A World in Crisis

Post Manuscript World Contemplation Intro: 11/24 -

"You think you are the wave but you are the ocean. This is the truth I point to."

>PAY ATTENTION<>OBSERVE<>BE MINDFUL<

          - A World in Crisis: the weird and the wonderful.

For me, the so-called material and physical world with all its ever-changing anomalies, dramas and creations is still a miraculous, strange, beautiful and curious appearance, experience and event.

>BE AWAKE<

It is still strange and puzzling to me to think and quietly observe and contemplate that one day this temporary self-aware embodied form and conscious construct with all its ever-changing, impersonal and fleeting thoughts, feelings, perceptions, views, ideas, opinions, urges and sensory experiences will be no more, and yet I fully acknowledge, accept and know this is simply the way things are in this transitory dual material and conceptual world and realm of constant change and changing creations. 

Attachment to this world of change and all its creations can only cause us suffering.

As with all spiritual and philosophical teachings, both past and present, they continuously remind and tell us all that there is no real permanence to be had, found, gained and owned in the worldly things, forms, phenomena, dramas, projections, impulses, desires, urges and creations of this ever-changing conditioned and conceptual fleeting and transitory material and physical world of constant change. All so-called things, forms, dramas, phenomena and creations are permanently marked and bound by impermanence. However much we might try to attach and hold on to things, experiences and creations, all this will come to pass. All these so-called things, dramas, experiences and creations are transitory and will eventually cease to be.

        Impermanence is the very conditioned nature of all things, forms, phenomena and creations.

>WATCH<>EXAMINE<>KNOW<

            - Direct Experience

Even now today with all that I enthusiastically and confidently present and share here, both spiritually and philosophically, on this so-called esoteric blog on the true absolute nature and truth of reality, identity and experience, I am still slightly mystified and over-shadowed by the world's seeming meaningless, randomness, chaos, brutality and questionable profound and miraculous existence, spontaneity, order, indifference and beauty. Maybe it is all simply a beautiful and strange spontaneous miraculous mystery and cosmic happening and event that is truly beyond any of us to really and fully unravel and solve in any genuine conclusive, agreeable and satisfactory way. Perhaps this is the great unknown of knowing.

However much we might acquire, gain, own and have in this fleeting and ever-changing world of constant change and transitory creations and phenomena it will not prevent or stop the passing and ending of all sensory things, forms, dramas, creations, realms, urges, impulses, desires and events. This is its ever-present unsatisfactory, ever-changing and restless nature. Absolute.

"For me, all moments are a unique one time expression of Reality. Unique and yet transitory. Only this Reality endures. Only this Reality is real. All creation is this ever-present awake and known Reality."

"You are the ocean, not the waves. Wake up and know."

As I see and experience it, it is very easy for us as individualized forms and self-aware constructs to become and be very mentally and emotionally attached, identified and invested in this impersonal and imperfect physical appearance and mental construct and projection that we call mind and body, and all the ever-changing sensory worldly experiences, urges, desires, dramas and sensations that come with having them, despite being aware and knowing it will all be cast aside eventually. As a temporary self-aware construct death awaits us all. For me, this is an ever-present worldly and material puzzle that has always stayed with me; wanting, waiting and needing to be solved. What is real? What is it to exist and not exist? 

        Who am I? What is the truth of Reality?

           - Understanding the Great Mystery

For me, as a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory world construct and form, it has always been somewhat puzzling and challenging to always observe, experience and accept an ever-changing and ageing material and conceptual world that is consistently plagued and impacted by hatred, cruelty, greed, hardship, poverty, sickness, loss, authoritarianism, conflict, superiority, indifference and inequality. This is not to say there are not beautiful things and rewarding phenomena and unique moments to experience, love, acquire, share and have in this temporary worldly and material fleeting miraculous experience and existence of birth, living, ageing, decay and dying, but as with all conditioned, created and conceptual things, creations, forms, dramas and phenomena, this too will all come to pass and end. As a temporary self-aware embodied and sensory conscious construct and form we all have to let it all go in the end. Impermanence is the very conditioned and unsatisfactory nature of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas and creations.

Attachment to this world of change and all its transitory creations can only result in suffering.

>BE STILL<>LET GO<>KNOW<

To simply and freely love, celebrate, share and accept who we are and what life is, in and of itself, can be a day-to-day challenge for many of us, as well as dealing with the constant impersonal ebb and flow of worldly changes, dramas, expectations, demands, needs, impulses and challenges we will all have to face in one way or another as we navigate, live, act and play out this ever-changing and transitory material realm and physical world of constant change and creations. 

