, a relationship based society becomes a norm rather than exception.

And here we are, seeking other's approvals, liking, and friendship. Don’t believe me? Go to Starbucks and start clipping your nails inside the. Now, try just biting your nails. Accomplishes the same result, but what a difference!

More to come...

Beginning of the life on earth

Many scientists can tell you when the earth planet was formed (4.54 billion years ago). However, what no one can tell you with any certainty is how we all came to be.

One theory is population through Adam and Eve. Another is random collisions that eventually formed the one cell molecules, AKA theory of evolution. However, when a person looks at either of these explanations, some convincing is required.

One thing that I've learned through my studies and seeking of enlightenment is whenever you have to convince yourself, your soul doesn't believe it. It’s a human nature, premonition to realize those things. Children at a young age notice when their soul doesn't agree with what they're being told. So the point that I want you to take away is that if you have to rationalize and make the belief/behavior "okay", then don't believe it or bother wasting your time on it.

Natural knowledge of this event, speaks against organized religions and scientific explanations. What natural knowledge tells me is that we as physical beings (and all living life on earth) have been engineered in phases, iterations, and with full premeditation. Even human beings as species have been designed and redesigned several times, and it can be seen now through different races, habits, and simply appearances.

Which one is superior? Which one is inferior? Which one came first? Which was last?

Does it matter? For thousands of years humans have been trying to prove their superiority over their neighbors by murdering them based on religion, sexual preferences, age, gender, race, color, etc. But why do any of these "facts" matter? How about, we're all inferior to our creators! Yet, we were all created in their images? That means that they're inferior to themselves, which in turn, makes us superior to them. :)

Beings that have designed us have full understanding of the concept of a soul and how it possesses a body. In fact, many races of extraterrestrials have participated in unison and individually in creating what we now call life on earth. From the tiniest microbe to the largest dinosaur, all was designed, revised, and produced.

Production for those beings is nothing close to what we see in labs or assembly lines. They produced us through thought that materialized into matter. Why can't scientists create simplistic life from atoms? Because they are using machines rather than thought itself. Most of the organisms on earth can't exist on their own, yet they do in spite of themselves.

Why were we created? Because the beings knew that for all to experience, a new world had to exist, where certain rules were applicable and certain were not. In all of the dimensions, we have all rule variations, which enable all experiences. The only hard concept to explain is the experience of non-existing, or experience of un-experiencing.

So the age-old question has been answered, we were created and now we even know by who, although we don't know how many, except we know that we were created by all.

More to come...

Love

It is the purest, most common, and truest feeling that we possess. Babies know it before birth, blind people see it, deaf hear it, and all feel it.

In our daily lives, we might express it in many ways, verbal and non-verbal. However, as we age, our definition of love becomes mere admiration, gratitude, or a decoration to an event.

Love, in its purest form is unconditional, all accepting, all forgiving. Rather than saying that I love you, if you do this, become this way, or because of that, it's learned love.

When you can look in a person's eyes and say “I love you”, no strings attached, not carrying if the love is reciprocated, accepted, or acknowledged, that is the true love. Face it, none of this is real, you can't hurt yourself or anyone else, so why not "expose" yourself? Place yourself in a vulnerable position and truly acknowledge another person's existence.

This is the “godly love”, what religion is teaching, but its preaching has perverted it. They say god is a loving god, but if you don't accept him, you'll go to hell :). If you do accept him, then heaven awaits you.

Love all, love all the moments, love unconditionally...

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Life

We call creation and existence, life. It is a beauty in its truest form, yet it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as new life or death. In a never-ending circle of existence, where there is no beginning or end, life and death are nothing more than our fictional creations.

When a soul materializes and is "born", nothing was created, as the soul always existed. When a soul leaves, "death" is a marker of change of state; just like birth.

We celebrate the birth and mourn death, but it should be not so. We teach young ones, when we should help them remember instead. Kids know everything that elders know, see the circle of life and relation between souls and dimensions.

The most painful experience that a soul will ever encounter is being limited in power and crippled by amnesia of existing in a physical body. So next time someone dies, remember them for whom they were to you and smile upon them as they are in no more pain and they have remembered all of their wisdom.

