I am reading a book by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama titled The Universe in a Single Atom. It has been illuminating on many key issues of existence, giving me the Buddhist perspective--which mirrors my own but is a lot less destructive and reductionist.
I've decided to adopt more of these ideas and return to a progressive philosophy.
There is something about the cosmic nature of the universe, and ourselves, that is united at the very core.
What it is is not a thing-actually. More of a structure, or a form, around which all life dances, to which all creation humbles itself.
When we lack understanding of one or more of the states which this form takes on, we enter a darkness within the psyche.
We fear that which we do not understand. I am as much guilty of this as anyone and everyone else. Therefore, to overcome fear we must strive to understand.
Full understanding--Absolute understanding--is to conceive of the totality of all possible states of affairs, to understand the structure by becoming the structure [becoming god]. (of course there are all kinds of linguistic paradoxes when arrive at the godhead, but understanding transcends conceptualization).
This is not an actual state of affairs within this existence, but instead an arrow, a direction to guide us through a fluid existence.
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