There is only one classification that I have been able to find that seems irrefutable, impossible to dismiss. In the case of most polarized dichotomies, if you change your viewpoint on them, the opposition between the extremeties seem to dissolve. The only one I have been unable to find such a resolution to, is the division between existence and non-existence.
This is what leads me to believe that this might be the most basic fact of the universe. It seems an intuitive and correct assumption to state that existence is good, or positive, and non-existence is bad, or negative. If both these assumptions are correct, it follows that everything good is connected to existence. We might even take this one step further and state that the will towards existence is the foundation for anything that might be called good in the world.
And when I say everything, I mean everything. I´m not only talking about good in the moral sense, but also good as in quality, as in skilled, as in beautyful. Everything that is to be good, in any sense of that word, needs to have as it´s ultimate goal, the will to exist.
I need to make one remark before i continue. The will to existence must not be confused with the self preservation instincts of living beings. While this instinct most certainly stems from this will, they are not excactly the same thing, as the instict of a single individual is slightly perverted, by resistance caused by the tendency in the universe to seek non-existence, to target the existence af that one individual. Pure will to existence is a will to preserve the existence of All, of absolutely everything.
I will continue this line of reasoning at a later date.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Break on through
Energy travels from the inner core of existence and outward towards its outer layer, the layer we know as the physical universe. On this path, energy is subjected to resistance, and if resistance is allowed to hinder it, energy becomes corrupted. Corrupted energy turns destructive.
One of the strongest and purest manifestations of energy in our bodies is love. In those moments when you can feel unrestrained love for absolutely everything, energy flows freely through your body, without resistance. But for the most part, love is hampered by many things, and as a result it turns to hatred. Limitation is a form of resistance, so when you limit your love, as you do when you love a country instead of humanity as a whole for instance, you corrupt a part of your love-energy and turn it into negative feelings toward the inhabitants of other countries.
When someone harms the ones you love, your fear of this happening again, the hurt you feel, creates resistance that turns into thoughts of revenge and feelings of hatred. When you see this happen to someone else, your fear that this will also happen to you creates the need to allieviate that fear. This often results in a need to harm someone, anyone, a scapegoat. The act of harming creates the illusion of safety, the illusion that you have taken steps to protect yourself.
Having experienced many negative things in your life leaves residual resistance that makes acting destructively an attractive option. Lack of sleep creates resistance, lack of food creates resistance, spiritual or physical immobility creates resistance, many, many things create resistance in our bodies. It helps to live in a way that limits resistance. Physical and mental exercise, eating healthy food and so on makes it easier to live a life free of resistance, in effect it makes it easier to live a life that is good and constructive both to ourselves and those around us.
However, resistance will allways build up, and often you will not even notice it. Often, you will explain your hatred away as proper behaviour. Often, you will think that you live a good life, doing all the things a proper person should be doing, and so you will not see your own pettyness and the small hatreds you nurture towards certain people or groups of people. No one, except maybe the Buddha, are absolutely free of resistance, allways remember.
What is needed, when things are dark, when you become aware of your own shortcomings, when you feel a pang of guilt at something you have done, when you doubt your own standing in the social environment. What is needed is that you reach in to the deep recesses of yourself, finding the light, the pure energy that emanates from that place, and from that place shoot out a great burst of energy shattering all resistance, filling you with strength, love and will and making it more likely that your actions will be good.
One of the strongest and purest manifestations of energy in our bodies is love. In those moments when you can feel unrestrained love for absolutely everything, energy flows freely through your body, without resistance. But for the most part, love is hampered by many things, and as a result it turns to hatred. Limitation is a form of resistance, so when you limit your love, as you do when you love a country instead of humanity as a whole for instance, you corrupt a part of your love-energy and turn it into negative feelings toward the inhabitants of other countries.
When someone harms the ones you love, your fear of this happening again, the hurt you feel, creates resistance that turns into thoughts of revenge and feelings of hatred. When you see this happen to someone else, your fear that this will also happen to you creates the need to allieviate that fear. This often results in a need to harm someone, anyone, a scapegoat. The act of harming creates the illusion of safety, the illusion that you have taken steps to protect yourself.
Having experienced many negative things in your life leaves residual resistance that makes acting destructively an attractive option. Lack of sleep creates resistance, lack of food creates resistance, spiritual or physical immobility creates resistance, many, many things create resistance in our bodies. It helps to live in a way that limits resistance. Physical and mental exercise, eating healthy food and so on makes it easier to live a life free of resistance, in effect it makes it easier to live a life that is good and constructive both to ourselves and those around us.
However, resistance will allways build up, and often you will not even notice it. Often, you will explain your hatred away as proper behaviour. Often, you will think that you live a good life, doing all the things a proper person should be doing, and so you will not see your own pettyness and the small hatreds you nurture towards certain people or groups of people. No one, except maybe the Buddha, are absolutely free of resistance, allways remember.
What is needed, when things are dark, when you become aware of your own shortcomings, when you feel a pang of guilt at something you have done, when you doubt your own standing in the social environment. What is needed is that you reach in to the deep recesses of yourself, finding the light, the pure energy that emanates from that place, and from that place shoot out a great burst of energy shattering all resistance, filling you with strength, love and will and making it more likely that your actions will be good.
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