They look at us, in physical bodies, with sorrow and compassion, as they know how much pain we feel, all because we associate ourselves with the players rather than observers. Awakening is nothing more than realizing that you have become separate from the game and the character that you've been playing. Awake yourself and become free from pain.

Remember, you have come to this world with nothing, and that is all you'll take with you. The only purpose for existing in a body is to experience self, which in turn lets you experience all.

Rejoice and birth, rejoice at death, rejoice at every moment. Experience every moment; don't let this mighty experience go by unnoticed because of ignorance, self-absorption, and pursuit of someone else's goals and objectives.

More to come....

Disease

What is disease (illness)? It is something that interferes with your state of easiness (dis-ease). Where would we be if not for such a marvelous thing?

Illness brings families together, ends wars and conflicts, and calls for the greatest power available to human race: love and compassion. You might think, well, it feels bad, I don't like being sick, or I want to always be healthy. In fact, most of the Russian toasts are "на здоровье", which translates to "to health." What an oxymoron? You will poison your liver, kidneys, intestines, heart, and incapacitate your brain. Yet you're drinking to health....

Let's face it, when you're healthy, you could care less how well you breathe, how well your liver works, teeth chewing, or even notice your heart beating or the throat swallowing. But the moment you "catch" a disease, you notice your body. It’s the only body you have to get you through this life (more on this later), and you're poisoning it with tobacco, alcohol, decomposing food (nothing that we eat is still living, except for rare cases), and other drugs and toxins.

The argument that we present, or face whenever posing this question either verbally or mentally, come on, it feels good; I enjoy it; I'm addicted; what, I should quit eating?; and many others...

Why am I writing about such a bleak subject? Well, I have some disease and honestly, it’s neither good nor bad, yet everyone wishes me speedy recovery or giving me advice. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind; however, criticizing my past actions and associating them with my current state does 0% good to everyone. No one knows how or when they got sick, they are just sick at the present moment. Next moment they can choose to be well, and the illness goes away.

At the same time, this disease has given me a chance to pay attention to areas of my body that I usually overlook, sinuses, throat, and neck. Paying attention to the portions of the body, while body is in process of defending itself against a microbe can be more entertaining than any soap opera. At least in this case, you can relate and root for one or the other, it doesn’t matter who wins…

The challenge that is present, however, is staying present when the mind wants to shut down due to pressure, fever, or plain discomfort. Paying attention to the current moment gives you a full control over the next moment, and the moment after that, and after that, etc… Anyone can moan and groan regarding how much they don’t like being sick, but that does nothing more than solicit sympathy or creates fear of passing/catching the illness. Rather than feeling sorry for one, I ask you to rejoice in a natural process and observe it. Once you detach yourself from the character that you play, you will finally see the whole game. Seeing the game from a neutral point of view allows you to make a wise decision regarding the direction of the next moment, which doesn’t exist yet already occurred.

“Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!” - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei...

More to come…

Dream

As I get up, slowly make my way to the restroom and turn the lights on, my eyes start to hurt. Still trying to figure out what that barrage of noise, which is still ringing in my ears, was. Not sure if I'm really awake or still sleeping and pretending that the dream was that the alarm went off.

Shortly, I come to senses, do the morning ritual, and get out of the door into a fresh, crisp winter air. I dread making my way down the flight of stairs to an icicle car. As I shiver in the seat while the car warms up, I start to think.... What if I'm still asleep? What if this is just my imagination?

Shortly, I make my way to Starbucks, through interstate 35. The entire 5 minute trip got me thinking... Why bother with worrying about the bright headlights behind me, the 10 minute wait for coffee, or the $14 that I have spent there? How do I know that I'm not dreaming? How do I make sure that this is really happening? What if the alarm will go off in the next few seconds? Will I do the same thing; will I see the same cars, people, and events?

What if I'm not even in Dallas? What if I don't even own an alarm clock or a car?

Interesting questions, they are :). But nonetheless, what difference will it make? If you know that you're dreaming will you then act differently than if you're awake? Will you say and mean the same things? Will you care?

