| "Everything in the universe is a pitcher | | | | presence. |
| brimming with wisdom and beauty." | | | | |
| | | | Chit is knowingness. It is complete and total |
| -Rumi, 13th Century Sufi Poet and Mystic | | | | awareness. |
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| Is the universe friendly? | | | | Ananda is bliss. It is utter and indefinable |
| | | | peace and joy. |
| On the surface this seems an absurd | | | | |
| statement. | | | | This is who we are in our essence. And |
| | | | because we are this at a non-dual level, we |
| Looking deeper, your response might be to say | | | | must accept that reality as we know it is a |
| no after reviewing all the calamities of your | | | | massive hallucination. |
| own life, the often-vicious response of | | | | |
| governments around the world to perceived | | | | On the quantum level of reality, particles |
| threats to their power, the narcissistic | | | | are merely dancing in and out of existence. |
| military and industrial complex that | | | | Furthermore, they are not made of anything. |
| constitutes what we call civilization, the | | | | They are non-things. |
| awkward and dysfunctional personalities that | | | | |
| you have to deal with daily, the devastation | | | | So, on a literal level, the entire world as |
| of natural storms, the cruelty of the animal | | | | we know it is as real as the movies we see |
| kingdom, and the bloody history of our | | | | projected on a screen, which as we all know |
| species. | | | | is nothing but a dance of light in various |
| | | | shades. |
| Yet despite chaos, horror, and the imminent | | | | |
| possibility of terror, I hold to the belief | | | | On the cosmic level of reality, we are |
| that the universe is friendly. | | | | spiritual beings having a human experience. |
| | | | We are literally dreaming the world into |
| It is friendly because we are not this game | | | | being; projecting it from the thoughts and |
| of chance that we see all around us. | | | | feelings we have about it. Remove your mind |
| | | | from the world and the world itself collapses |
| We are, in fact, not victims of linear time. | | | | into nothingness. |
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| Our home is in the non-linear dimension. And | | | | The entire purpose of life is to shed the |
| we reside there as magnificent beings. In | | | | illusion by awakening our souls to the |
| fact, we are an expression of an invisible | | | | realization that we are not victims of the |
| and invincible force that we call God. And | | | | projection of our minds. We can, in fact, |
| this God has three characteristics which are | | | | begin the spiritual journey at any time to |
| our own. | | | | extricate ourselves from the illusions that |
| | | | make us so unhappy. Somewhere along that |
| In Sanskrit, the three characteristics are | | | | journey, the veil of matter will fall. It is |
| known as "sat-chit-ananda." | | | | then that you will realize that the universe |
| | | | is friendly after all. |
| Sat is beingness. It is pure and absolute | | | | |