[austintorn@aol.com]

Profundity appears here and there, between the lines, as in all threads.

To all who read, the story, please send me your driver's licenses so I can alter them to take 10 years off of your age, as promised.

I was out walking the other night, then sitting at a high view point—and there it was in the distance, all lit up with a millions candle watts: Greenhaven maximum security prison.

Once I fooled someone into thinking it was a hotel, telling them about the free food, that they even open and close the door to your room for you, that the rent is free and so on.

I drove them up to the front door as they remarked that there were no windows, then they realized and said, "Austin, get me out of here! I'm going to kill you!"

[~boots~]

back to work after holidays...no time any more to worry about and idea that becomes a cosmos....
no idea what a cosmos even is

what *is* a cosmos?
(in 5 words or less..in point form) (please )

[Drifter]

Originally Posted by ~boots~

back to work after holidays...no time any more to worry about and idea that becomes a cosmos....
no idea what a cosmos even is

what *is* a cosmos?
(in 5 words or less..in point form) (please )

"Everything"; e.g. A Cosmology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Cosmos

http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2059

[Drifter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exce..._of_Everything

"I am the consumate artist.
I draw upon my imagination." ~Dr. Albert Einstein

[Drifter]

Earthly life

“Beings are such that their beginnings are unmanifest, their middles are manifest, and their ends are unmanifest again. What complaint [lamentation] can there be over this?” (2:2

Like the hillbilly we either do not know the truth about this evanescent life of earthly incarnation or we refuse to face it. Our appearances on this earth are but a part of our life history. For aeons beyond number we never came into material manifestation at all. Then we began doing so, like actors entering a theater and moving over the stage in a brief play and then leaving to return home until the next performance. Not only are our “appearances” but a fraction of our relative existence, they are fundamentally unreal.

As Krishna implies, life on this earth is completely unnatural for us. It is natural to be out of the body, not in it. Yet we irrationally cling to it and to our memories of it, even trying to make each life duplicate the one before it, not even wanting the drama to develop, to evolve. And we insanely identify with the ever-changing temporary states, totally forgetting the unchanging eternal state that is the only thing real about us.

Many metaphysically-mind people begin heaping up even more folly through striving to remember their past lives and attributing full reality to them. Rare are those who utilize the memory of past lives to illuminate the problems of the present life so that they all can be let go of in order to pass on to higher life beyond any births.

All our “lives” are really deaths–descent into the worlds of change and decay, dreams caused by the fever of samsara, a disease whose cure we must vigorously seek and even more vigorously apply. Only when we come to know that we have never been born and have never died will we have peace and the cessation of sorrow.

Related articles:

Birth and Death–The Great Illusions
The Great Benefit of Looking Toward Life’s End
The Real Pursuit of Happiness

[Drifter]

http://blog.atmajyoti.org/2008/08/bi...eat-illusions/

http://blog.atmajyoti.org/2008/05/th...ard-lifes-end/

http://blog.atmajyoti.org/2008/03/th...-of-happiness/

[mkirkpatrick]

An absolute idea encapsulated within Absolute will,became,
and is a cosmos,we should know,we live in it!




regards michael.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Michael, I only work in space; my home is in New York.

[racecar]

That is whole, this is whole
From the whole, the whole is subtracted
When the whole is taken from the whole
The whole still will remain — Isha Upanishad.

[austintorn@aol.com]

The whole of energy transforms,
And so is never the less;
Some forms like protons appear stable
But who knows, they may change someday.

Of infinite energy, if there is
It would be pretty crowded here;
But if there were, some of it could die
And all would still of endless infinity.