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August 2008 
Gravity.
Posted on Jun 8th, 2006
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sarva
sarva
I hate gravity. Wise people encourage me to stay grounded, but I resist. So, I consider what the meaning of this advice may be, considering that I may be unwise in craving flight.
Granted, I may be a bit of a Word Head, but when I consider this word, grounded, none of the meanings I'm famaliar with are good. When I was a child, my parents grounded me. An injured bird would be considered grounded, presumably not to live long. If a person working with electricity is grounded, the current could pass through her, possibly across her heart and possibly killing her.
The most obvious meaning for the advice stay grounded is: stay rooted in reality, not devoted to flights of fantasy. And this advice is good, but only as good as the concepts driving the precepts of the advisor. If her reality is funky, so is the advice. And, I haven't even stated what I think is most obvious. No human, not even wise a teacher has known reality (with the possible exception of very select, disciplined, clear-eyed rishis of thousands of years ago). We only have sensory representations of a narrow range of the cosmos bouncing around in a skull full of who-knows-what and only relating to "experience" of a very narrow range of the entire cosmos.
Now, I've come to understand that quantum gravity may be important in maintaining consciousness, experience and calculations within our embodied senses and mentality. I realize this may seem unlikely, but it is not particularily surprizing to me. The details are beyond the purpose of this blog entry. [I can direct interested people to sources for this theory]. Suffice it to say that quantum physics are proving promising in developing a theory of consciousness that transcends the Meathead idea that consciousness is merely a product of our material, electrochemical internal environments. Impossible! I would sooner say "clothes make the man."
My goal lies beyond. I am not satisfied, suffocating. Grounded. I don't mean to bring you down.
Granted, I may be a bit of a Word Head, but when I consider this word, grounded, none of the meanings I'm famaliar with are good. When I was a child, my parents grounded me. An injured bird would be considered grounded, presumably not to live long. If a person working with electricity is grounded, the current could pass through her, possibly across her heart and possibly killing her.
The most obvious meaning for the advice stay grounded is: stay rooted in reality, not devoted to flights of fantasy. And this advice is good, but only as good as the concepts driving the precepts of the advisor. If her reality is funky, so is the advice. And, I haven't even stated what I think is most obvious. No human, not even wise a teacher has known reality (with the possible exception of very select, disciplined, clear-eyed rishis of thousands of years ago). We only have sensory representations of a narrow range of the cosmos bouncing around in a skull full of who-knows-what and only relating to "experience" of a very narrow range of the entire cosmos.
Now, I've come to understand that quantum gravity may be important in maintaining consciousness, experience and calculations within our embodied senses and mentality. I realize this may seem unlikely, but it is not particularily surprizing to me. The details are beyond the purpose of this blog entry. [I can direct interested people to sources for this theory]. Suffice it to say that quantum physics are proving promising in developing a theory of consciousness that transcends the Meathead idea that consciousness is merely a product of our material, electrochemical internal environments. Impossible! I would sooner say "clothes make the man."
My goal lies beyond. I am not satisfied, suffocating. Grounded. I don't mean to bring you down.
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Interesting observations… I prefer the Ground of Being! ;)
Then we're on common ground, Matt. I try not to confuse that ground with the material world, which is very minimal with regard to deeper being. Matter is virtually all empty space. If a neculeus was the size of the Sun, the electron, (which is not a billiard-ball like particle, but better thought of as a cloud of potential) would most likely be in the viscinity of the Earth. That is, if it was in the first electron shell.
Our age-of-enlightment mentality with regards to matter is outdated. Material particles arise from and dissolve back into apparently space at a prodigious rate, all around us, all the time.
Being is rooted in non-being, and from non-being, being arises.
wha'd'ya think?
Being is rooted in non-being, and from non-being, being arises.
I agree. My statement, in referring to the “Ground of Being,” was pointing to that which being and non-being co-arise within.
Namaste!
An interesting approach to the problem you've chosen. But “i” wonder, what in the world, dear friend can you mean by “within?” I ask you, within what?
And if being and non-being arise within it, what lies beyond? What else is there?
I've not actually chosen a “problem.” I was just pointing. But you're right… I should have said “within and as.“ Good point.
ok… clarification: i meant you had chosen not a problem, but an interesting approach to it. the problem is (abundantly) clear.
i should have said: you've chosen an interesting approach to the problem (poor use of language on my part).
confused: in what issue am I “right?”
bewildered: if being and non-being arising “within” something is not clear, how can being and non-being “within and as” something (other-than???) possibly be clear.
“within and as” what???
What can being and non-being possibly arise “within and as???”
LOL! GREAT question!!
the answer must be obvious, and i'm missing it.
Alright let me use the boring example of a canvas = Ground of Being. The canvas is infinite. Let's say that Life is a painting, and that the painting always changes… moves… sometimes theres paint in one spot, sometimes no paint in that spot. Painting = Being = Manifest. Where there is no paint = non-Being = unmanifest. But it's all arising within and as the infinite canvas.
I apologize for taking your blog in a direction you may not have intended.
not to worry… we could be talking about cartoons, and it might be the best insight available, depending on context.
your analogy is an interesting one, a paiting is a 2-D surface mimicking a 3-D field, perhaps… an infinite regression, nonetheless. how would use music in a similar analogy? What is unstruck sound, the sound of one hand?
as i'm writing this, i'm watching Ren and Stimpy… Stimpy slapped Ren with a firmly affixed Happy Helmet, (patent pending) with which he could control Ren's happiness by remote control. Ren was ecstatic, which made him feel out of control. he liberated himself for freedom's sake. then, he was free to feel furious! this made him happy again. his insight? he enjoyed being angry. he was bound by illusion, either way. where does happiness lie?
gravity sux, but i can be glad it's weak. a dime-store magnet easily ovecomes the gravitational attraction of the mass of the whole earth.
the center cannot hold. matter is utter darkness, mind a cage, life a maze in which we are lost and bewildered. the center can't hold. being is not like that. it doesn't entrap us. the problem is, even our best friends will generally lead us to believe it does, believing their telling us what is for our own good.
i will awake. when i do, it will seem this being has been exactly like a dream, not being at all - a painting of an illusion.