Karma and Dharma

Dharma is the macro flux of inevitability; of which our small portion is Karma.

It has always seemed to me that the difference between "the big bang" and "let there be light" is the difference between poetry and prose. It is remarkable that thousands of years ago meditating individuals arrived at what could be called a "unified field theory". If we let Dharma be considered as a theory of everything, it is quite comfortable with physics, psychology, economics, politics, and the ecological sciences.

There does not seem to be a corresponding theory in modern physics concerning the nature of awareness.

The Care and Feeding of the Inevitable

if you have to ask

don't mess with it

after all

every thing happens by accident

The Children and the Doors of Perception

Happiness, sorrow, joy, rage, hate, love, compassion, disdain: are inner states that spontaneously arise in response to perceived relationships of self to outer world. Any impetus is reduced to a sharply limited repertoire of instinctual responses. In the same manner as red blue and yellow are the substrate of the plethora of color we see before us, a very few symbolic representations are responsible for the seemingly infinite variety of our inner experience. We can no more determine the way we will "feel" about something than we can choose the taste of food in our mouths. And in the same way we manipulate the taste of food with a spice of choice, we manipulate our feelings by draping ideas over experience to reconfigure "meaning".

This again brings us to the inestimable value of meditation. If our awareness can not not-think we have no way of recognizing our imaginary thumb on the scale of our perceptions, and therefore our tasting of the world will always be colored by predispositions that are invisible to us.

Meditation can cleanse the doors of perception: free us from what we have become, and see the children of the earth reborn as the children of the universe.

Indolence

indolence of which one is aware

and indolence of which we are not aware

are poles apart

Grandfather Trees, Chain Saws, Dozers: and Happy Endings

Aboriginal cultures often have aspects of their norm which translate as "grand-father-tree". A real grandfather-tree is that tree that had the big tree thing going a thousand years before your grand father was conceived. Your people are the people of the tree??......oh...the movie... . But if you haven't seen the movie even better, because without the story line we see just the exploitation of impotent-fact-people by omnipotent-fact-people: and the only difference between them is modernity and money. The difference between power and the powerless is these days measured in fiat currency.

Humanity as being must enter into symbiosis: eschew parasitism, elitism, envy, enmity; and with forethought and knowledge enter into husbandry of life on earth.

Otherwise

We're doomed

Caesar's Lies

render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's