NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN DUALITY
I sense something is wrong with the Universe, especially as regards the concept of progress. I literally do not see actual progress around me. It seems that the more things change in terms of technology, the more the basic problems in life still hang around. Life as we know it is still as stupid, fraught with difficultly, and essentially pointless as it was 5000 years ago. The biggest difference is our ability to manufacture the things of the earth into other things. But the problems they are touted as being able to solve are still here. Literally, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The invention of the wheel made carting goods from one place to another faster and perhaps easier assuming you ignore the problems inherent with the utilization of a wheel, namely keeping the wheel in good repair, care of the axle, and generally making sure that the moving parts are kept moving in such a manner as it causes the fewest problems possible, which is of course impossible since one day or another something will wear out or outright break. Then there is the inevitability of the wheel becoming a burden as sooner or later there will be a rocky, jagged mountain in the path of the wheel which needs a relatively smooth surface to operate. And what happens when you encounter the eventual expanse of water?
Is a wheel a cure for transporting goods? Or just a treatment at best? After all, the problem of transporting things still exists. It does not go away because of the sudden presence of the invention.
Given this simple demonstrable truth, one has to wonder if ANYTHING we do in this journey called life has any lasting effect, if it nullifies the problems we intend to solve, if it combats the perceived evils we encounter each day, each hour, each minute?
The only way to nullify a perceived problem is to transcend it. Life itself seems to me to be a problem, a huge problem, a misperception of consciousness itself, a grand illusion, a natural result of perception that arises from the emergence of Duality, which is a natural expression of life itself. Life happens in Duality. Only in the realization of such can the fallacy of life itself be remedied.
Life and Death are opposites and the same thing. They are perceptions of the same thing, just taking place at different moments in perception. Life is just a series of moments, experienced one after another, perceived as Time, which is an illusion. The very perception of life and death seem to me to be a disease whose cure is that of the nullification of Duality itself. This is accomplished thru a practice such as Yoga, the aim of which (as Yogananda described it) is the “cessation of the fluctuation of mind-stuff”.
It is said that Life is Sacred. Those who are living may tell you that they are afraid of life or even death, that they are scared to death of it all. Is it any wonder that the words “sacred” and “scared” are formed of the same letters?
Yoga is the Final Emancipation from the Duality of Life and Death. The culmination of yoga is the end of existence, the disappearance of the universe, or stated another way, the “end of the world”.
I do not see any conventional solution to the problem of life. Yes, I literally think of life as a problem that must be remedied. Its only cure is death, but not just physical death. I mean the death to the entire illusion of life and death and experience itself. Life leads nowhere. At the end you arrive at the beginning because you have not transcended the cycle itself. Life is a not-so-merry-go-round.
No matter how technological we become, no matter how clever we think we are, we will never solve the problem of just BEING HERE. The only solution, in my estimation, is to transcend the world, even the universe itself—to literally destroy the world, the universe. This is done, as far as I can tell, only thru the realization of the Truth, namely that ALL of this is an ILLUSION.
We are eternal. We are ONE. We are so completely supposed to be in a state of one-ness that it resembles a nothingness, a no-thing-ness. A stateless state of being-less being, being non-being, or defined another way…2 = 0.
Two equals zero. The illusion of being not-one (2) is removed thru realization of the Truth (=) which reveals us to be the eternal thing-no-thing (0) that we are. Zero means nothing. But the very concept of nothing is a thing. But zero is not considered a thing. But zero has to be considered a thing so that we can conceive of its nothingness and declare it to be nothing. We must disguise that which does not exist as some ‘thing’ that does exist so that we can declare its inherent non-existence.
Even lies have to be considered as lies in truth to be declared a lie. So you see, even things that are false are true.
So you see, thought itself is the problem. Such nonsense, as expressed above, is the result of thinking. Such nonsense is the result of being not-one with God, the Infinite, the Eternal.
The only way to stop the nonsense is to…stop. Period.
