FriskyPhil

Teeny tiny minuscule infinitesimal quick fast blink-blue uproariously belly laugh enjoyable what pleases us is the difference between what we think we know and what we really know about anything thank you. Thank you for winking at me when I was so serious about all what is spiritual and the next time I ask for us to become aware of the presence of God and for us to do the will of God, perhaps you could please me with more fun than even tinier. I am sure that blink wink tinier would go unnoticed and we would completely miss the point all together if we wrote one more book about less than we think we know or what we really know all about nothing.

What is nothing is a laugh and a half and fills the pages of books and the so called brightest among us with everything bigger than the tiniest speck of dust on the smallest bit of yes, no, maybe of the simple majesty of everything in the whole universe exponential. We do not know shit about what is really going on and the less we think we know and the less we know the better, if we really want to after glow in the waky waky of a good belly laugh in the presence of the sense of eternal humor. What any one of us would do with any more than a wink waky waky of blue is more than any one of us could stand in the waky wake of something so grand and holy cow tipping.

We are the silliest bunch of Holies that we can ever imagine to be so serious about whole pastures of doo-be-doos, thank God it is Fridays, and …phews! Anything and everything and all the nothing of nothings that we may ever notice that grabs our attention is an eddy or cache in the middle of a good long yawn, pastures and lawn, in our shared mind of Sleepy Hollow, and surprise doo-be-doos. Within the very delivery of this, my experience of glimpse, wink, blink, and eternal humor, is a pleasant rhythm hidden in this prose, and as far as I know may even be similar to God winking at me so blue, and may be all what just pleases us in the middle of all or nothing verbatim.

God is not teasing us by winking at me when the very moment that we are already to laugh is upon us, for He is just meeting all of us right where we are at when we are ready to make love like we are supposed ta. We are the light of love and our mind becomes a fountain of delight when we forget everything we have learned and love, love, love from a new mind filled to the top with only the idea of the good. We can not parent this idea the way we were parented lest we end up in the pasture with dirty feet, so we just keep forgiving everything that would steal into our Holy mind and tip us right over by surprise. We wanna play, laugh and a half, and lighten up so death itself is not what surprises us into the last moment of the first time we think of the wink of forgiveness. If God can seem so teeny tiny in just a wink, then we all have a chance to think what we really are can fit into a speck of something so sweet as a simple waky waky.

~Jeffrey Ellen Pinetree

T-14.in. 8 Let us now follow the simple logic by which the Holy Spirit teaches the simple conclusions that speak for truth, and only truth.

T-14.II.2 The Holy Spirit begins His lesson in simplicity with the fundamental teaching that truth is true. This is the hardest lesson you will ever learn, and in the end the only one.

T-14.II.3 The Holy Spirit says, with steadfast quietness, The truth is true. Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there.

W-pI.152.3 Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true.

“Truth is true” and “nothing else is true” are clear and certain major and minor premises of a syllogism that leads with absolute certainty to the most important conclusion there is:

Major Premise: Truth is true,

Minor Premise: Nothing else is true,

Conclusion: Therefore, Truth is all there is.

Notice that you can be absolutely certain that Truth is all there is. The ability to abolish illusions is in direct proportion to that certainty.

If the reasoning is now expanded to reveal the attributes of Truth, clarity and certainty can be maintained if the conclusion of each syllogism is used as the major premise of the next syllogism. In each syllogism, the minor premise expands the meaning of each attribute, in the following manner:

Truth is All,
All is entire,
Therefore Truth is entire

Truth is entire,
Entire is total,
Therefore Truth is total

Truth is total,
Total is complete,
Therefore Truth is complete

Truth is complete,
Complete is whole,
Therefore Truth is whole

Truth is whole,
Whole is one,
Therefore Truth is one

Truth is one,
Oneness is harmony,
Therefore Truth is harmony

Truth is harmony,
Harmony is perfection,
Therefore Truth is perfection

Truth is perfection,
Perfection is absoluteness,
Therefore Truth is absolute

Truth is absolute,
Absolute is infinite,
Therefore Truth is infinite

So therefore Truth is all, entire, total, complete, whole, one, harmony, perfection, absolute and infinite.

