🌌 Rambling into the Past to Understand the Now
9 October 2013
Welcome to the landscape of my soul.
Far deep within the heart of hearts sits the Hall of the Divine Light.
Deeper still: the Divine Spark.
The Source. The Zat. The Essence.
That which is the core of your energy, your wisdom, your humanity.
It belongs to the One of all sources—the Lord of Creation.
Call Him by what name you may, but accept that it is only the One.
This I realized this morning, after filling up my gas tank and adding air to one of my Kancil tyres—which seems to be threatening to give up on me. Driving here was an adventure, as always. But I breathed in and out like I always do, and stuck to my familiar track. No theatrics, just arriving.
My daughter lies in bed, not feeling well—more like lovesick, if you ask me. She refuses to go to the clinic. Not that I blame her. Getting there can make you sick in itself.
But maybe, just maybe, this is what the doctor would order: lay back, take it easy, be lazy. You’ve earned it. You need this rest after your last semester.
Be at home. Be with your dad and your brother. Do as thou will.
🔥 The Five Elements: The First Law of Humanity
We are all made of the four elements: Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire.
Any child can tell you this today.
Scientists will take you all the way down to the sub-particle level to show we are made of the same substance, all held together by the laws of gravity. Not knowing this doesn’t exempt you from it.
And the most basic understanding of our human origin is this:
“Know Thyself.”
This is the fifth element. The one who governs the other four.
This is the CEO of the human enterprise—the consciousness within the form.
If we had the right understanding of who we truly are, we wouldn’t take life for granted. We wouldn’t let the value of a man be reduced to the price of a bullet.
Today, it doesn’t matter under what flag we hide.
We can obliterate a village with a drone.
But mankind is doomed to ignorance—unless we become enlightened and spread the light.
Even a minuscule spark of Divine wisdom, sent out, is like an atom hurled into space.
It carries energy. It is Consciousness.
It attracts thought and form to itself.
It becomes you and me.
🌍 Collective Knowledge, Collective Blindness
These days, no source of knowledge is more potent than National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. From Ulu Terengganu villagers to Wall Street savants, everyone learns by watching them. These channels are the library of our collective knowledge—no politics, no agenda. Just documentation. A relationship between humanity and the planet.
Yet we continue to serve symbols rather than practice the truths they point toward.
The logos are tools—not the machine.
To transcend symbols and mind-made belief systems with skill and clarity is the Second Law of Humanity. Upadaya, skillful means, with bare attention and complete awareness.
As they say in Zen:
"If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him!"
Not in hatred—but to go beyond the image.
To make the mind an open conduit for something greater than thought.
To make space for another soul to take shelter within your heart—that is Compassion.
My friend David Lueck of the San Francisco Zen Center once said:
"Make available that small space within your heart for someone else to seek shelter in."
And if you have to suffer, you can suffer without bitterness in your heart, as my friend Dr Peter Oyimbo used to say.
⚔️ Abraham, Jesus, and the First Commandment
The Lord said to Abraham, "Kill me a son!"
Abe said, "No."
God said, "What? Then when you see Me coming, you better run!"
Some say Abraham tried to sacrifice Ishmael. Others say Isaac.
Was it the son of the Egyptian slave, or the Jewish wife who bore a child in old age?
Which version do we follow?
From this twist in a story, humanity became split: Muslims and Jews tearing at one another’s throats in the name of the One God.
Some say Jesus was crucified.
Others say God saved him.
The rest are details.
Look them up.
Come to your own understanding.
There is no truth. There is only that which Is.
🩸 Ignorance and Karma
In Myanmar. In Southern Thailand.
Buddhists and Muslims continue killing each other.
But the issues are never really about religion. Religion just becomes the cover.
It’s not about hate. It’s not even about greed anymore.
It is pure ignorance.
We are part of one network of consciousness.
One web of interdependence.
How can we be happy while a single soul cries in pain?
How can life be sacred when a man is worth the cost of a bullet?
How can the wielder of the weapon claim compassion when he has forgotten the First Commandment?
Thou Shalt Not Kill.
The Buddha said: Watch your step, lest you crush an ant and return as one.
The Law of Manu.
The Law of Moses.
The First Utterance of Allah to mankind.
This was the voice from the mountain. The voice of Allah transforming Moses into consciousness incarnate.
But even as Moses was transformed… mankind remained ignorant.
🧘🏽 How Do We Break the Game?
The Buddha spoke in parables—to warn us about karma.
Do unto others... and you can count on the payback.
The Law of Cause and Effect.
But how do we step out of this game of consequences?
How do we avoid the pull of illusion, the veil of Maya?
Faith is not blind belief.
It is surrender.
It is flowing with the Whole, the One, the All.
When we cease to be attached to forms, to names, to identity—we begin to awaken.
Until then, we remain trapped in illusion, ignorance, and suffering.
📿 Avadhuta Gita – Chapter I (Excerpts)
“I alone am, ever free from all taint. The world exists like a mirage within me.
To whom shall I bow?”
“This is the whole substance of Vedanta… I am the Atman, by nature impersonal and all-pervasive.”
“The mind is as space, embracing all. I am beyond mind.
In Reality, the mind has no independent existence.”
“How can there be two?
And when I am no more…”
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