Entry 952 - Entry 959
Entry 952 - Dec 2nd, 2021
If you want to be a balanced individual, then you have to find the places of imbalance and then re-balance them. If you're always thinking, then you need to learn to find a balance between thinking and non-thinking. If you're always doing, then you need to find a balance between doing and being. If you're always talking or always listening, then you need to find a balance between the two.
Entry 953 - Dec 2nd, 2021
We are tied not only to the stories we believe in, but also to the stories we make. There is what is, that is before we had a thought about it. Then there is our interpretation of the "what is," the thought about it.
Some thoughts are collectively shared, others are individually shared. Some are born from our collective decision, others are members of our one-party worldview.
Entry 954 - Dec 2nd, 2021
If humanity in the early centuries were as technologically advanced as we are now, it would literally be a disaster. The rise of more intense ways to harness energy for lighting the world and also threatening nations with complete annihilation is not something to be taken lightly. If bloodthirsty, barbaric nations were already instigating hellish battles over land, just imagine how much more insane it would get with bombs, rockets, and even nukes centuries before us.
More energy requires more responsibility. That's why in the early centuries, so many of these esoteric schools were kept secret from the public and only allowed initiation after getting to know the individual. They knew that if they gave some of this powerful information away—which allowed them to access higher energy—the outcome could potentially be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands.
For example, the major production of nuclear energy is well known throughout the world. It requires an extreme amount of responsibility and discretion to use that energy in a creative and beneficial way rather than a destructive and harmful way. If nuclear power fell into the hands of an insane human with no care in the world that it could destroy a whole nation of people, it would prove disastrous.
Even if it is used in war, it can prove disastrous to both sides. Let's say one side uses it on the other, and then the other sees that it is only fair to use it back. Then we not only destroy one nation but a whole other nation. Over what? Because of our desire for their land? Their resources? Because of our anger, madness, or collective rage?
Entry 955 - Dec 2nd, 2021
We are ALL going to say stupid things, smart things, weird things, and horrendously boring things. No one is exempt from being dropped into experiences where they are the idiot and then in other experiences where they are the adept. The truly humble human will admit to the function and role of both idiot and adept, whether in short sequences of time or much larger sequences of time.
Regardless of the abstraction of experience, we play both fools and the wise, disguised as the Eternal One. We play both parts and all that is in between as the one that transcends all sequences of time and reality. We play all parts that seem to reflect varying times but are all somehow simultaneously played out in the present moment.
To our brain, simultaneous time is contradictory. The brain only desires to accept rationale within the limited framework of linear time. Beyond the brain, in the realm of awareness, we realize that the limits we place on rationale are the limits we collectively agreed on within society.
For example, in society, we tend to collectively push for a conventional beauty standard. We collectively push forward women and men we find attractive for whatever reason we all decide on, but if for any moment we chose to switch the standards, it would be collectively accepted as such.
Another example is that we label certain experiences as irrational when they don't benefit society in an orderly way. For example, to society, a schizophrenic person is seen as mentally ill and needs to be medicated so that they see what everyone else sees. But the ironic part is, at some level of intensity, we all view the world in ways that not everyone sees. Somehow, the schizophrenic person is the one who sees or hears what isn't there, but the woman who blames her husband for stealing her clothes and selling them online with no evidence in the real world is somehow not a schizophrenic.
Is this not something confined to her perception that is not shared by the world? Especially when the world collectively agrees he did not steal her clothes, but she alone still believes that? Then this begs the question: at what level of intensity does one seem to be plagued with a mental disorder to the point where they need to be diagnosed?
If anxiety is considered a mental health issue, then aren't we all mentally ill to some degree? Are there not days, weeks, or months where we fall into depressive or anxious episodes but eventually find the light at the end of the tunnel? I'm not saying medication isn't necessary, but rather asking: aren't we all victims at times to intense highs and lows?
Some people might turn to anti-anxiety meds to help during these times, while others might turn to street drugs like heroin. But is this not a common issue for humanity as a whole—trying to find ways to deal with our mental strain from life, whether chronic or temporary? Have we not all experienced times where we tried to self-medicate using sex, food, or drugs to deal with our current mental state? Again, I am for safe prescription drugs if one needs them, but I'm wondering if mental disorders are, at their core, an experience we will all have at one point in our lives.
Another question is: what makes someone an unacceptable member of society? Some would argue that bad morals in certain times can serve as good if they are life-saving. For example, if there is a murderer who walks into your home and demands that you tell him where a certain man is so he can kill him, but you lie to buy time for the police to come and protect this individual, now the once-believed sin of lying is the life-saving action in a dire circumstance.
Is the person who lied truly someone who sinned, or is what they did honorable? The action itself seems to hold certain moral weight when we decide it does. Once again, this varies not only from society to society, but from religion to religion, and even person to person.