Now, since Truth is all there is, you can’t be outside of Truth, but neither can your illusions about yourself be included in Truth. So we must include only the Truth about you. Everything else you believe about yourself may be illusory, but you can be absolutely certain that you exist as awareness.

So awareness must exist

And since Truth is all there is,

awareness must therefore be Truth.

So Truth is all, entire, total, complete, whole, one, harmonious, perfect, absolute, infinite Awareness.

Anything other than that would be not Truth or not so and not exist. So that’s all there is besides which there can’t be anything else. And hence that’s also all that God can possibly be.

~Ben Gilberti

What happens if we’re not certain that God is all there is? Well, then we think that it’s possible that there might be stuff other than God, contrary to God. So what happens then? All manner of illusions appear: Oneness splinters into separation, good mutates into evil, entirety degrades into fragmentation, totality collapses into lack, completeness turns into disintegration, wholeness declines into disease, love twists into hate, harmony flips into disharmony, joy alternates with sadness, perfection gives way to endless flaws, purity becomes debauchery, grace is obscured by cynicism, innocence is bludgeoned by guilt, absoluteness becomes partial and relative, peace is swallowed up by war, infinity lapses into limitation, abundance declines into poverty, omnipresence becomes local and small, omniscience shrivels into ignorance, awareness becomes unconscious, omnipotence deflates into impotence, omniaction declines into lethargy and eternality turns into mortality — and all because we’re not really sure that God is all there is.

If we were absolutely certain that God is All there is, there would never be an accident, war, earthquake, tornado, vio­lence, heart trouble, tumor, cancer, palsy, epilepsy, colds, sickness, disease hatred, fear, criticism, resentment, rebellion, worry, sin, erroneous belief, dream, ego, mortal mind, or illusion. There would just be God.

T-14.II.8. 3 The vision of Christ is given the very instant that it is perceived. 4 Where everything is clear, it is all holy. 5 The quietness of its simplicity is so compelling that you will realize it is impossible to deny the simple truth. 6 For there is nothing else. 7 God is everywhere, and His Son is in Him with everything.

Guess what. There is no way that we cannot be certain that God is all there is. Because God is all there is anyway no matter what. And if God is all there is, then he’s the only mind there is and how can he be uncertain that he is all. Notice your ego squirm.

We’re already in Heaven. Nothing contaminates heaven but belief in error, nothing makes possible belief in error but ignorance, nothing dissolves ignorance but understanding, nothing evokes understanding but clarity, and nothing provides clarity but the illumination shining in the self-evidence of Truth.

We trained ourselves not to recognize Truth so that we could believe the tiny mad idea that we separated from God. The illusion of being separate from God necessarily made us contrary to God, thereby giving us an experience that was contrary to God’s nature, the erroneous nature of which we couldn’t recognize because we had trained ourselves not to recognize Truth. So we thought our experience contrary to God’s nature was Truth, and believed it. Belief begat experience begat belief begat experience etc., etc

But here now is where we need to perceive something with the Vision of Christ; something as earth-shattering as it is simple.

There was never a tiny mad idea, never even an illusion of being separate from God. To say that the separation never happened but to believe that an illusion of separation occurred because of an erroneous belief in separation ushers in all the devastation of an actual separation, not in actuality, but in the form of a vivid illusion of pure hell. But the vision of Christ sees as God sees and God sees the simple truth that God could never have an erroneous belief that He could separate from Himself thereby making the devastating illusion of that illusory separation. And being impossible for God is was impossible for us because we are absolutely One with God. The very instant that this is perceived, The vision of Christ is given, the vision that sees that only God could ever be and never, never, never anything else whatsoever; and thus the axe is thrust into the very root of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, and the entire illusion of devastation vanishes into the nothingness it always was just as the nothingness of darkness vanishes when light appears.

The earth was never flat – it never happened. Train tracks have never converged in the distance – it’s never happened. The sky has never touched the horizon – it’s never happened. The magician never sawed the lady in half – it’s never happened. Matter has never existed – it’s never happened. Nothing has ever been separate from God – it’s never happened.

All the suffering, pain, sickness, fear, attack, catastrophe, devastation, attack, war and death that you think has happened and is still possible, has never happened and is impossible, because all of that is not Truth, and not Truth is nothing, and nothing simply can’t happen.