Worldly existence, by its very own nature, can make it challenging and hard for any of us to be consistently and fully content and satisfied in all that it offers, presents, delivers, gives, shares and is. It can at times be challenging and frustrating to consistently and fully understand, accept and make peace with the way things are in this ever-changing impersonal and sometimes brutal dual sensory material and conceptual world and universe. The ever-changing world and all its on-going dramas and creations can seem totally indifferent and unconcerned for the day-to-day demands, wants, urges and needs of having and living this miraculous  transitory embodied self-aware and ever-changing existence. 

And yet, for me, all moments of experience and experiencing can be seen and known as a unique never to be lived again expression of Reality. It is really only Reality that truly endures and exists. Reality is the truth, identity, essence, expression and origin of all things, phenomena, forms, dramas and creations.

            - To be Awake!

Here we all are in all our diverse, miraculous, beautiful and shared exposed, unpredictable and vulnerable conscious humanity temporarily and uniquely living, acting and playing out a transitory and fleeting self-aware embodied experience and existence of awareness knowingly knowing with all certainty it will sooner or later end and cease to be, and we have no real certainty and assurance as to when and how. Certainly for me, it has always raised and presented the contemplative and meditative question of who am I before I am and what am I when I no longer exist as a self-aware physical conscious sensory construct, projection and form? Who am I? What is this?

                    What is real? What is true happiness and freedom?

And yet as a fully embodied self-aware mind/body construct and form I am still baffled and puzzled by the reality of fully acknowledging, accepting and knowing the ever-present and harsh fact that, as I know my present self-aware embodied sensory experience and existence to be, I will in some near or distant future and uncertain time not be present as this particular and unique self-aware embodied conscious form in this ever-changing impersonal physical and material construct, realm and reality of space, time and form. All these worldly, material and sensory experiences, perceptions and dramas are limited, fleeting and temporary. All this will come to cease and end. All things, dramas, phenomena, forms and creations are bound and marked by impermanence. And yet, for me, all moments of sensory experience, existence and having experience can be viewed and seen as unique and ever-changing impersonal and cognitive expressions of Reality.

For me, it is only Reality that endures. It is this Reality that is absolute Truth.

>PAY ATTENTION<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<

For me, when silently considering and contemplating the truth of impermanence and the unsatisfactory nature of all things, dramas and creations it still completely amazes and baffles me that this ever-changing and impersonal sensory dual material, diverse and complex world of change and creations is still so largely driven, shaped, dominated and impacted by inequality, intolerance, hatred, greed, prejudice, misery, conflict, war, violence, self-importance and authoritarianism. It is crazy to me to think that such a small minority of individuals have and own so much of the world's material wealth and such a large volume of the world population still have so little of it. Let me be clear, who actually needs £100 billion dollars or even £1 billion dollars to live and play out such a short, temporary and fleeting existence? And so too with power. No individual in these present times should be trusted, let alone allowed, to have such extreme and unnecessary levels of wealth, status, authority, control, self-importance, superiority and power? I think world events, both past and present, show us all that it puts all our precious, worthy and fleeting lives at risk. And yet, these are only the waves of experience and not the ocean that I point to.

            For me, directly and intimately knowing the Truth and being awake is all that truly matters.

        - What is real?

I do ask myself as a physical embodied self-aware conscious construct, how is it that we as an on-going shared and global community still allow such a small minority of individuals or group of individuals to have so much authority, power, wealth, status and control over all our fragile, miraculous and vulnerable lives even when so many of these elected or non-elected individuals do little or nothing to improve, protect or better our day-to-day experience and ease of living, well-being, ageing, existing, happiness, peace, security, safety and dying? For me, this is certainly another unwelcome perplexing and challenging part of this so-called world and universal puzzle. The seeming unsatisfactory, fractured and restless nature of this ever-changing world of change and all its creations, indifference and dramas.

Why do we as a shared, intelligent and self-aware evolved species continue to allow, follow and accept a mostly out-dated consumerism and hierarchy world model that still only serves and benefits a very tiny minority of people in simply increasing, securing and protecting their already ridiculous and unnecessary gross levels of wealth, status, self-importance, control, self-gratification, authority, dominance and power? Maybe this is simply the imperfect and unsatisfactory nature of all creation and phenomena? Only Reality will endure all this. Reality is Truth. For me, only Reality is not tainted, touched or altered by any of this. The waves of existence do not alter, lessen, stop or remove the ocean.

Attachment and aversion to this on-going world of change can only result in suffering.

            - Knowing Truth

Of course with the spiritual and philosophical revelations presented and offered here on this esoteric blog I do see and accept the transcendental beauty and perfection in and of it all beyond what is material, physical, sensory, impersonal and conceptual. With the mystery of it all I do still silently marvel and celebrate at the very existence of what this beautiful and perplexing life, world and vast universe actually is and all the challenges, dramas, forms, creations and changes it delivers, offers and presents. Be it the on-going joys and sorrows, the gains and the losses, the successes and the failures. The pleasures and pain. The highs and the lows. The mundane and the miraculous. The world's quiet beauty and all its cruelty and indifference.

