There are essentially two popular, approved, accepted, traditional, myths in our day and age, spread all across the western lands, that undermine the very nature of the self's reality power.
1. The first is the idea that God does everything, created everything, and left us to fend for ourselves with guidance of a holy book, and for some a 'holy spirit.' The reason why this idea is so appealing is because it's implies that the essential foundation of all things is made so as to achieve a priority contrived by an all knowing, and loving, being. However appealing this idea may be, it takes away from the creative ability of any who surrender and submit themselves to it. A church is not just a Church, it is an organization of explicit beliefs that are conducive to your style of living and your behavior. Morality, purpose, meaning, traditions, these concepts each have a variety of different approaches, or answers, because there are a variety of religions that answer them. The truth behind this is, we like fish that go into one place and glow Christian and another and glow Jewish are really defining ourselves by are promotion of cause, and our adherence to beliefs. To escape from this myth, to see beyond it is to realize that humans create civilizations, that we are endowed with a nature, caused by past adaption, but that we now are creating ourselves by the tools of our own devising, production, and actualization. 2. The second myth is the one currently being studied and researched by the scientists of today. It is only myth because it is a incomplete, and skewed explanation of the universe. The study, incomplete as it is, portentously and ominously deems everything that exists as an "accident". This single word provokes the idea of meaningless in those that want and feel the desire in them to value their place "in the cosmos." If you are nothing more then an accident desiring to live, love, observe, and work, you are not going to feel as comfortable in your life as you would believing that you are purpose drawn; so it is that this notion can distress those who don't understand the truth of all embracing, self created "abstraction". The reason why this idea of the universe being a cosmic joke is just plain silly is because most people who haven't studied philosophy, have a false or primitive understanding of the words and the meanings of accident and purpose among many other words. An accident means that nothing is responsible, or that something which caused an event is of no importance, or the cause escapes our awareness and calculative prescience (this is to say ability to know future, or reasons for things). A purposeful event is one that happens because we are aware of it intentions, its cause, and its usage. A maxim can be made from the fact, that everything that is matter matters. Everything serves a purpose, but not everything serves a purpose to fulfill one single intent. A pen can be thrown or it can be used as a writing utensil. The purpose is there, and it will do what it will do, either in combination with the will of the self-consciousness or the law based forces of non-aware event creation. When we revise our definitions of cause and effect, of purpose and meaning, of intelligence, awareness, and energy, we will start to comprehend the nature of oneness, and our own selves as participating reality makers. This will take place ever the more so as we comprehend the consequences of actions, the forces of the physical world, and our place among and of them. The law of causation is understood simply as: (1) Do something and then get a certain result. (2) Do not do that something and then one does not get the corresponding result. This law of causation, is all encompassing phenomena, and our sciences are trying to come to terms with the causes and the results that best create the living experience that is the human and earthly one.
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The word yoga means "union with". One may ask union with what? Or what is the real purpose of yoga? There are several different types of yoga. There is the yoga of connecting with the body, with breathing, then there is a yoga of joining mind with a stillness with in. Both types of yoga, refresh the body, and give clarity to the mind.
Meditation is similar to yoga, but most often meditation doesn't include any physical exercise. Meditation is a mental exercise. There are many ways to meditate, and many subjects on which to meditate. Meditation is most often a type of behavior that includes stillness. Like all repeated behavior, the act of participating in a practice of meditation yields like results at other times when not meditating. The results may include clarity or mindful reaction to name a few well known prospects. Meditation can be both contemplative, as in contemplating or following a line of thought, or one can use a mantra meditation such as 'Om' or some lyric that is recited which brings about tranquility. Mantra's may also include prayers, or words of personal desire. There is also karma meditation, which is the thought of cause and effect, and then there is Zen meditation which is contemplation on unity, and connection between things. Alan Watts, taught that the purpose of stilling the mind in meditation is to see, to understand, that the purpose of existence can be found in every moment. If it weren't for sun, there would be no eyes. If it weren't for trees, there would be no breath. If it weren't for planet there would be no people. If it weren't for the seas there would no evolution of species as such. Many have put away their inner sense of connection with the world, and replaced it with seen connection. This is the cause of modern materialism.