But we’re so convinced that we’ve experienced what never happened that we’re absolutely committed to believing in it and experiencing it again even though it’s pure hell. It’s like being absolutely committed to believing the magician sawed the lady in half because we saw it with our own eyes.

The separation never happened because it can’t happen. Because God is perfect infinite Mind it’s impossible for that mind to ever have even a tiny mad idea or illusion of separation. And every single one of us was then and are now the same perfect, infinite Mind that God is, so the mad idea couldn’t have occurred to any of us either. There is no origin to error because there can’t be an origin of nothing.

T-3.IV.6 Light abolishes darkness merely by showing you it is not there. Darkness never happens because it’s nothing and if nothing happens then nothing has happened. Truth will always overcome error in this way.

T-3.II.3. 5 If nothing but the truth exists, right-minded seeing cannot see anything but perfection. And if nothing but the Truth exists, there can’t be anything but right-minded seeing.

So the earth-shattering thing I’m asking you to realize and accept is that you have never, ever experienced even so much as an illusion of anything other than God, because you’ve always be absolutely one with God and God has always been absolutely all there is. And the vaporization of your memory of it in face of your perception of God’s Allness with the vision of Christ transcends time and annihilates the past that gave rise to the memory. Because God transcends time, no illusion ever happened in the Mind of God, including the illusion of time itself. Another way to look at this is that Infinite Beingness’ infinity utterly crowds out any possibility of illusion and we’re perplexed only because infinite beingness is incomprehensible to all save itself.
But we are infinite beingness. The solution to this dilemma is, again, the vision of Christ. The dilemma is due to our having faith in nothing. The resolution of the dilemma is to give that up and replace it with the vision of Christ.

T-14.II.8. 3 The vision of Christ is given the very instant that it is perceived. 4 Where everything is clear, it is all holy. 5 The quietness of its simplicity is so compelling that you will realize it is impossible to deny the simple truth. 6 For there is nothing else. 7 God is everywhere, and His Son is in Him with everything.

You surrender your faith in nothing for your perception of Truth.
Yet our faith in nothing is so strong that we still can’t believe that our illusions never even happened. Be patient and gentle with yourself about this. I said this is earth shattering. It will shatter the earth. When this becomes clear to you, when this is perceived, in that very instant you will be given the vision of Christ, you will be awake, you will be and see the Presence of God.

What is the simple Truth? That Truth is all there is. And there is no illusion in Truth. And so there never was any illusions. To think that’s not true is to believe that something not true is true.

But ask yourself these questions: What impresses you more, the Allness of God, or a contrary illusion of devastation. Both are not possible. If the price of entering Heaven was your admission that your experience of anything else never happened, would your conviction that you did have such an experience keep you out of Heaven? Doesn’t it make more sense to possibly have been mistaken about having experienced illusions, than to be convinced that you experienced them?

T-14.II.3. 2 To those unhappy learners who would teach themselves nothing, and delude themselves into believing that it is not nothing, the Holy Spirit says, with steadfast quietness: 3 The truth is true. 4 Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there.

You must utterly immerse yourself in the Truth until the Truth has it’s way with you. Don’t just think the Truth, feel it as well. Feel what it feels like for Truth, God, Love and Perfection to be all there is. Surrendering to Truth is actually surrendering to God because God is Truth. Surrendering to God means surrendering everything you believe that’s contrary to Truth, to be consumed by the certain Allness of Truth, the certain Allness of God.

It takes less than a minute to review how clear and simple all this really is. Truth is True, Nothing else is True, and just isn’t there. So Truth is all there is. And that’s God. Nothing can be more certain than the fact that it’s totally impossible for there to ever be anything separate from God; not you, not anyone, not anything, not now, not ever, not here, not anywhere.

This now is how to make Truth a thing of life, not of words, and in doing this the Holy Spirit joins you and insures your success.

Take your radical stand for the perfection of God, seeing everything and everybody as His presence and His presence alone. Your purpose is to Be the Presence of God everywhere, and See the Presence of God everywhere. Why do anything else?

