Is the world practical? Well, in itself, it’s just a meaningless birth-death machine, a cosmic meat grinder — or at least an extremely peculiar form of abstract art that we don’t know what to do with, like a bizarre Rube Goldberg device that endlessly cycles back on itself. But seen as a way to wake up, it is practical. It is the means to wake up. We must use it to get to the other side, as it were, then it makes sense — and only then.
It’s like a nightmare whose only purpose is to get you to open your eyes.
Reading this, I can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief- the reminder somehow taking the weight of trying to figure it all out off of my shoulders. It seems way too easy sometimes to get caught up in trying to live “right” in the relative… and losing connection to what really matters.
April 11th, 2011 permalinkYes.
Thank you.
April 11th, 2011 permalinkIt’s interesting to witness my awareness of the nightmare, and my paradoxical tendency to still reach to it for salvation. This is balancing out the more I practice. In time!
April 13th, 2011 permalinkI like how you describe the earth as a place to wake up. My view is that our existence here provides an intersection of different types of information, with the human brain being an important mediator or gateway and providing us with conscious experience along the way. Importantly, our earthly existence allows these different types of information to evolve.
December 15th, 2011 permalink