Infinite SIZE - Part 2

Dear Readers,

I'm thinking that it's time to spend some more time figuring out the world of Blogging.  If anyone has any creative ideas for me, I welcome them!  I'd like to develop a blog that reflects the SIZE of what it is we're talking about here, which is the size of what one actually is.  You, I mean.  What you are and the presently here billions of endless galaxies cannot be "two."  It's impossible.

So that's what I'll be writing about more and more.  Mostly because my Teacher thinks I should.  But also partly because I see very little out there in the way of the written word that communicates what the Dharma of Today is truly about.  

The Dharma of Today has nothing to do with yesterday.  It has nothing to do with traditions or sutras, fancy robes or pointy hats.  Stephen Hawking has said something to the effect of: "We don't need spirituality anymore.  We have facts."  So you could say that the Dharma or Spirituality of Today is simply about this.  Facts.  If you don't base your spiritual life in facts, what value could it possibly have?

So let's start with the fact that the universe is infinite.  The fact is we now have the Hubble and our own (in Canada) Chris Hadfield, taking pictures in every conceivable direction and confirming that there is no beginning or ending to this incredible majestic mind-blowing Moment.  Science is becoming our greatest ally in our conscious surrender to the magic that's spinning our own trillions of cells, the same magic that's breathing us and digesting our food and thinking our thoughts and doing all the other things that make up the "me" package.  It's the same magic that has the capacity to perceive "me" as a separate thing, a perceptual twist generated by the Magic Itself.  So if you look at any photo of the galaxies you can simply realize: "I am actually this big (!), never limited by my conception of myself as a discreet entity."

We didn't have these aids a couple of thousand years ago when people like Jesus and the Buddha were telling us "Everything is True Nature" and "The Kingdom of Heaven is Within."  Unfortunately, out of Jesus' teachings we somehow got the concept of original sin, and out of the Buddha's teachings we got "life is suffering."  A lot of persuasive black magic got thrown in over these years of religious fervor, and now you can check out the planet to see the results in humanity's behaviour.  As it stands, we're the only species that doesn't act normal and natural on this precious life-bearing orb we inhabit.

If you look at yourself though a telescope or microscope, where is original sin?  Where is suffering?  In actual fact, Life Itself is free of all this.  Sin is a ridiculous, small concept of the thinking mind, and suffering is the consequence.  And this "karma"—the whole hamster wheel of sin and suffering—is happening only inside the human animal's brain, which tragically hasn't learned to check out a photo from the Hubble and apply what it sees to the fact of what the word "I" refers to.  It hasn't been presented with an image like the one below and contemplated on it for a few seconds.  If it did, everything would become instantly "normal" again.

In this Here-Now Moment, the word "I" is said by the universe—to, for and by Itself.  That's it.  When an astronomer looks through a telescope, this is all he or she is studying.  When a biologist or a farmer-gardener digs into the dirt, this is all she or he is nurturing.  When a meditator sits, this is all this person needs to remember.

And it never ends, you see.  The Infinite is the Infinite.  I Am This.  We can "look" at This forever.

The SIZE of the Moment cannot be imagined by the thinking mind, which is why we confirm what we are by being still... by keeping quiet.

BE STILL is the Dharma of Every Day.  This is the biggest possible concept.  The simplest.  It leads to the recognition that no concept can ever in any way alter what you are.  And through it, the entire Cosmos effortlessly flows.