Actually, people like Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, and countless others who were awaken, didn't care what happens here. Why care about something that IS a dream?

At the same time, if you know that it is not real, a rehearsal if you will, why be ashamed, scared, paranoid, or cautious? Why fear mistakes? Do it all, regardless if you classify it as good or bad, it just is.

Some things carry consequences, others don't, but all are real, not actual. Everything in your life is real, as real as you choose to make it. Almost nothing is actually happening!

We all live 99.9999% of our lives looking through a rear-view mirror. Based on what we sensed (saw, touched, tasted, heard, smelled, or thought), we react. That's right folks, we react. The other 0.0001% we act. And most of the action we produce as little kids until about an age of 3 or 4. Slowly, however, we are taught to mind, respect, and behave a certain "acceptable" way.

Some things make sense, like not murdering, but others don't, such as eating veggies/meat. If all has a soul, and all is alive until it dies, ending any life prematurely is a murder! Don't murder that carrot! Let that ear of corn live! Don't even think about killing that ant!

What is acceptable today will be unacceptable tomorrow, and vice versa. Thinking that the government is being run by idiots that want to have power is acceptable. When a dictator comes to power, it becomes unacceptable to have those thoughts. "Think. It’s not illegal yet!" I like this quote, not sure who said it, but it doesn't matter.

One piece of truth, all action comes through the following steps:

1) Thought

2) Words

3) Actions

Without a thought, no words or actions will occur. Without words, no action can result. Without action, thoughts and words are just that, thoughts and words. To eliminate the action, eliminate the thought.

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Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu, what a wonderful feeling, right? You probably have experienced it at least once.... But you probably ask yourself, what is it?

I will explain my view of the soul and universe using circles (more on this later), but prior to that, let's look at this phenomenon.... When you see something happen, and then you see it happen again, whether a cat running across the street, and then running the same way again (like in movie The Matrix) (1) or a person talking to you and you "feel" that person already talked about the same thing utilizing exact same words (2).

The first example is overlap of universes, your awareness (existing) in one universe that is a time slice behind/ahead of your current one. These universes are so close together that very few things differ between them, that’s why your mind recognizes that this is what you currently experience (however, you’re not :)). In many instances, I believe that your mind actually rejects things from other universes as day-dreaming or imagination.

The latter example is you existing in the "future" of the current universe and then moving the pointer of your awareness back to the present time in the same universe and re-experiencing the same event again.

Children, I believe don’t have a set reference point and therefore they can experience all at once. That’s why parents tell their kids that it was either their imagination or quit making stuff up! :)

The difference between both of the examples is re-experiencing versus "knowing".

Now, premonition (AKA precognition).... The circle that is your soul is never ending or beginning.... All events and actions already exist; you just choose what to experience. When your awareness moves ahead in the circle of soul, you "see" the future before it happens... This future becomes when you stay the course on the autopilot. Believe it or not, but you're on autopilot most of your life.

How? Why? No way!
Yes, you are. Tell me what the last breath felt like? Was it deep, shallow? Was it sweet, sour, hot, cold?

Now, want to pilot your own life? Observe every breath, every moment, and every event. Don't judge, don't form conclusions, and don’t predict the future.... Just take it in!

You think the sunrise cares if you can see it or not?

More to come…

Let’s address the concept of soul…

Soul is a part of god (AKA all). Since everything is god (AKA all), that means that everything is (has in a traditional sense) a soul. All souls are one, since they’re created (partitioned) from all (AKA god). Now, if god is all and souls are all, that means that souls are god.

Looking at the Christian belief (what I’ve been exposed to the most in my life; however, born a Jew and not religion), god created man in his own image. What does that have to do with all souls being god? Well, Christian explanation is a perverted version of “all is god”. Since all is god, that means every single soul is god, and in turn, rather than worshiping outward, all souls should worship inward. Worshiping inward means to actually quiet your mind (the chatterbox between your 2 ears) and listen to yourself (the soul). You “speak” in a faint, quiet, yet sharp and clear voice. However, your mind speaks (in the most natural way) in a loud, incoherent, unorganized, dull manner.

