If you do not find it from yourself, where will you go and find it?
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Story of the Monkey
I will tell you the story of a monkey who was shut inside a small room in a castle tower. Nothing was happening in the room, and the monkey was restless.
The monkey could only divert himself by going to the window and looking out at the world. this distracted him for a while, but then he started to think about his situation. How did he end up in this tower? Why had he been captured and put there? The monkey's mood began to darken. There was nothing to do, no one to talk to. His thoughts made him more and more depressed. The room seemed to close in; the monkey started to sweat anxiously. No, he suddenly realise, i'm not in a room, im in HELL. Quickly his depression grew into anguish and anguish into torment. The monkey saw demons all around inflicting every imaginable pain.
The monkey saw no way out. But gradually the monkey got used to his torment. How much time had elapsed? The monkey couldnt remember. But he began to feel better about his surroundings. It wasnt such a bad room, not really. In fact, it was rather pleasant to be by oneself looking out the window at all the fascinating things going on outside
Bit by bit the demons stopped torturing the monkey and withdrew. He began to feel better, and soon the day came when he was feeling optimistic. The monkey grew more cheerful and then he starts to feel bettter and better, until he imagines himself in Paradise, and instead of being punished by demons he is being soothe by angels. Ah. the monkey thinks, I am in ETERNAL BLISS.
And so it never ends.
The monkey could only divert himself by going to the window and looking out at the world. this distracted him for a while, but then he started to think about his situation. How did he end up in this tower? Why had he been captured and put there? The monkey's mood began to darken. There was nothing to do, no one to talk to. His thoughts made him more and more depressed. The room seemed to close in; the monkey started to sweat anxiously. No, he suddenly realise, i'm not in a room, im in HELL. Quickly his depression grew into anguish and anguish into torment. The monkey saw demons all around inflicting every imaginable pain.
The monkey saw no way out. But gradually the monkey got used to his torment. How much time had elapsed? The monkey couldnt remember. But he began to feel better about his surroundings. It wasnt such a bad room, not really. In fact, it was rather pleasant to be by oneself looking out the window at all the fascinating things going on outside
Bit by bit the demons stopped torturing the monkey and withdrew. He began to feel better, and soon the day came when he was feeling optimistic. The monkey grew more cheerful and then he starts to feel bettter and better, until he imagines himself in Paradise, and instead of being punished by demons he is being soothe by angels. Ah. the monkey thinks, I am in ETERNAL BLISS.
And so it never ends.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Luke 17:20-21
.." The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
2 Corinthians 12: 1-9
--- and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter... a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations... "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness"...
It is most possible that the bible have untold chapters. And these chapters are missing pieces that would help some of us understand life in a more coherent manner. We are missing out on the very crucial spiritual component that has been ommitted. But Why? It is simply because there is no need for people to know that aspect to function in this present age. Only the few of us who are inquisitive enough to seek it out will find it regardless. And that has always been the joke on us.
The Aztecs, The Indians, and The Eqyptians faded away with the answer to life. The wealth of knowledge they had would take us quite a while more to discover for ourselves in our own terms in this Age. If you untangle the different interpretations they are all I belive describing the same thing; just like how Chi, Energy, Aura, Electrons are all descriptions of something similar but called and draw out different ideas to different people. Our current Age (or civilization) seeks to explain life away through 'Science'. But, the biggest question is whoever made that a rule of understanding life? I question the foundations of this belief, that science is "logical and factual". It is only "logical" and "factual" because we defined it ex ante. just like how we defined 1 as being 1 and adding 1 + 1 = 2 simply because we have defined them previously as such. Thus science has barricaded itself against all other philosophies of life based on this truthless axiom.
Life is not and never will be unravelled in this manner. It is impossible to describe vividly how a ball of yarn is supposed to look by writing line after line of descriptions about it. It would just has to be 'described' by looking at a ball of yarn. And that should be the answer to everything.
To know the way, there is only you stopping yourself. Eternal life? Knowing the truth will lead to eternity. But not in the human sense of immortality. It is knowing full well that you are part of the make up of the whole universe, and, knowing that fact, being at ease with the world, that you are as much a part of the trees and the people around you as they are a part of you. And when your temporal existence is over, you know now that it is not the end, for you are just part of the cycle that has been set on a course that doesnt cease.
We are all more than capable thus to achieve what we want to. It is entirely up to us how to employ our energies and focus on the things around us to create magnificence. (On the other hand, it is also dependent on your relationship with the Creator who would empower you to do so) One can choose to engage in this life and get caught in the woes like a blue-white collar worker. One can choose to be out of it and live in the spiritual realm like the monks do. Or one could always be coexist in both but few would ever be able to succeed. But maybe Jesus did.
So what is the use of knowing? No use at all if this knowledge is not gainfully employed.
If u look at all of the bible, there is not one single truth in it that i could not have thought about myself. I could have, through my own reflection and meditation, come up with the same rules that govern life in this very age (again, paradoxically, by the creator's grace). It is not difficult to. The answer has always been found within, but we needed someone remarkable to lay a foundation of rules as he has a intimate relation with the Creator that we could follow and giving us an idea of how to behave.
