In this wonderful
time, this fabulous place, finite as it is, we can come to know our reason for
being here. Our world where I am writing this and, if I am lucky, where someone
of you is reading this we are existing consciousness, a soul if you will,
limited in its entire propensity in order to perform purposefully.
Life is like a reality
show on TV. We are put down on this island, given this conflicting task to
perform in a setting and with others. In this world there is much to impede us
in our task, many things making the task hard to do and other factors that
facilitate getting the task done. This is all in a situation with other people
associated with you and your task there to help and to hinder.
Look at life as a
reality show; it helps to understand the character of it and the impermanent
nature of it. What I mean by its impermanent nature is this:
We are born. We
live in a place over the passage of time, and then bang, it’s over. We are
conscious of events while we live. We were not retrospectively conscious when
we were born and who know what happens when we die?
We know nothing other than
the absolute finality of death? Life stops, there is no forwarding address.
When we are born,
wham, all of a sudden we are here! We cannot communicate, we cannot care for
ourselves, we pop out of a body which has nurtured our life to its point of entry
sending us out into this expanse naked, hungry, dependent and oh so interested
in everything about us.
As we grow we discover
our talent to make contact with what we see in this world. We see, we touch, we
feel, we hear, we smell, we add our own affects so others about us can hear,
feel, smell, see us. It is all interface. We give we get.
Soon these talents
teach us how to work with all of this extraneous material. We make noise we get
response. We formulate that noise turning it into words through which the
response becomes the give and take of communication. We start to receive
information created by another. This is more than the information we take in by
sensing it.
It is at this time we
learn, already using this wonderful mind that is ours and start expanding the
function of it. Its first function is inputting all the datum we evoke, than
categorizing it, analyzing it, storing it, and linking it to all information
heretofore stored by us and all that is encountered by us after this.
This process of
assemblage continues to the point that we see and know beyond the individual
pieces of datum, or its categories, or how one piece of datum relates to
another. We start looking at it as data, looking at it as a singular whole.
When able to see it as
data and then doing the same cognitive processing of it as data, and not but
datum, this begins our thinking.
It is in the process
of thinking we then start seeking the meaning of what we know from what we have
thought about all of the information we have acquired. This is when the right
brain function kicks in and we see the shooting stars.
In all of this process
we see in the way we have learned to see starting out as infants just having
popped out of the womb. As we start exercising our talents in each step of the
way we evoke this wonderful place going through this wonderful corridor of time.
In it we aggregate all we have encountered into our life process.
In the end it becomes
what we think about it. There is however an intriguing twist to all of
it. What we see in our mortal way is not all there is to see. It is only what
we have learned to see by how we have learned to see. There is more, so much
more that we cannot see.
As the saying goes,
“There is more than the eye can see!”
Our process of
learning has been a two edge sword. It cuts one way but cuts the other too. As
we learn some things we close off learning other things. We become bound by the
way we have learned to do it and can’t break out of the barriers that creates.
As a result we are denied the knowledge, the information, and the sight of what
is obviously there.
This is the reason we
spend so much time in the early years and more effort in the middle years
learning and holding on to what we acquire by our learning. We work so well at
the task that any foreknowledge we might have had or peripheral knowledge
observed is absolutely forgotten. What we know becomes all there is in our way
of believing that is what is, namely our reality. It is what we think it is. It
is not what it really is. There is simply more to it than that.
It take life, it takes
the frustration caused by the emptiness of each material end that has been ours
that brings us to look for something more. It is at this time we start trying
and hopefully become able to see beyond ourselves. Up until now we have been
blinded by the wonders of the materiality in which we have functioned.
This seems to be the
design of life. To come into it we are blind. To start in it we are blinded by
what we see. We then are blinded further by trying to see more of it. At some
point we see that which is blinding us is but its sparkle. Behind the sparkle
it is all transparent. What blinded us has been a vast illusion preventing our
see beyond the sparkle. When we do finally see beyond forced through the
illusion we see what we were designed to see.
It is a process, a
process through which we are enlightened. Our enlightenment comes when we look
beyond our material consequence and try to see what might be more. Doing this
we are looking through the shade of sparkle which is transparent. It is at this
time, in this way, that we transcend our material consequence. The design of
our lives is intended to get us to this point and to work on it, even before we
leave our material consequence.
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