"You are the ocean, not the wave. Only this knowing of Reality can set you free."

As I see it, we all exist now as a unique and worthy temporary self-aware sensory embodied construct and conscious form of all that has come to pass and we also exist now as all that is yet to come. As I see it we are all the past, present and future as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary embodied self-aware sensory moment and conscious construct of Reality. Embodied, multiple and diverse expressions of Reality. This is absolutely something I believe and feel we can all directly come to fully recognize, know, respect and celebrate in all the beauty and brutality of birth, living, existing, playing, ageing, decay and dying. 

The on-going complexity and diversity of it all and its endless impersonal multiplicity and diversity of creations, forms, dramas, projections, desires, impulses and phenomena is its real immaculate and sacred beauty - its real transcendental, questionable, compelling and alluring  mystery. For me, it is all the one Reality recognizing, realizing and knowing its own timeless, boundless and limitless Reality. What some spiritual thinkers, teachers and yogis reference and label as God-consciousness. It is Reality becoming and being fully conscious of its own immaculate and boundless existence, unity and enduring presence. The I am of I am. Oneness. The ocean, not the waves, and yet the ocean and the waves are one. Absolute.

>BE PRESENT<>BE AWARE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<

As I see and know it, we all momentarily exist as a unique, beautiful and worthy temporary sensory embodied conscious expression of Reality in a space-time continuum that has unlimited potential and endless on-going possibilities. Both creative and destructive. Both loving and harmful. Both unique and similar. Both small and great. Both many and one. Both beautiful and dark. Both joyous and sad. Both pleasing and unsatisfactory. Both mundane and miraculous. Both rewarding and disappointing.

Wrongly or rightly, personally I do not think the past and present day world politics and organised religions have all the answers to what our future humanity should look like, become and be. It is its own on-going dance. This is the mystery that calls us to know. The waves and the ocean are one.

            - A New Paradigm

We all share and live in an ever-changing impersonal world of constant change that is still largely impacted and plagued by war, conflict, authoritarianism, greed, control, separation, hatred, prejudice, intolerance, violence, consumerism, self-gratification, ignorance and self-importance. 

With all the present day global environmental challenges and climate changes facing the future of our on-going precious, miraculous and shared humanity we all urgently need a fully united, enlightened and agreeable world leadership and collected consciousness and certainly not the present day divided and volatile one. World leaders or hierarchy individuals pursuing their own self-centred self-interests and personal desires to have more and more power, wealth, ownership, control, status, self-importance, superiority, self-gratification and authority will not bring a much needed united world consciousness and collective intention that will seriously act in the best interests and needs of the present day and future environmental challenges and climate changes that we will all have to face going forward. 

I'd certainly like to think in the very near future that a new, enlightened and shared paradigm or world consciousness will reveal and show itself in all the unrest and conflict that plagues, harms and impacts this present day material and physical world of constant change. I would like to think, perhaps foolishly, that what is freely and lovingly offered and presented here on this esoteric blog might potentially influence and contribute in some positive, constructive, awakened and enlightened way. An invitation to be awake!

                Who knows?

All I know is we all deserve better than what most of us are still managing and facing today. For me, we are a world in crisis and it is urgently in need of an enlightened, united , intelligent and loving world shift in consciousness and leadership, certainly if humanity is to unite, endure and survive. Obviously, these are only my present day world views, opinions and thoughts on the volatile and vulnerable state of the world. I am no one of any importance or influence and I am not saying any of this for us to get down on life. I am not trying to incite guilt, shame, worry, aversion, fear or blame. For me, it is all a spiritual calling to liberation, higher consciousness and awakened thought in the ever-changing face of it all. It is an attempt to fully reveal and establish Truth as the potential building blocks of life, birth, living, ageing, existing, decay and dying and the on-going uncertain, vulnerable and fragile future of humanity. 

            This is not nihilism. It is a genuine love for all that is. The silence and still beauty of life.

My genuine love and prayers to you all. Please if you can help support and share this esoteric blog it would be deeply appreciated. A sincere thank you to all. To all embodied souls and self-aware constructs who remain fully committed to love, freedom, unity, longevity, wisdom, equality and peace, I salute you all. We all deserve and need a united, enlightened, awake and loving world, not a divided and toxic one. All one.

>BE STILL<>BE SILENT<>OBSERVE<>BE AWAKE<>KNOW<

    Blessed be. Be awake.

This esoteric blog is dedicated to my earthly mother 'Rita' who transitioned on the 12th December 2021. A truly selfless, kind, beautiful, spiritual, inspirational and loving embodied soul, friend and mother. 

All these things will come to pass. Only Truth endures.

The one who is ignorant identifies with the wave. The one who is awake identifies with the ocean.

This is how I know it to be. Be awake.