Events: responsibility, fault, pleasure, suffering, connectedness

Nothing happens on its own.  Every event requires the participation of the entire universe.  Even the reading of this post is precipitated by your particular interests, inspired by your life experiences, which are created in the context of a family, society, and world.  If the temperature of the world was just a little hotter or cooler, humans wouldn't be here.  The arrangements of the planets allows you to drink your morning tea.  All the universe is required for your every moment.

No actor is the singular cause of anything.  It is easy to believe that I choose and I act, sovereignly producing the result.  But the understanding of the process, the energy to carry it out, the opportunity to do it, and the possibility of its completion, all come from sources other than the human self.  Only the will to do it belongs to the human being. So, no experienced event is your sole fault or praise.

Humans participate in events and evaluate their experiences of those events, causing every kind of feeling and emotion, pleasure and suffering.

The mind chooses a desired outcome and takes action it believes will produce it.  When the desired outcome occurs, it is happy; when the desired outcome does not occur, the mind is unhappy.  So it is because of the mind that any event causes pleasure or suffering.

So do your work with sincerity and accept events with equanimity.

There is no one, no thing which says, "I am God".  There simply is no one who answers to that name.  Thus, the allness, having no name, cannot be petitioned or addressed.  One cannot say, "God, what do you want", or "God, what should I do", because there is no one who says, "Oh, he's talking to me".    The way to know to truth is to "be still, and know that I AM god"

Way, Truth, and Life

When Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me", was he speaking as "the word"?  Could this have been a statement made from the perspective of oneness, as opposed to as the person of Jesus of Nazareth?  What if what he was saying was that one could only come to the father via oneness with the Word?

Freedom

What is freedom?  My gut reaction is that freedom is the absence of external forces which compel.  Which makes me consider what "external" means.

Are our attachments really ours?  Do we possess them, or do they possess us?

Love

Could love be the state of removal of all boundaries?  What if, to say you love someone, is to say that you have removed all personal boundaries from your relationship with them?

What is it then to say that one loves the world?  If one lives without personal boundaries, have not all attachments ceased?  Has one not achieved Buddhahood, enlightenment, the state of Open Mind?

Thought

To think is to create.  When one thinks on limitedness, one limits oneself by creating limitation.

Oneness

When all of one's boundaries are removed, one experiences oneness.

Self is not lost, but because all boundaries have ceased, oneness is experienced.