Much Love,

Ben Gilberti

What seems to be
And What Is…
Never the two shall meet
Except beyond that blemish
Of confusion where all doubt
Rises up to meet the eye
Of a beholder absent
From the very Mind
In which it’s True Identity lies…

The Occasion of the Moment
Cannot be appreciated
In the course and dense partiality
Of a subject disassociated
From it’s own Reason…
A snapshot of something
Is not the thing itself
And ‘form’ can only reflect
The Reality whose Majesty
Unspeakable and beyond
The fumbling symbols and utterances
By which we grope in the darkness
Of thoughtlessness personified

There is Order and Integrity
And His Thought remains forever True
Forever and Always Whole
Extending the Unaltered and Unalterable
In Joy and Celebration Unlimited
Humble in It’s Perfection
And Divine Function

The burden of my apparent time and place
Has more than been met
For His Love Is upon me
Actually within me
Born within the cells and molecules
I falsely and briefly called ‘home’
In which I hid in trembling fascination

I Am Redeemed… Delivered…
Returned, safe and sound
From a motion made
Only in the dreaming…
Answered swiftly and surely
In The Beforeness of His Loving and Total Care

~Jeffrey Mironov

You can dream of problems and of separation…
But in your waking, in your truth,
You have absolute dominion over your entire existence.
For you are the Son of God.
Even in your imaginings,
You have dominion over those selfsame imaginings.
So even in your illusions,
There is nothing that can seem to happen to you
Which you have not, in your dream,
Chosen and imagined of yourself.

There is never a time, in truth or illusion,
When you have a problem.
There is never a time, in truth or illusion,
When what is you can be different from you.
Truly, it cannot be.

So I urge you to daydream as often as you can
About freedom and dominion.
Even within your illusions,
Daydream that everything that happens to you
Is, in fact, yourself,
Is, in fact, your choice.
Nothing can happen to you except that you choose it,
Request it, and create it.

Daydream about that,
Even the things that you call problems.
Daydream that they are your own choice.
Even if it seems strange that you would choose them,
Realize that, indeed, they ARE your choice.

Then what may happen for you
Will be that which you might call a double negative.
For already this world you live in,
Which you think is reality,
Is a dream.
And if you can dream within that dream,
Your dreaming within your dream
May guide you back to reality.
If you can dream within your dream

Of what your reality actually is,
Then you may open the door through which
You can move back to that reality.

This is part of what we are trying to do in this Course

When we say it is a Course in mind training.

We are teaching you to use your thoughts,

WITHIN this world of thoughts,
To revert back to the world of reality
Where, indeed, there are no thoughts.
Because thoughts are always of separation,

And do not mean anything.

To clarify for a moment,
We said early on in the lessons
That your thoughts do not mean anything. (L. 10)

The reason that they do not have meaning

Relates to our theme for today.
Your own thoughts are your own interpretations,

Based on your own concepts about what you are.

That, in its essence, defines separation.
So your thoughts, your own thoughts,
Must be a product of your belief that you are separate.

The thoughts that form your self-concept,

And thereby allow you to believe you ARE separate—

Those thoughts are all part of the same problem.

That is why we say you need to go
Beyond your thoughts to your experience.
You need to go beyond the notion that you are a separate being

To the EXPERIENCE of oneness.

In moving beyond those thoughts and concepts,

You will realize the problem has been solved,

That all of it was but a dream
Which shall pass away in a moment,
Your moment of awakening.

Truly, I tell you,
It is as possible for you to wake up this moment
And be totally free
As it is for anyone whom you imagine to be asleep in this world
In wake up and pop out of his dream
Into what you call his consciousness.

You can free yourself from this dream of illusions

Just as quickly, and with just as much certainty.

Hear me well.

~Brent Haskell, Journey Beyond Words, p.96-98

“Be aware of your breathing. Notice the sensation of the breath. Feel the air moving in and out of your body. Notice how the chest and abdomen expand and contract slightly with the in and out breath. One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another.

“One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many times a day, is an excellent way of bringing space into your life.

“Even if you meditated on your breathing for two hours or more, which some people do, one breath is all you ever need to be aware of, indeed ever can be aware of. The rest is memory or anticipation, which is to say, thought.

“Breathing isn’t really something that you do but something that you witness as it happens. Breathing happens by itself. The intelligence within the body is doing it. All you have to do is watch it happening. There is no strain or effort involved. Also, notice the brief cessation of the breath, particularly the still point at the end of the out-breath, before you start breathing in again.”

