The question of God

I just be-bopped over to newsweek which had a debate of theism and atheism.

I love how silly we as humans can be.

Perhaps both theism and atheism are correct?

*GASP* how can that be so?

Well why does one have to be better than the other? ... Other than to satisfy our own limited capabilities to understand.

Perhaps God is like the debate we saw in physics for 500 years about light... is light a particle or a wave . A debate that ended only because someone answered: It's both depending on how you measure it. Which means light is more than a particle and a wave, it's something which has characteristics of both.

Perhaps God is of the same nature. I could go on and on why this is so, but such arguments don't matter, as people will always measure God with their own instruments and understanding.

I suspect this answer will be sure to upset most people. And if this answer doesn't upset you, then perhaps you are closer to being a Taoist than you ever realized.

The most basic truth to this whole debate is as follows:

Until a person accepts themselves that person has no hope to understand God. This is the simplest truth of all.

Peace and acceptance in your way.

Quotes

I love this quote:

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Doctor Who

It so applies to those running our government currently...

Nature doesn't change Mr Bush... no matter how hard you try to change the facts

Peace

Tags: Politics | Quotes

Letting go

Letting go

We think.. and stop right there! Thats part of the problem of letting go.

We think it's about letting the mind relax.

Yes thats part of it. But only a part.

The body also has to relax, to let go of years of accumulated stress:
all the anger one pounds into the feet,
all the stress binding the hamstrings,
all the strain in the wrists,
all that stuff the body has been taught to hold together.

The body has to learn how to let that go...

And the spirit:

The spirit needs to learn to fly again
to be free and not constrained by leases of the mind and body.

This all interrelates in letting go
as it's all bound up:
Mind Body and Spirit.

To let go : is to truly fully let it all go.

and once this is done...

well then thats a new starting point and a new post...

:)


Peace

Technorati: Mind | Body | Spirit | Release | Taoism

Publishing a Book

So what is this all about?

Different and all the same. Which side of the coin are you on today?

A Personal Tao is different enough that it will be hard to find a publisher. Publishers want a product which will sell. The mass market never wants to risk something new, it desires to follow safe and pre-defined trends. I have only submitted the book to two publishers. One publisher has sent me this feedback after I asked their opinion:

I recall the book being very unique and rather nonlinear in its narrative construction. From an aesthetic perspective, it was beautiful. Filled with solid wisdom. From a for-profit publisher’s perspective, it would not fit into either the square nor the round hole of trade publishing, so you may have a hard time finding a traditional publisher to publish it in its current incarnation.

Heh! A Personal Tao is most assuredly not about trends or following the leader, it’s about following yourself.

Some days I do get frustrated and throw my hands up and say I am dropping it all. Throw everything into the fire and just meander, oh how I love to meander. I mean seriously why bother with the book and everything I am writing? I give the book and work away for free, as it isn’t about the money and money is all about power, and power is just a “wot-ever”. Real power is just being myself.

Also: I know in the end we don’t save the world. So I am not writing for some larger noble purpose. It might have started that way, years ago, with a desire to help make the world a better place. I wouldn’t mind helping to make the world nicer, but I already do that just by being kind and living as myself…

The world is the world, and will turn and tumble about thru space without my assistance thank you.

It’s so much easier to just not write and craft and interact. Also as my meditation practice is going ever deeper, I have less and less desire to really interact, and I already was a hermit.

So in all seriousness this is actually a mirror. I have always used this Blog as place to talk with myself, and the book as a deep reflecting pool.

We as humans so love to lie to ourselves: in thoughts, in whimsy, in day dreams. So instead, I just have learned to write aloud my actions and reflections as a way to not lie to myself.

Ever do yoga? When you do a pose, you feel like your are a certain way, but in reality you are doing something different. It’s the same for our spiritual practice. We might think we are doing well , but in our actions we are not what we think we are.

I write and I continue talk to others and until I die, I will polish and add and tweak A Personal Tao… Simply because:

It helps me connect and see the world not as I feel it, but as I actually live it.

And some day who knows which of my paths I will embrace in this expression of life, so many options are available to… Until then and even after then I will follow the heart and refine, define and keep getting better at the practice and the crafting of words. Very much a tidal process back and forth.

In time A Personal Tao will be published by a larger print house, what’s a few years here or there in journey.