What is most important to the self existence of a person? A god named Kairos came down from the sky, with a machete in his hand to a monk, and asked the monk, "what is more you, the earth or your three fingers?" The monk looked at the god, and his large machete and out of fear and ease of perception replied, "but of course my finger's are more me then the earth." At this Karios flew off and with his left foot, kicked the earth from out beneath the monk. This parable reveals both how we are connected to the world in variation of importance to our being, more then how we see through our eyes. When we use inner perception oneness reveals itself more accurately. We depend on the world, on the exterior, just as much as we depend on the internal consciousness that we each call "I." Though the two are separate, like stomach and mind, mind and one's living world are one action. Over-thinking the dependency is also a problem, for the mind is not everywhere all at once, it is always in a very limited area of self-existence, and experience, so though one may live feeling connected to all things one should feel like everything. Knowing of oneness with all, is different then thinking one effects all things; there is such a thing as too much responsibility. To simplify one's efforts to be more connected they should maintain a knowledge of oneness subliminally, while living with it as a center of being. Like a fountain, what rushes forth from mind comes from beneath. Society is set up in a hierarchy, a pyramid configuration. It would better if we set up society in a circle pyramid; so as to have equality with monarchy at the same time. Currently, and forever more, the ones on top, exist solely because the one's beneath them contribute to their prestige. Oneness threatens the ego that likes to find personal worth in what it has, rather then personal worth in what one does. The ego, that is disconnected from oneness, may feel the deep desire to pile up things in front of itself so as to feel more worthy, more brilliant then the rest, to prove the self of "higher" value. Truthfully, the only thing the ego needs to survive, is what the body needs to survive, and what the mind needs to be satisfied with out the disconnected desire to consume, and to buy everything in sight. In space there is no such thing as up and down. A down can not exist unless there is an up. Humans over use this kind of thinking here on earth, which is mainly due to our language and the way we communicate with one another, and also due to our traditions and primitive ways of handling our "ways of grouping." Other animals, that are less intelligent then us, function or operate as a species with out social class, or discrimination between the places necessary to have a group. For example geese fly north, in a group, schools of fish cluster together, with no discrimination, but primates have the tendency to form "territorial" domain, and use their skills to out rank other members of the clan, or troop. In unity there is strength, and we need to see how this is true in both other animals, and in our own species. Now there is nothing harmful about judging some one superior based on their skills, or their special abilities, but I think that judging some one based on what they have as in excess to what they need creates unnecessary social supremacy. We need a foundation of equality, from which individualism can grow. Society has been set up even before the early ages of A.D. to give superiority to a LORD, or a ruler. This ruler is given authority over the people, because of the social managing skills that he or she may possess. However, right and well lordship is, and however a necessity authority is (which it is) the lords of the world often forget that their place doesn't exist with out the one's beneath them, and when one thinks themselves an independent entity in the culture they are cutting themselves from the totality that gives them their place, and just abiding in the place. People who use their special abilities, or good fortune to succeed in society, should feel and be taught to feel that the welfare of their species is just if not more important then their own. The reason why I think our current set-up of capitalist run society is crud and rejects oneness is because I have seen and am well aware of the unfair treatment that some are receiving. When we are the one's that print the money, make the jobs, and keep the economy going, not just the high positioned classes, there is no reason why Children should be deprived of education, and deprived of knowledge of how they make society what it is. In oneness we should strengthen our equality both financially to others, and socially to others; if this can be done a new age of prosperity will be lite. Now I am not suggesting any kind of revolution here, or that there be a demand for an alternative economy system, rather I think we should be able to break away from capitalist philosophy, from the old ego, the old mind-set, and find alternatives that can be tested, and expounded upon.
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