The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
I am curious how others who disagree me view the world. I'd like to share my line of thought that brings me to this conclusion. The conclusion: There is only one thing existing, the rest is illusion.
Before you were born, there wasn't a 'you' in the way that you see yourself as an individual. There was no concept of you, there was no form for you, the elements that make up the currently existing you were scattered across existence, separated and not together as they are now. 'You' were still in transition, and throughout time the elements that make up you were used to make up a countless number of illusions, but the 'you' was still in the stream of existence, disillusionment.
You are now formed and you are the life resulting from the combination of all of these elements. You see yourself as separate from nature, whether or not you are aware of this being an illusion, you will always be bounded by this illusion as long as you have perception.
The meaning to your existence? Only you can find out. It's not how many think it would be. You weren't created and assigned a role that you have to live up to as destiny, instead the meaning of your life is active, seemingly coming about naturally, but I do believe natural occurrences are God's (the universe) will. Everything that happens is. Regardless of your view on God, though, the point I'm trying to get at is that you fulfill the meaning of life without even noticing it. The way your existence impacts all other parts of the universe IS your meaning of life.
In truth you are still in transition (God's will), but the illusion makes you appear separate as an individual. It's at your level that you perceive the world, from your perspective you do not notice all of the effects your existence brings to the world around you. It isn't only limited to all things 20 feet around you, you actually influence every other part of reality, even beyond the milky way galaxy. Your existence is like a string surrounded by many strings, and your vibration makes them vibrate too.
The nature of all physical things is imperfect, finite, impermanent, and bounded. Unlike spirituality, where freewill is complete, the actions you take in the physical reality are determined by cause and effect. Physical things have no freewill for two reasons; it's illusion, and it's "less real" (can't think of the word I'm looking for). The spiritual existence is free, and no freewill can contradict other freewill. In this spiritual existence you are once again disillusioned much like before you were born, but at the same time it was different you have existed once, and so your abstract self remains while the meatsuit decays. This is disillusionment because you don't experience individuality, you experience the true reality; the God consciousness, or mono-conscious. (Perhaps conscious isn't the right word, but it is a lot less confusing than saying 'life'.) You are once again hole, but you never were separate, you just couldn't find yourself yet.
Since physical reality is illusion, nothing is permanent. Our illusion makes us assign objects as separate things. So it's not really the physical reality that is impermanent, it's the illusion. Nothing disappears in physical reality, just rearranges, but to your perception it is impermanent.
We are all One Soul, all one physical body, and thus all One Reality, One Being.
This illusion will stick as long as you're in the physical reality. The problem is that most people aren't directly aware of spiritual existence, all they know is the physical world. It is very hard to let go, but until you do detach yourself from physical reality, you're stuck to it. Which is unfortunate, these people who can't let go are too attached to this existence, and this existence is very unattractive compared to the spiritual world.
Once you have detached yourself from the physical world, you can control it better, and eventually give up the desire to stay and move on into the perfect world of spiritual. You then not only comprehend the idea of returning to God, you actually became aware of the oneness.
Now i'm not asking you to believe all of that, I'm just essentially arguing that detachment is proven to lead to a life with little burden. Detaching yourself from little things and being happy with what you got makes one see reality a lot more beautifully. Now imagine detaching yourself from all things physical.
The universe undergoes a process that leads all things to the point they need to go, and "destroys" them when they are no longer needed. (destroyed from our perspective, rearranging from beyond). This process is cause and effect, and that's what controls all things.
Your body may die, but you will live on through the meaning you accomplished in life (the effects you brought upon reality). It's all just in transition, and realize you are this transition. Whether or not you agree that this transition is some sort of conscious will, the transition is observable. It is observable that you are part of it. And from that I draw the conclusion that you ARE the transition. You are the universe.
I shared my reasoning, time to hear your's. What is it that makes you believe we are not one? How can you look at the interdependence of this universe and still think all things are separate?
Before you were born, there wasn't a 'you' in the way that you see yourself as an individual. There was no concept of you, there was no form for you, the elements that make up the currently existing you were scattered across existence, separated and not together as they are now. 'You' were still in transition, and throughout time the elements that make up you were used to make up a countless number of illusions, but the 'you' was still in the stream of existence, disillusionment.
You are now formed and you are the life resulting from the combination of all of these elements. You see yourself as separate from nature, whether or not you are aware of this being an illusion, you will always be bounded by this illusion as long as you have perception.
The meaning to your existence? Only you can find out. It's not how many think it would be. You weren't created and assigned a role that you have to live up to as destiny, instead the meaning of your life is active, seemingly coming about naturally, but I do believe natural occurrences are God's (the universe) will. Everything that happens is. Regardless of your view on God, though, the point I'm trying to get at is that you fulfill the meaning of life without even noticing it. The way your existence impacts all other parts of the universe IS your meaning of life.
In truth you are still in transition (God's will), but the illusion makes you appear separate as an individual. It's at your level that you perceive the world, from your perspective you do not notice all of the effects your existence brings to the world around you. It isn't only limited to all things 20 feet around you, you actually influence every other part of reality, even beyond the milky way galaxy. Your existence is like a string surrounded by many strings, and your vibration makes them vibrate too.
The nature of all physical things is imperfect, finite, impermanent, and bounded. Unlike spirituality, where freewill is complete, the actions you take in the physical reality are determined by cause and effect. Physical things have no freewill for two reasons; it's illusion, and it's "less real" (can't think of the word I'm looking for). The spiritual existence is free, and no freewill can contradict other freewill. In this spiritual existence you are once again disillusioned much like before you were born, but at the same time it was different you have existed once, and so your abstract self remains while the meatsuit decays. This is disillusionment because you don't experience individuality, you experience the true reality; the God consciousness, or mono-conscious. (Perhaps conscious isn't the right word, but it is a lot less confusing than saying 'life'.) You are once again hole, but you never were separate, you just couldn't find yourself yet.
Since physical reality is illusion, nothing is permanent. Our illusion makes us assign objects as separate things. So it's not really the physical reality that is impermanent, it's the illusion. Nothing disappears in physical reality, just rearranges, but to your perception it is impermanent.
We are all One Soul, all one physical body, and thus all One Reality, One Being.
This illusion will stick as long as you're in the physical reality. The problem is that most people aren't directly aware of spiritual existence, all they know is the physical world. It is very hard to let go, but until you do detach yourself from physical reality, you're stuck to it. Which is unfortunate, these people who can't let go are too attached to this existence, and this existence is very unattractive compared to the spiritual world.
Once you have detached yourself from the physical world, you can control it better, and eventually give up the desire to stay and move on into the perfect world of spiritual. You then not only comprehend the idea of returning to God, you actually became aware of the oneness.
Now i'm not asking you to believe all of that, I'm just essentially arguing that detachment is proven to lead to a life with little burden. Detaching yourself from little things and being happy with what you got makes one see reality a lot more beautifully. Now imagine detaching yourself from all things physical.
The universe undergoes a process that leads all things to the point they need to go, and "destroys" them when they are no longer needed. (destroyed from our perspective, rearranging from beyond). This process is cause and effect, and that's what controls all things.
Your body may die, but you will live on through the meaning you accomplished in life (the effects you brought upon reality). It's all just in transition, and realize you are this transition. Whether or not you agree that this transition is some sort of conscious will, the transition is observable. It is observable that you are part of it. And from that I draw the conclusion that you ARE the transition. You are the universe.
I shared my reasoning, time to hear your's. What is it that makes you believe we are not one? How can you look at the interdependence of this universe and still think all things are separate?