Eckhart Tolle,
A New Earth - Chapter 8,
The Discovery of Inner Space (p.245)

by Helen Schucman
from The Gifts of God

There is no death. But there is quietness
beyond the reaches of the world; a peace
which only life can give. It is the life
that is the gift of God. All conflicts cease
within this life. It beats in harmony
with all creation, beyond any sound
the world can hear. It sings a different song,
and where it reaches, there is holy ground

There is no death. Whom God created whole
is whole forever. Who can crucify
eternal life? And who can bring to dust
whom God has willed immortal? Can he die
who rises past the universe, to rest
at one with his Creator? So are we
ensured to life. There is no death because
God’s Son belongs to Immortality.

This is a day of joy. Today the world
lays down its dreams beside a cross that was
itself a dream. Behold the dream of death
and waken, seeing that it had no cause,
and so did not exist. What never was
can not be now. Today we pass it by,
for this purpose of this day should be:
what is made whole is whole, and cannot die.

Do not confuse the cross with sacrifice,
nor death with life. The Will of God is one,
and knows no differences nor opposites.
In love it has created but one Son,
in whom the whole creation still remains.
How can his name be changed who bears the Name
His Father called as His? he does not change,
because his will forever is the same.

What does he yearn for but his Father’s house?
Had he a different will his death might be
reality. But when he reconciled
what never had an opposite, then he
could never die. His life was not his own,
being of God. This day arise and come
with Me. For there is life. It is God’s Will.
Today shall you be with Me in our home.

Watch this powerful 20-minute video clip. It helped me more clearly understand the roll of ego and Holy Spirit in our life. http://www.ted.com:80/talks/view/id/229 by Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight.

Our brain acts as a receiver and storage device in retrieval and processing of thoughts. The brain consists of two halves - a right and left hemisphere - each operating with different functions. Comparing it to a computer, the left hemisphere is a serial processor - storing and retrieving linear information - remembering the past and projecting the future. The right hemisphere operates as a parallel processor - tuning into a frequency connecting all humans with each other and their Source, receiving inspiration.

Recall the discoveries of neuroscientist Karl Pribram. His work demonstrated that the brain is a transducer, or receiving and translating station of quantum information – much like a radio. Ordinarily, the brain is highly discriminating in its job as a frequency analyzer. It contains a certain ‘envelope’ or mechanism, which limits the other infinite wave information available to it, so that we are not bombarded with limitless wave information contained in the collective consciousness.

We might say the left half represents ego and the right half is connected to Holy Spirit. We know that ego is nothing but a collection of thoughts - it’s a conditioned thought process consisting of ideas given us by parents, teachers and others; and by individual experiences accumulated while living on earth. Holy Spirit is our connection to Oneness of the Christ reflecting the presence of our Creator. When we meditate, or listen to the Voice for God, we are in our right-brain. Often time seems to stand still and space expands beyond our body. We tend to be out of the illusion of time and space. When we are immersed in left-brain thought, we feel separate from each other and from our Source. We identify the individual “me, myself, or I” in ordinary perception.

Both brain hemispheres operate in concert to protect us (left-brain) and guide us (right-brain) in the experience of life on this planet. The ego thought system serves it’s purpose in linear processing of time and space and the Holy Spirit gently guides us through the maze of holographic possibilities. Together they balance our experience as Spiritual Beings acting in mortal bodies.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. Watch this powerful video: http://www.ted.com:80/talks/view/id/229 or http://youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

Posted by Alan Brooks, Mar 13, 2008:

Strange as this may sound, since I’ve stopped reading the Course and doing the lessons I seem to be learning a great deal about it. While I was playing with the idea of what I am not, I began to notice how I keep myself separate from feeling like I’m in the flow with Life. When I feel like I’m in the flow with Life I feel relaxed and at peace. Yet saying this begs the question, “Flowing with what?” My answer is, “With that which created me.”

Now, I can spend a huge amount of time trying to figure out what it is that created me. But if I don’t know what I am, how the hell can I expect myself to figure out what my Creator is. So I’m not going to waste any time wondering about that right now. I’m going to keep it simple. I know I did not create myself. I know I cannot sustain myself separate from everything else that exists, and I know I cannot spontaneously extinguish myself. Logic, therefore, tells me I was created, I am being sustained, and I will be extinguished or changed at a time not of my choosing.

