The whole universe is a manifestation of opposites interacting. All that we experience is an interaction that is usually lumped into the category of good or evil.
Another perspective is to say all is either creative or destructive. But are they really different? Every time someone performs actions that are creative, are they not also involved in the process of destroying something (or several things) in order to create that new thing? The answer is obvious when you think about it.
Likewise every time someone destroys something, are they not indirectly creating a new reality in the process?
All is change. Creation is change. Destruction is change. Both are inexorably linked to each other. They are just opposite poles of change. And change is an underlying Principal Truth.
But even change itself has an opposite—Changelessness. Or think of it the following way. That which is Eternal is unchanging; if a thing does not change, then it exists perpetually and hence is Changeless or Eternal. And the concept of Change itself is one that is Eternal because it is Constant—it does not change. Think about that. Change, though by the very definition of the word, states that a thing is anything but Eternal because it can be changed, yet the concept of Change itself is unchanging, Eternal. The word itself hides its own true hidden nature.
The Canadian rock group Rush stated in their hit song Tom Sawyer, “Changes aren’t permanent, but Change is.”
All that takes place is constant change, falsely perceived by us as one thing or another, but changes nonetheless. Anytime we set out to change something in the world, someone out there will perceive it as either helpful or harmful to them at some level. And no matter how you look at it, it is a form of force, rape even. Despite our best intentions and seemingly good actions, we often do little more than cause hell for others. As the old saying goes, “The road to Hell is often paved with good intentions.”
Politicians, despots and governments in general are eternally famous for creating hell on earth with their so-called good intentions. They may think that what they do is good for the people, but the fact is nothing they do is really beneficial for everyone. Recall Abraham Lincoln’s comment about fooling some of the people some of the time, most of the people most of the time, but not all the people all of the time? One could turn this around and say that your so-called good intentions can help some of the people some of the time, most of the people most of the time, but it is impossible to help everyone with every good intentioned action on your part all of the time. Such grandiose expectations of one’s actions are the sign of a small mind clouded by a big ego.
And do we need to even state that the bad intentions of Politicians, despots, and governments which result in destruction and war do little more than create a living hell on earth (and a lot of cash for those feeding the war machine)? I see no reason to further elaborate on this point.
So is there any way around this quandary of causing hell no matter what you do? I may be wrong here, I think there is.
As far as I have been able to determine, the only action or work that is appropriate at any time is that which is offered (for lack of a better word) to the world, to be used or ignored of their own free will, utilizing a personal choice unforced by any means (such as marketing or deceptive advertising). The idea here is to neither give something undeservedly to anyone nor unfairly take away from them what little they have.
The point to keep in mind is always to simply offer your skills, work and service to others, not to force your skills, work and “service” under the guise of “helping” people, for this good-intentioned action always results in a forced hell for someone out there (sometimes the very person you are forcing your help upon).
If you can simply resist the urge to “help” when no help is really needed, as well as refusing help when it isn’t really needed, then you will be in the middle ground between good and evil, creation and destruction. You will live a peaceful life of peaceful service that is neither unnecessarily forced nor cruelly restricted as the situation dictates in either circumstance.
What I have described above seems (in my opinion) one way to live in heaven, a method of action that can help create the Utopian dream of Heaven on Earth. Anything else, no matter how slight a deviation, is the first step in the direction of Hell.
Using analogy, we can apply these concepts of change and changelessness to sex and in particular to the practice of Tantra. Simply stated, the man assumes the position of the eternal, the changeless. And the woman assumes that of the changeable.
Technically the man reflects changelessness in that during the Tantric sex act his penis is “eternally” rigid, fixed and unyielding while the woman mirrors changeability in that her vagina is soft, flexible and yielding to accommodate the man within her body.
Ideally, the man sits there more or less motionless with the woman on his lap able to move freely as she desires. By their perfect interaction, they imitate occult Principals at work in the whole Universe. Operating together, each participant “cancels out” the other, with the result being they both experience the Joy of Love, Ecstasy and Peace of Mind.
