Life is so simple that we completely miss the point. In our lives, we try to come up with a concept in order to discover the meaning of life. Once we have thought it through, we find the answer, but later our perception changes and we come up with a new definition. Yet, in order to understand life, we actually need to drop every concept we have come up with during our lives.
This is why it seems so hard. We find it necessary to structure our perceptions and create concepts in order to justify our way of living. It needs to be a specific, perhaps complicated system, like all of our present day religions. We refuse to let go of the mind, even though the simple truth will only come when the mind is silenced. Life is one and everything, so any separation involved in the understanding of life will be a false representation.
We go searching everywhere for something with meaning, something that lasts. But out in the world, we can never find satisfaction. But we go for it again and again, since we are unaware of any other options. So we hurt ourselves each time, living in separation, subject and object, and we can't accept the fact that only complete oneness and equality is eternally perfect.
Why is that so? Oneness and equality cannot bring about thought, as the mind consists of changing separation. We aren't patient enough to live oneness and equality because we have our habits and attachments that we refuse to give up. Salvation seems to not exist outside of that- it's the only thing we know and trust.
The truth of life cannot be complicated! We live unhappy, complicated lives, so it must be something very fundamental and simple that we are missing. We have to be empty in order to realize our inherent fullness, and Being is only found in not being. There are no opposites (including that of opposites vs. non-opposites), there are no hierarchies, and there is no separation in the truth of life. Life IS, so we must be HERE and let go of our patterns, traits, differences, attachments, our habits... even our minds.
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Thanks for the heads up, but I'd rather pass. I'm through with working with consciousness to create an artificial reality. Consciousness is of the mind, which is interesting, because Zen Buddhism teaches the importance of no-mind. Nevertheless, I encourage you to follow through with your actions.
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