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🐟 02. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF “LIFE”:

Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible – that is, any gross or subtle object within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the senses, plus the subject (the observer of all phenomena) – is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “GOD”, since they usually conceive of the Primaeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Supreme Divine Person.

However, according to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, the Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera).

Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (that being conscious awareness).

Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness.

APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though mostly indirect) result of it.

Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Obviously, individual consciousness is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals.

“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (‘all this is indeed Brahman’) – there is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace – and you are that!
This is more succinctly expressed as the mathematical equation:
E=A͚͚ (Everything is Infinite Awareness).

HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism comprised of the eight rudimentary elements – pseudo-ego, intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat, and ether (three-dimensional space).

Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma”. Everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that – an unverified belief.

Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors – our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by each and every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.

As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating temporal pleasures and pains.
Suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal doership – the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous beings, with complete volition to do, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests.

There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future

These types of suffering are the result of improperly understanding what was explained above – that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above.

The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to discern between suffering and pain, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one’s core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This ‘resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness’ can be practiced on a daily (or even hourly) basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one’s life.

Every person, from time immemorial, has been either deliberately or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of yoga (religion), or else in creating wealth, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.

Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquility of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i. e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating).

So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to be liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?

WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine).

Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life – all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.

Furthermore, if it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the very few fully-enlightened spiritual masters presently on earth, and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms. Most beneficially, go VEGAN! 🌱

Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS!


“You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment because, you see, it starts now.
It didn’t begin in the past. There IS no past.”
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“A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'.
In other words, we are not separate.”
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"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way".
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“The meaning of life is life itself.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
(06/01/1915 – 16/11/1973).


“What you seek is seeking you.”
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“Don’t you know yet?
It is your light that lights the worlds.”
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“Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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“We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
(30/09/1207 – 17/12/1273).