To put this stuff in Course terms, I cannot be separate from God. I am sustained by God and I will be transformed by God in His/Her time. The difficulty I have with using Christian terms is that this nomenclature has an emotional connotation for me that is filled with unhappy baggage. Subconsciously I start thinking I have some idea what the word God means, and that meaning is not a good thing. That’s why I try to avoid using Christian words. I don’t want to fill in the blank, so to speak, with a concept based in my indoctrination as a child.

I am also noticing that I feel better when I am willing to remain in a state of unknowing. If I have matured at all in any spiritual sense it is in being able to say I am more willing to be in that condition, that unknowing, without trying to do anything about it, than I have been before. I also know experientially that when I do that I can then trust that what arises in my experience is not so much of my own making. I can feel more confident that my ego isn’t quite as involved in generating my experience.

From this position, this unknowing state, I can easily see what parts of my experience I still want to maintain as separate from Life and therefore my own personal responsibility. Immediately my body comes to my mind. I’m very much into controlling it so that it will feel good, or at least so that it doesn’t hurt. Now I’m beginning to wonder what would happen if I truly released my death grip on my body. Right this minute I can admit I’m not doing so well being its manager. I’m wondering what would happen if I let Original Cause have it back to do with as It would.

I’m really curious about this. I want to know what will happen. Which means the only way I am going to be able to find out is to let go. Letting go is a gesture of consciousness that results in me moving directly into a state of unknowing. So the real question is can I relax and remain in that state without making some effort to understand what so far has been unfathomable? Am I really willing to live in relationship with Life as the mystery that It is? Am I willing to allow Life to live me rather than thinking I am living “my life”?

I’m grinning now because I see that all I have are questions. I have no answers. None, zero, zip, nada. It would appear I am always in a state of unknowing whether I recognize it at the moment or not. Oh my, to give up the illusion that I am in charge of my life! Now that idea smacks of both terror and relief. Today I sense more relief available than terror resulting.

There is a story I like about an old Chinese man who lived beside a raging river. Everyone in his village knew he did not know how to swim. They were all understandably alarmed when they saw the old man fall from a bridge into the boiling water. Some time later he was seen climbing out of the water on the opposite bank. They ran to him and embraced him, delighted he had survived. Then, someone asked, “Old man, if you don’t know how to swim, how did you make it through all that raging water?”

The old man smiled and said, “I accommodated myself to the river.”

Instead of wasting any more energy insisting Life accommodate Itself to me and my sense of a separated self, maybe I can get into the flow with Life that feels the best if I accommodate myself to It. Jesus, could peace be that simple?

Alan

Dear Alan,

It’s quite remarkable what you have written. You’re the third person now who has said almost the same thing within hours of each other. Yesterday it was in a letter from Sina, and today it was in a letter from Phil Frisk:

Phil wrote: My head is full of teachings and my library is full of books explaining how it all works. Now I feel like clearing the shelves and the understanding and simply be in the moment without doing anything or searching for answers - or even having questions. I feel I’ve made so much spiritual progress in employing the processes taught by Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, David Hawkins, Lester Levenson, Werner Erhard, Gary Craig, Joel Goldsmith, Lillian DeWaters, Jeshua ben Joseph and too many others to mention. But, now that I know myself, I realize I’ve made a lot of spiritual progress to NOTHING. There’s nothing to know. There is only to BE - without trying to figure it out. Now I am happy.

Sina wrote: You will more likely see the truth when you are unsure of everything. When you don’t know anything, when you have nothing to hold on to, when you aren’t even sure of the existence of your own mind. Not that you believe that there is no mind, which would be just one more thing to cling to, just that you don’t believe or don’t know. You mistrust all your thoughts. Then the presence of truth will be obvious. You may try to own it again by saying “I am!” or something and think you understand it, and you will think you know something again. It’s only pride and arrogance that makes you want to know something, plus the fear of not being in control. Don’t try to own the truth with your mind. You will never know this. It’s a matter of being born, not knowing what “being born” is and means. You can’t know. You don’t have to know. The knowing is what’s in the way.

Thank you Phil and Alan and Sina!

Much Love,

Ben