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Heaven and hell
Nov. 12th, 2000 10:00 pmHad an interesting philosophical discussion with some friends last night about heaven and hell. They thought that there were 3 planes - here, heaven, and hell - and I suggested that we were actually in hell right now. "This is as bad and as good as it will ever get for us here," I said.
What I meant was something like the following: hell is wherever you're bound by pluralistic desires, pleasure and pain, and the cycle of births and deaths. There's nothing intrinsically "hellish" about it per se, but once you free yourself from the cycle, then heaven _really_ kicks in. Our human experience is just varying degrees of pleasure and pain - as long as we're restricted by our experience of those two opposites, we're basically living in ignorance.
Those words don't feel as profound to me as they once did - they just sound like common sense to me now. They're a mere shadow, the seed, of how Reality is truly expressed.
Keep on walking the razor's edge.
10 min later...
I just re-read severl recent passages in here. I think that sometimes (or much of the time) I take myself and my thoughts too seriously. Something I recently read abotu karma underlines this: karma in everyday life means willful, good action in the light of awareness (of action's place. effect, etc.). There's no need to sit around and overanalyze the situation - all you need to do is to be still and observe everything peacefully. And then make your thoughts, speech and actions a direct reflection of the observance... Without influence - act as an instrument of God, of peace, period, always.
Om shantih.
"Be with I AM all the time you can spare until you revert to it spontaneously. -Nisargadatta
What I meant was something like the following: hell is wherever you're bound by pluralistic desires, pleasure and pain, and the cycle of births and deaths. There's nothing intrinsically "hellish" about it per se, but once you free yourself from the cycle, then heaven _really_ kicks in. Our human experience is just varying degrees of pleasure and pain - as long as we're restricted by our experience of those two opposites, we're basically living in ignorance.
Those words don't feel as profound to me as they once did - they just sound like common sense to me now. They're a mere shadow, the seed, of how Reality is truly expressed.
Keep on walking the razor's edge.
10 min later...
I just re-read severl recent passages in here. I think that sometimes (or much of the time) I take myself and my thoughts too seriously. Something I recently read abotu karma underlines this: karma in everyday life means willful, good action in the light of awareness (of action's place. effect, etc.). There's no need to sit around and overanalyze the situation - all you need to do is to be still and observe everything peacefully. And then make your thoughts, speech and actions a direct reflection of the observance... Without influence - act as an instrument of God, of peace, period, always.
Om shantih.
"Be with I AM all the time you can spare until you revert to it spontaneously. -Nisargadatta