One way to quiet your mind is through meditation. The purpose of yoga is to help you meditate. Unfortunately, for most of the yoga studios in America (the ones that I’ve been to in Dallas, TX), meditation takes a backseat to the physical practice. Fear or converting hard-core religious fanatics to another religion (Buddhism/Taoism/Hinduism), in my opinion has halted the spread of meditation (beyond 5 minutes after the physical yoga practice). So it’s easy to see that there’s layers upon layers that have been invented (imagined) to ensure that you can talk to your soul… your mind is persistent enough that it doesn’t want to let go of thoughts.

Once your chatterbox is silenced, you start to see who you really are. You start to see the connection between yourself, others, and the environment. Seeing where you fit in the big picture makes a difference between living the life blindly and living it with the full awareness, enjoyment, and appreciation of complexity, integration, and beautiful simplicity.

Simplicity is all around us, whether it’s watching a newborn child’s smile, thunderstorm forming, and ocean waves coming ashore, or breathing. Complexity; however, is the way that all of these things come together. How we can get everything we want (more on this later) and yet not infringe on others’ wants. The world is full of abundance, yet we see it as linear, 4-dimensional (length, width, height, and time). In actuality, the world is circular (and you thought that Columbus would drop off the face of the earth plane :) ).

Let’s look at the circularity of the world…

Average person perceives the world as flat (yet it’s a common knowledge that it’s round). You would have to be pretty high in the atmosphere to actually see the curvature of the planet. So, we see the world as nothing more as length X width X height X time… Time, what an interesting concept... Did you know that time doesn’t exist? Yes, it’s true. We use time as a reference point of it happened, it’s happening, or it will happen. Yet, if you experience a rare event (such a car accident, a particularly funny joke, or a curiously unique occurrence), it seems that the time just stops. In a car accident, you can see everything in absolute clarity, detail, and from all angles. You wonder how come I didn’t turn the wheel, duck, or just got out of the way. Well, your mind has been conditioned by the society that time always moves, and you can do nothing but observe.

All of this becomes a mute point when you realize that time doesn’t exist. Want to see 5 minutes last 5 hours? Stop your chatterbox and you’ll see. When your mind is not thinking (on a runaway train at 5,000 thoughts per second), time simply stops for you.

So, without time, what is there? Well, all of the past, present, and future are occurring all at once. You’re simply choosing a reference point from which you want to observe those occurrences. Once you realize the strength of your mind, you’ll be able not only to travel to past, but also the future. Future is a very interesting topic which I’ll cover later… Do try to understand how a single circle of past, present, and future revolves around you. Once you start to understand, throw in infinite number of circles around infinite instances of you (which exist in infinite amount of dimensions), and that is your soul.

So you see; harming your self is impossible. Harming your soul, which is a near-impossible task as you’d have to harm all everywhere at every time.

Jesus of Nazareth (AKA Jesus Christ), has perfected the instance. Once your soul in all of the dimensions that you exist in performs the same thing all of the time, you become “enlightened”. That means that your soul energy is joined together everywhere and your thoughts, words, and actions carry that much weight. You can say a word, and someone might hear you. But if billion trillions of you say that word, guess what? A lot more will hear you. :)

The purpose of this blog is to explore the enlightenment journey, challenge your thinking/reasoning, and overall simply entertain you…

More to come…

In the beginning, the time before time, there was all...

...and all was neither good nor bad, but just was/is/will be.

Now, to better explain the concepts, I think that some terminology must be described.

Reality - something (event, deed, object, subject, action, etc) that we perceive to take place.

Actuality - what is, something that occurs, exists, acts, etc regardless of our perception. A good example is atoms; they exist, although we can't see them, so do micro organisms, etc.

Time - a circular (never ending, never beginning) frame of reference. This is nothing more than a way that humans refer to events (past, present, future); however, all events exist and occur simultaneously.

Space - distance between 2 specific objects, emptiness and vacuum don't exist in their absolute.

God - all things that are thinkable and not

More definitions will follow :).

