‘Become Nothing’
He didn’t use those exact words but that was the meaning of what he wrote. The words were suddenly there in the moment in my consciousness… and I knew they were right.
I had been reading a piece by Krishamurti – that fearless enemy of dogma, and proponent of the individual’s right to find their own spiritual path.
It does involve a certain amount of bravery – to contend with that feeling of ‘going against’ those of wisdom, those from whom we can learn, perhaps those of a tradition in which we were raised or trained. But that wasn’t Krishnamurti’s point; he didn’t deny anyone their well-found wisdom, rather, he urged each one of us to find our own… not second hand knowledge. And to do that, the only way is to go out there and play with the universe, but play with a spirit of intent. And this is where it gets a little complex… until you see the whole of what he was saying… whereupon it gets very simple.
When you play with the universe, you do so in a way that stares in wonder at what you see. There’s a grown thing, covered in rust and tar and road rage; and it’s stuck onto our eyes, forming a film. This gritty, dirty, bitten lens imbues everything we try to see with its sticky waste. Staring in wonder at what you see is the cleaner that wipes the dirty grown thing from our eyes. For most, it happens in little stages, but there are some who ‘take the kingdom of heaven by storm’. They have a moment – a surging, brilliant moment that melts and washes what is keeping them from looking at the world, a universe that is alive and waiting to respond, personally, to their presence, their conversation, their love…
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we are made to rise Spiritually, amen, the problem is we encounter traffic problems and obstacles, wise post
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Thank you. The problems we encounter are there to strengthen and focus us. When we are a more fitting vessel we will be capable of holding more of the Spiritual.
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Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could . . .
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We can play with words, but Being is bigger than logic or mathematics
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‘To be or not to be’ is not much of a question. You have to be to ask it. The answer is to be the best we can be.
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You may be missing the point of the post, the essence of which is the spiritual avoidance of ‘becoming’. You could read it again with this in mind?
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I still miss any reason for the spirit to avoid ‘becoming’. unless you equate that word with something other than achievement? I cannot see that playing with the universe arises out of avoidance of any sort of effort?
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It’s not avoidance of effort. It’s effort directed from a different place.
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Ah, right.
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The spirit does not need to ‘become’ through dissatisfaction. It is the very essence of universe-directed change
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