A path is a path

[dfift]

We are born and thus our path through life begins. But what path is it that we should follow?
We find ourselves here and have no option but to let events randomly take their course until such a time as we feel educated enough to perhaps change that course. Some decide that the pathway chosen for them since birth is indeed the right path for them. Others find that maybe there is another that meets their needs. There are those in fact that change their course many times through a lifetime. But to what end?
It matters not what your beliefs may be or what path you follow, the sum total of your experience ultimately leads to your passing. To what is another question. You don't know for sure until you get there. But whatever lies beyond the fragility of our short existence one thing is for sure- life is the pathway. It is THE experience.
There was a time of course when mankind did indeed live on instinct. It was merely a question of survival. There was no questioning, no real conscious thought just an instinctual reaction to physical stimuli. The sole purpose and meaning of life was to continue its existence.
But now we live in a time when conscious thought can be afforded. We have rare occasion to rely on our instinct and therefore have the time to observe our surroundings. We ponder on our existence within it, philosiphize on its meaning, question its validity. Confusion reigns.
In the absence of definitive answers we turn to others and sure enough there are those that seem to have a deeper understanding than ourselves. They offer guidance and tuition and sure enough it all seems so much clearer -my life now has meaning and purpose.
It always did.
Whatever pathway we choose or have chosen for us, whether we hope for something more(or less) when we come to its end, whether we deny its existence or question its foundations, whether we embrace it, shy from it, seek guidance or understanding for it, it matters not.
We are merely lethargic predators seeking to achieve what we always have since the dawn of our conception. How we do it is just a question for our conscious minds to ponder on. All pathways lead to the same conclusion.
A path is just a path.
Life is the experience.
Make of it what you will.

[jufa]

]The Metaphorical Mystery of Playing The Game of Life


There is no definition of God to be had by any mind based in the non-reality of matter because God is a mystery, and that mystery is a metaphor which cannot be acted out because its outline definition and inner body is a mystery. The mysterious metaphor which cannot be interpretation by the human mind is unknown because regardless whether a definition of life, consciousness, God, or even thought is presented, the one determining the definition is themselves a mysterious metaphor living within the mystery of that which they have no definition of for themselves. Thus, they can only live the metaphor and play the game of living within the bounds of the mysterious mystery of the metaphor until the metaphor becomes known. When the unknown becomes known, then the veil which separates the illusion of the visible from the invisible is given definition, by clarity, to the vision of the Spirit of the Self which has dissolved the metaphor .

If God is not a mystery, what then is God? Is God the wind, the fire, the rain, the earth? If so, then what are these elements in comprehensible form which will provide exact meaning to me and all of mankind? Is God a person? then where can my outer object vision acquire His/Her/Its definition to feed my inner subject feeling so that my senses can become aware of His/Her/Its presence and activity within my living moment to moment to moment to moment? And what metaphorical situation offers a form of understanding, when all a man's understanding is based in the knowledge of
his belief in a tree of dualism?

No man knows what life is. What man knows is his experience of living and playing the game of life within the arch of life. Does this not represent life does not move, and therefore applies no conditions to living within its borders. Does this also point out Consciousness does not move, for as life, there is no place for Consciousness to move to where It does not exist. Thoughts also do not move if what I have stated above is true. So what is it that causes the cause and effect of man's situations, circumstances, and conditions to appear to move from here to there? If any man is true to the analysis of answering this question, he has to concede it is his retaining of the breath of life in the material world, which cause him to become aware, and therefore cognizant, and thus, give meaning to his living within the borders of life according to his outer objective visions, and inner subjective feelings. So all moods, attitudes, expectations, hopes, reaching for his interpreted ideas, and concepts become his worlds and universe according to the life he put into the interpretations of his thoughts, which do not move, but only make one aware of that which is retained within his soul. This is called discovery of what has always been.

Life does not plays games with mankind. It is mankind playing with him self because of what he has discovered and concluded to be the game of life being played upon Him, even though he does not know the beginning, middle, nor end results of the game So how can man classified the events of living within life to be a game being played upon him, or him self playing the game of life?. To interpret life as game playing in either event, is to say that one is required to do something to advance or retreat in participating in the game because "the law of the Spirit of life" is not equal in length, height, and width, and shows favoritism, when it is man himself who manipulates and is manipulated by his thought interpretations concerning the position of life he has discovered himself to be stabilized within because of his thought conclusions.