I particularly enjoyed Neale Donald Walsch's "Conversations with God", and I completely agree with his explanation of the time before time, so in an abbreviated form, here it is:

God was everywhere, one and all. There was no place where god wasn't, since a mere thought of that place prompted god to be there. So how can god know what god is? God split itself into 2. Now 2 portions of god can observe each other. That was nice, but still, many observances and experiences could not be, so god started dividing into smaller and smaller portions; that, we currently call "souls". Each soul is unique, thus god can experience each unique attribute of self. As new unique attributes became needed (evolved from experience), they appeared. After all, god is everywhere.

Now, the tough part, you are what you are not. What does that mean? Well, you can't be who you're not, so in order to experience who you are, you should experience who you aren't. Example: you can't say that you're not a murderer until you murder and realize that it’s not your cup of tea. You can't say that you're a teacher until you experience yourself as not a teacher and then as a teacher. Who knows, may be you're a student? :)

So in order to experience, some sort of a sand box had to be created to instill the basic rules for souls to determine who they're not.

Viola, here comes earth (and all of the planets and galaxies)... To create the matter, a thought is needed. In fact, creation first comes from thought, then communication (current human beings use speech), and then action. If a thought is powerful enough, it will involve all 3 aspects at once. Therefore, god thought and so it became.

Let me take a little detour and address the bible version, god said let there be light and there was light. I don't want you to feel left out; god didn't do it for you! You're the one who was speaking, you're god! I know, hard to digest, especially for hard-core religious followers (more on this later). At the beginning there was all, nothing was created, it was just changed from one state of reality to another, in actuality, it all stayed the same. You're a soul, realizing self in a flesh; yet you can't hurt yourself.

We're back on the highway.... With a thought, reality is shaped. Reality doesn't exist without you "thinking it up", actually, you're making all of this up, including the time that you're spending reading it, you already read it, know it, felt it.... Now you're just re-experiencing it :)

Matter as we know it, is nothing more than our imagination hard at work visualizing and tricking your senses into believing that walls are solid, fire is red, sky is blue, and water is wet.

Actually, it’s all energy that takes matter-like qualities at different frequencies (vibrations). In eastern beliefs, sound of “aum” or “om” is considered to be the sound of everything, so a frequency can create and change....

Image courtesy of http://www.cafepress.com/nightmage/2299485

More to come...

Meaning of Life

We at one point or another, become enamored with the "meaning of life". Some people spend seconds pondering this question... yet others spend years, decades, and at times (for the most of us), lifetimes. Some turn to religion (God as we know him/her/it), some to eastern practices (yoga, meditation, reike), yet others choose the path of narcotics (legal and illegal drugs).

Where does that leave the humanity? Well, I think that we end up being more lost than found… We search, yet in process of searching, we not only don’t know the way, but we also close our eyes. When we are sure that we can’t see, we tie our hands behind our backs and then jump up and down… Crazy, isn’t it? But it’s true!

Note of caution before you start calling me crazy, insane, or plain dumb:

THIS BLOG IS WHOLLY MADE UP, INVENTED, AND ASSEMBLED BY ME! NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE MEANT TO SERVE AS GUIDANCES, LAWS, OR RULES. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BECOME A RELIGION OR A FOLLOWING. IF YOU CHOOSE TO ARGUE WITH MY THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, OR OPINIONS, GO FOR IT, BUT THINK BEFORE YOU START THE ARGUMENT OF WHETHER YOU WILL EVER WIN AGAINST SOMETHING THAT IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG.

Now, with that little bit of my chest, let’s get to it…

Meaning of life is simple, elegant, sexy, and straight forward: experience yourself in situations that you create, events that you call forth, and with people/objects/subjects that you choose.

You might say: “WHAT? I didn’t choose the situation that I’m in right now! I didn’t ask for that event to happen to me! All of those people were there, regardless of me! I couldn’t do anything about that object!”

Very good points and arguments (and I’m sure that you can arrive at many more at a drop of a hat, hatchet, or a dime… whatever floats your boat). However, NOTHING IN UNIVERSE HAPPENS BY CHANCE. I know; it’s hard to digest…

So let’s start from the very beginning…

Before the beginning

This is my first attempt at jotting all of my experiences, thoughts, and beliefs in a semi-cohesive format...

Perhaps an eBook will follow... we shall see :)