If we make up society, then we choose what is irrational and what is rational. We choose what is moral and what is immoral. If most people and especially leaders in that given society are Christians, then that society is most likely going to accept Christian beliefs as rational. However, if that society is predominantly composed of atheists who neither accept nor reject the belief in God, then the minority of Christians will be considered irrational.
I would take it one step further to argue that society is often a reflection of our beliefs projected back to us. Not always, but when we experience backlash from society, it's often because that backlash still exists within us at some level.
For example, if we experience hate or fear for a small, harmless spider, that hate or fear we project onto the spider had to come from somewhere within us. If we hate a spider and then blame it on Joe, who neither hates nor loves spiders, that would make no sense and serve as a horrible argument for our hate. But if we acknowledge that we take responsibility for the emotions we feel in relation to what triggers them, then we can start working on finding out what caused that hate to proliferate and how we can dissolve it in a healthy manner—rather than projecting that hate onto other people or innocent spiders that are merely trying to survive.
Entry 956 - Dec 2nd, 2021
I obviously don't agree with everything Osho says, but that makes sense because I'm not Osho, so his truth for his life will not always resonate with my own life. Similarly, I encourage you to consider everyone's experience of life as a grain of salt in comparison to your own experience of life. Your symbols and words to describe your experience will often touch your heart deeply, where other people's symbolic choices of words are nice but may not vitalize your core.
If your two experiences converge where their symbols resonate with your experience, then that's awesome. Your two truths have melded through similar experiences. So the quote below is a representation of that same idea. His truth and experience of meditation, as described below, reflected beautifully what I felt with my own, and therefore it makes me happy that he has put into words what I had yet to find within myself to vocalize.
“A man of meditation comes to a point where there is no temptation left. Try to understand it. Temptation never comes from without; it is the repressed desire, repressed energy, repressed anger, repressed sex, repressed greed, that creates temptation. Temptation comes from within you, it has nothing to do with the without. It is not that a devil comes and tempts you, it is your own repressed mind that becomes devilish and wants to take revenge. To control that mind one has to remain so cold and frozen that no life energy is allowed to move into your limbs, into your body. If energy is allowed to move, those repressions will surface.” – Osho
Entry 957
When I see a rainbow, I don't think about a god murdering the whole world for them not living up to his expectations of righteousness—I see myself.
I see each color as a dimension to experience, but I also see each color as my inherent beingness. At the root of all experiences, all stories, all moments in time, and moments outside of time lies the hidden self manifested as the expressed self.
The rainbow, though limited by the gaze of our perception, also transcends our limited perception. When one finds out the rainbow is nonetheless light playing with form, then one remembers a little more of how this body is us playing with experience.
Entry 958
If you only knew a fraction of the depths of the limitlessness of your own being, then you would stop relying on people to explain your experiences with their religions. You'd stop relying on religions to define your morality. You'd stop relying on society to tell you what is normal and not normal behavior.
You'd clap joyously when the airplane landed. You'd let the milk come out of your nose when the woman to your right on the train made you glow with laughter. You would tell a random joke to ease the mind before the day of finals. You'd find a million and one ways to be nice and love those who genuinely needed it.
You'd remain boundless through boundless love when everyone around you tried their hardest to convince you to wall up your being with boundaries to protect yourself from the weaker force of fear. You'll see yourself as truly immortal rather than vulnerable to the material works.
You'll sing when people are moping and dance when people are seething with hatred. You'll find ways to bless people's social media feeds instead of spreading paranoia through unwarranted beliefs about everything from pharma to the family down the street.
You'll spread the infinity of your being by simply living your truth. Those who are tired of their limits—tired of the limits from society, tired of their limits from religion—will get to take a break as they rest with you. As you share some wholesome moments beside them, they will wish to no longer be fragmented.
You will serve as a reminder that they were never just the crest of a temporary wave, but rather the wholeness of the waters it sprang from. You will serve as a reminder to a forgotten memory that somehow love does prevail, even in broken beliefs held within our subjective reality.
Entry 959
I find it hilariously ironic when religious people negatively judge and condemn those who are addicted to worldly things such as drugs and rock and roll when they themselves are just as addicted to their religion and what lies therein. They stare with contempt at their neighbor for having tattoos all over their body, but then they themselves are addicted to the rush they get from being seen as a holy person of God by the church.
They condemn people for making money as well-established musicians while they themselves are addicted to their status as a church musician. They condemn people who speak to hundreds of thousands on how to better oneself but they themselves are addicted to climbing to the top of the religious ladder to be seen by as many as possible.
They are addicted to the numbers of how many attend their church. They are addicted to preaching the gospel and converting people to their religion. They are addicted to the afterlife belief of heaven and hell. Instead of questioning how a loving God could truly throw people in hell eternally for finite mistakes, they find a creepy and unsolicited satisfaction in the idea that eternal hell exists.
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