It was snowing when I got up. We have about an inch of snow on the ground, just in time for the Holidays. I am a little late getting started this morning. I was about an hour late with my chores and I just put my dishes on to soak. I have no idea what I am going to blog about. Hopefully, something will come to me.
Since my last letter, I have been struggling with the idea of belief. I don't admit to believing anything. I want to be a person who accepts things out of knowing. However, "knowing" while living on this earth is largely illusory. What can we really know? We gather enough evidence from repeated experience that we come to expect 'a repetition of events' and thus make conclusions. Is that knowledge? Then there is what we know intuitively. It feels so right, it must be true. That, too, can be supported by experience.
I realize that I accept many things as true when I have no proof. Is that what belief is? One of those things is the idea of ONENESS. It can be expressed as "God is One"; "Mankind is One"; "All are One". You understand the idea. What you do to others you do to yourself etc. etc. The idea and the realization or, perhaps we should say, the experience, are two different things.
Somewhere along my path, through reading, meditation, etc. I came to accept, wholly, this concept. It makes complete sense to me. I have no doubt about its truth. Yet what would I say to a skeptic? The knowing is an internal, intuitive process. I feel like I know it. Have I experienced it? Not completely enough to convince a doubter. In fact sometimes the battle wages inside myself. It is not that I doubt it. It just that when I am in a low place, it seems that the realization of Oneness is a joke.
Yet the concept has tremendous value as an idea for our personal growth and relations with others. Believing that what you do, think, and say to others is what you are doing, saying, and thinking about yourself is a powerful idea. I have long since seen it operate in my life. I see how my judgements of others reflects my feelings about myself. When I attack another person {usually my wife} I can see how I first attacked myself and then out pictured it. We can't tolerate attacking ourselves: the first convenient target will do. It is usually a loved one. We are usually kinder to strangers.
So, you can see how believing "All is One" will improve all our relationships; whether they be personal, international, business or what have you.
Oneness as applied to the Earth and all its creatures is a concept that, I hope, all will soon embrace. Can you imagine the change that will occur when we treat the Earth and all its denizens the way we want to be treated? Think of the Earth as a living thing; a wholeness with a consciousness like ours. Imagine this consciousness communicates as we do. Our bodies are part of the Earth as the trees and grasses are. In some way, all beings belonging to the Earth must be, now, in communication with each other. We just need to listen.
I guess I do experience "Oneness" as truth. More on this later. I have got to wash my dishes. Have a Happy Holiday! A Merry Christmas! Or a Happy Festivus [Seinfeld]
I plan a short blog on Christmas Eve or Christmas.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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