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Why The Universe Is User-Friendly After All!

"Everything in the universe is a pitcherpresence.
brimming  with  wisdom  and  beauty."
Chit is knowingness. It is complete and total
-Rumi,  13th  Century  Sufi  Poet  and Mysticawareness.
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 saymust accept that reality as we know it is a
no after reviewing all the calamities of yourmassive  hallucination.
own life, the often-vicious response of
governments around the world to perceivedOn the quantum level of reality, particles
threats to their power, the narcissisticare merely dancing in and out of existence.
military and industrial complex thatFurthermore, they are not made of anything.
constitutes what we call civilization, theThey  are  non-things.
awkward and dysfunctional personalities that
you have to deal with daily, the devastationSo, on a literal level, the entire world as
of natural storms, the cruelty of the animalwe know it is as real as the movies we see
kingdom, and the bloody history of ourprojected 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 beliefOn 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 gamebeing; 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.
Our home is in the non-linear dimension. AndThe entire purpose of life is to shed the
we reside there as magnificent beings. Inillusion by awakening our souls to the
fact, we are an expression of an invisiblerealization that we are not victims of the
and invincible force that we call God. Andprojection of our minds. We can, in fact,
this God has three characteristics which arebegin 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 arejourney, 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



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