What man awakens to this reality, he will comprehension God is the singularity of life which he cannot comprehend because Life is a mystery represented by a metaphor of living, which living is a mystery because there is no logic the human mind can display as to why existence is. One can't say, in all honesty, but I feel this God because feelings are an effect of living life, which means life is the cause. But the cause is illogical to the human mind because the mystery reached for by the human mind is based on the definition of its sense of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, thinking, and those thoughts which cannot enter the imprisonment of its bounds, because the human mind live, and moves, and has it being in that which it cannot comprehend is its living source.

There is no question about what is reality. Man is reality for is the invisible life he lives within by thought first, and his outer objective visions, and inner subjective feelings second. So the true question which should always be of utmost important to man is why am I aware of something which has no meaning except the meaning I give it? This question should then prompt the question, can I give meaning to this life I am when I do not know who I am because life is a mysterious metaphor which is fragments by my interpretations?

Man have shattered the true meaning and definition of himself by interpreting that which cannot be interpreted. Man can never see, the whole, perfect, complete, and pure Self of him self then, because he has shattered the understanding of who he is into bits and pieces. Life is no respector of person. Life give of itself to all unconditionally. All conditions, situation, circumstance, and even ones environment are predicated upon thought interpretation which return not void to the thinker.

[dfift]

Exactly!:think:

[floydk]

Exactly!:think:

Then in order to play the game of life one must accept the fact that his/her fate is pre determined or can he/she alter the course of there life from beginning to end. All in all in order to have a God of mystery one must have blind faith.

[dfift]

Then in order to play the game of life one must accept the fact that his/her fate is pre determined or can he/she alter the course of there life from beginning to end. All in all in order to have a God of mystery one must have blind faith.

If I ask the question; Can you show me the one true path? A myriad of possibilities would be shown to me. The possibilities are innumerable, but they are all possibilities born of conscious thought. Any faith is blind.

[brother alan]

All in all in order to have a God of mystery one must have blind faith.
Blind, eh? Aren't you claiming that a blind, incoherent universe has produced the sight you claim is better than blindness? Prove it! But don't use logic, because logic is a sick joke in a blind chaos.
The only logical conclusion to "objective" rationalism's line of reasoning is to deny the existence of reason and reasoner together. Fine by me; in a universe where even stars grow old and die, cowardice is absolutely the funniest thing possible.

[kowtaaia]

... cowardice is absolutely the funniest thing possible.

Belief in a sky daddy trumps that.

[jufa]

Living in this world, regardless if one is a christian, buddhist, atheist, theist, etc, requires blind faith because there is no definitive exactness to be found between here and there defining faith except in ones imagination. What one thinks what should be faith is imagined based on that which they have interpreted from that which they have learned, which identifies faith to be no different than hope. "Hope that is seen is not hope, for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for it."

Allow me to illustrate. To drive any highway, street, or avenue and believe you will not incur a drunk driver, carjacker, someone running a red light and crashing into you, or your running over obstacles in the roadway which will disable your vehicle are acts of blind faith. Living by faith, therefore, is not the true issue here, it is a throw off and deals not with the subject matter.

So lets take this a step further. Belief or non-belief in God does not dictate the living of life. Nor will mankind's suffering and struggles desist by adopting, or rejecting a religious belief, declaring devotionto a cult, theism, atheism, or any religious order, because life and religion are as water and oil, they repel one another.

And to go even further, there can be no such thing as a person having a personal relationship with a metaphor. If this was to occur, there would be no need for faith. If one had a personal relationship with God, or Christ, or The Blessed One, all they would need to do when situations, circumstances, conditions are needed to remedy whatever it is, is to called upon their personal genie, and presto, all is well, is this not correct?

All faith is blind, and it is blind because that which one is seeking to overcome or provide for them cannot be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled based on outer objectives vision, and inner subjective feelings.

[bito]

jufa, are you saying that we don't know nothin' and that we don't know that we don't know nuthin'?

[jufa]

jufa, are you saying that we don't know nothin' and that we don't know that we don't know nuthin'?

Bito, Sho u right