Peace

Technorati: Publishing | Books | Life | Taoism

Yin and Yang

I just finished writing up a page about Yin - Yang


comments are always appreciated :)


Peace

Technorati: Yin | Yang | Yinyang | Taoism

To Fly

A storm blew thru last night. It was as if a giant train blasted on by.

The clouds were streaming pass, looking up it was all Hollywood special effects of time moving by at 4X speed.

I myself was in a cocoon healing and renewing. For so many reasons, patiently waiting for the storm to pass.

It's a beautiful morning... stunning blue with traces of white puffs of clouds randomly tossed about and its all below and above to the side ... all around as I soar in a new day.

A seed waits.
A child plays.
Adults rush about.
Storms swish forth
mixing it all together

I am reaching for the sky
simply by growing.

It's time to learn to fly.

Be free, be yourself.
Peace


Technorati: Peace | Flying | Change | Taoism

Where you are...

It's never a question of where you are.

Some days waking up, liking the person we are:
to be where we want to be.

Some days not liking our selves:
reflecting as not being happy in where we are.

It's sooo easy to try to move , to run , to shift...
when sooo often
It's simply about the patience to be oneself freely.


Be free, be yourself.

Peace


Technorati: Peace | Where | Who | Taoism

Meditation

A meditation I practice is:

A Mantra of Silence.

Surrounding sounds form the mantra of my silence.

Surrounding sights spin around as a vision.

Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
trying to define an uncarved block of me.
The illusion of pressure is resisting
a larger truth of having no shape.

Letting go into silence...
as the world tumbles past me...
as quietly as snow falling in the forest.

Revealed within an inner peace of acceptance.

A Mantra of Silence is simply: Acceptance.

I have started to write a new section about meditation and this post is a starting place for my notes right now.

It's no surprise how something so simple as meditation can take so long to learn in a culture based upon noise :)


Peace

John Carter of Mars

Here is the next imaginary science scandal, and yet something more underneath it all...

The original picture can be found here: Mars Landscape

Notice the rock in the picture which appears as a human skull.

OK now this is a rock till proven otherwise, not John Carter's skull left over from some Mars romp. And I so love the Warlords of Mars books, some of my favorite stories growing up as a kid.

I just mention this, as this in years to come probably will be the next Mars scandal picture of NASA covering up life on Mars.

Oh it's so fun to be human and to project our desires outward. We so so so desire not to be alone in the universe. And we are not alone, we share the world with many many things... including rocks which look like skulls.

Does it really matter if that rock like skull once had free will or not? And thats the whole question and point: Are we alone in being alive?...

We so desire the answer to be : No.

What truly matters is how we live here and now and to enjoy the wonder of each second... Heh, just now some people will now wonder if there is a skull on Mars: and you know thats really is OK, as it fuels dreams of exploration to find ourselves.

Is that a bad thing? Nope in fact its a fun thing! It drives us and gives meaning to move on to continue exploration of our perceptions and how we view the world: each and every day.

And thats the point, the question is not about whether we are alone in the universe. The statement instead truly becomes: We are alive and are all about exploring the limits of living!

Peace

Coherent Spam, terrorism and political responses.

I recently got a spam mail which had the typical new payload of the graphic spam. What was interesting is the text message itself:

Starting off it said:

CASEY: Well, I think we've made our general views clear about Syrian interference in Lebanese affairs

From there the entire text message was a complete and a relatively coherent political statement.

This is interesting as a new spam beast. While it still had spam bomb hidden in the graphic file, the spammer got creative in the text portion. Instead of the normal random collection of sayings to trying to trick the spam filters they sent a complete political message.

In effect this was double spam... one spam message of an economic nature and one spam message of a political nature...It was a 2 for one deal.

What if spammers began to send decent poetry or news items in their spam? What could that do for the spammer industry I wonder? Spammers have nothing to lose since everyone hates spammers more than Hitler or Bush or Saddam by now anyways...so why not also make the text portion more interesting?

Heh, and I am sure because of keywords I used in this post (bombs and comparing Bush with Hitler and Saddam), NSA sniffers have picked this up and marked it for some human review in some American counter terrorism review process... :)

To you: the poor NSA reader I wish you peace today. I hope you have a good day. Since it must be a hard job pouring pass all the crap the electronic internet filters pass your way for review.

What a silly world we live in with spammers and the government be-bopping in our blogs and emails and all about...

Peace


Tags: Spam | Email | Spies