And I believe trance and house music is an evolution of music. People may well believe that music has devolved since the Renaissance, but this is not so. New age composers know what life is like in eden better than 15th century humans who are busy composing songs to stay alive and missing the whole point altogether worrying about getting dysentry or TB. Sure, they are good, but they miss the point completely because the woe of life eats them up from the truth. These new age composers on the other hand knew what they wanted to express. Trance is the evolution of music. Beats were drawn from tribal beats that helped people cross over to the spiritual realm ages ago. Now it has become pop music for all of us which is absolutely amazing. It is so obvious but like what da vinci said we have eyes but not all of us can see.
The Aztecs, The Indians, and The Eqyptians faded away with the answer to life. The wealth of knowledge they had would take us quite a while more to discover for ourselves in our own terms in this Age. If you untangle the different interpretations they are all I belive describing the same thing; just like how Chi, Energy, Aura, Electrons are all descriptions of something similar but called and draw out different ideas to different people. Our current Age (or civilization) seeks to explain life away through 'Science'. But, the biggest question is whoever made that a rule of understanding life? I question the foundations of this belief, that science is "logical and factual". It is only "logical" and "factual" because we defined it ex ante. just like how we defined 1 as being 1 and adding 1 + 1 = 2 simply because we have defined them previously as such. Thus science has barricaded itself against all other philosophies of life based on this truthless axiom.
Life is not and never will be unravelled in this manner. It is impossible to describe vividly how a ball of yarn is supposed to look by writing line after line of descriptions about it. It would just has to be 'described' by looking at a ball of yarn. And that should be the answer to everything.
To know the way, there is only you stopping yourself. Eternal life? Knowing the truth will lead to eternity. But not in the human sense of immortality. It is knowing full well that you are part of the make up of the whole universe, and, knowing that fact, being at ease with the world, that you are as much a part of the trees and the people around you as they are a part of you. And when your temporal existence is over, you know now that it is not the end, for you are just part of the cycle that has been set on a course that doesnt cease.
We are all more than capable thus to achieve what we want to. It is entirely up to us how to employ our energies and focus on the things around us to create magnificence. (On the other hand, it is also dependent on your relationship with the Creator who would empower you to do so) One can choose to engage in this life and get caught in the woes like a blue-white collar worker. One can choose to be out of it and live in the spiritual realm like the monks do. Or one could always be coexist in both but few would ever be able to succeed. But maybe Jesus did.
So what is the use of knowing? No use at all if this knowledge is not gainfully employed.
If u look at all of the bible, there is not one single truth in it that i could not have thought about myself. I could have, through my own reflection and meditation, come up with the same rules that govern life in this very age (again, paradoxically, by the creator's grace). It is not difficult to. The answer has always been found within, but we needed someone remarkable to lay a foundation of rules as he has a intimate relation with the Creator that we could follow and giving us an idea of how to behave.
And I believe trance and house music is an evolution of music. People may well believe that music has devolved since the Renaissance, but this is not so. New age composers know what life is like in eden better than 15th century humans who are busy composing songs to stay alive and missing the whole point altogether worrying about getting dysentry or TB. Sure, they are good, but they miss the point completely because the woe of life eats them up from the truth. These new age composers on the other hand knew what they wanted to express. Trance is the evolution of music. Beats were drawn from tribal beats that helped people cross over to the spiritual realm ages ago. Now it has become pop music for all of us which is absolutely amazing. It is so obvious but like what da vinci said we have eyes but not all of us can see.
Monday, April 20, 2009
A trip to the Quad
It takes about 3 hours to get there.
And when you are there you think you are not but you actually are.
The sounds emanate from the surroundings help you connect with your fellow mates who went with you.
There was a guide that knew his way around, grooving to the beat, being at one with the vibrations. His fingers and body trembled and contorted in sync with the music as he smiled contentedly at us, leaving us to discover the way.
some of us were lost and trapped in our own frustrations, some of us were at ease, some of us were interested in shapes while i was interested in life itself.
And I saw the frame that i was in. And i saw the beauty of the woods. Every cherry blossom petal that fell, every bee that hovered and looked upon me i could see them clearly. It was not looking for trouble, it was observing, and then it left a trail when it flew off.
I saw how the world pulsated in the garden, how each wind and vibrations set the petals moving, how the bees too moved in the pattern of the wind. Everytime a gust came the world moved in unison to it.
And everyone else who were in the park ebbed and flowed in synchronisation and I realised that all along i had been an observer, out of place, and out of touch with everything and everyone that i knew.
And when you are there you think you are not but you actually are.
The sounds emanate from the surroundings help you connect with your fellow mates who went with you.
There was a guide that knew his way around, grooving to the beat, being at one with the vibrations. His fingers and body trembled and contorted in sync with the music as he smiled contentedly at us, leaving us to discover the way.
some of us were lost and trapped in our own frustrations, some of us were at ease, some of us were interested in shapes while i was interested in life itself.
And I saw the frame that i was in. And i saw the beauty of the woods. Every cherry blossom petal that fell, every bee that hovered and looked upon me i could see them clearly. It was not looking for trouble, it was observing, and then it left a trail when it flew off.
I saw how the world pulsated in the garden, how each wind and vibrations set the petals moving, how the bees too moved in the pattern of the wind. Everytime a gust came the world moved in unison to it.
And everyone else who were in the park ebbed and flowed in synchronisation and I realised that all along i had been an observer, out of place, and out of touch with everything and everyone that i knew.
