Coping Strategies

[Unreal Zelta]

Some people turn to a God for answers. I wonder what nature and our own intuition can’t answer that a God would?

Why did he create the universe?

regards

Zelta

[austintorn@aol.com]

Why did he create the universe?

Why did a larger SHE create God?


Coping strategy:

[greenbug]

Why did he create the universe?

He didn't. From one perspective he doesn't exsit. If he does then I'm sure the universe was a supprising accident, not exsactly intentinal.

[melanie]

Hi LW .... just practicing some of my metaphysical studies here.

''Some people turn to a God for answers.''

Though, in fact God is none other than a made-up imaginary concept.

The human is in search for answers to itself,
thru it's own unique strong sense of 'self awareness' that has now become 'self conscious'

Now it wants to find answers to questions.
Why am I here.
Who am I.
How did I get here.
Where am I going.

What the 'SELF' is actually doing when looking for GOD
is, it is trying to find itself within it's own reflection.

We are consciousness looking out at a reflective reality(a projection)
what we see everywhere is not separate from that which is doing the looking.

We are imageless consciousness, only becoming imaged thru seeing our reflection in an-other.
The world becomes our mirror....
If we want to look at our own personal image for instance .. we look in a mirror, and we see a reflection.
A reflection is what we are, everything is 'a mirage....'
because the eye cannot see the eye.
The eye is consciousness.
This is who 'we' are in reality, confusing as that might appear.
We already are what we are looking for which is consciousness.
We might believe we are just the individual body, but the body is the transient vehicle for the ''one self'' to appear in and AS itself.
The body is the temple which the self uses to manifest itself....it does so in myriad of ways.
The body being the expressive form of the many different aspects of the same one self to imprint itself on.

This god, is in all matter, including trees, flowers, mountains and horses and kittens.

The ''real self'' is the unchanging consciousness that is witness to the ever changing 'appearances' of it's same one self one without a second.

So all we are doing when looking for 'god' is looking for ourself.
The self is searching thru itself for itself within it's own dream of separation.
The self has split into the many of itself, likened to a hall of mirrors.
Like the same one seed can grow into and spawn off many more seeds from it's original seed...more of the same.
We see separation everywhere, but that is the illusion, so we begin to search for something that we think is outside ourself.
But outside ourself is only the inside of ourself turned outward..A projection.

Some find the ''real self''
Others never find it.

However,it is always the same one self, that is finding and not finding.
It's a game of hide and seek the self plays with ITself.

The assumed 'entity' develops a hunger to belong, in the dream of separation, until it realizes that both the dream and dreamer are really ONE.

That is when the assumed 'entity' becomes lucid within it's own dream, it wakes up to the dream and realizes that it is ''nothing'' arising as ''everything''

[Unreal Zelta]

He didn't. From one perspective he doesn't exsit. If he does then I'm sure the universe was a supprising accident, not exsactly intentinal.

Maybe he got bored.

regards

Zelta

[labelwench]

The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Ecclesiastes 9:11

-Anonymous

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

When everyone is chasing after the same goal, you are going to have to be very fast, very strong, or very clever to win, preferably all three...

Is there another option? Maybe....

Is there another goal? Yes.

Are they compatible. Usually.

How does one go about addressing the above?

The first step, is to step aside, and quit running in the same direction as everyone else......

While you have the luxury of that interlude, look inside yourself and examine what really matters to you, which may not be the same as you have been pursuing.

Open your eyes and look around at the world from a fresh perspective, you will begin to see opportunities that you had been too occupied to notice previously.....

How to get there? More details soon. The above requires an interlude to be of full value....

[labelwench]

The path least followed, has the benefit of less structure, thereby allowing for greater creativity. By working at the perimeter, yet still within the parameters of the existing rules and regulations that govern our society, there lies much room for opportunity.

These opportunies are not always in the realm of greatest financial return, although that aspect is not precluded.

The greatest opportunity lies in finding a niche that satifsies the physical needs of one's environment, as well as affording satisfaction and room for personal growth, the pursuit of excellence even.

Life is about living, not merely earning one.....

[Unreal Zelta]

The path least followed, has the benefit of less structure, thereby allowing for greater creativity. By working at the perimeter, yet still within the parameters of the existing rules and regulations that govern our society, there lies much room for opportunity.

These opportunies are not always in the realm of greatest financial return, although that aspect is not precluded.

The greatest opportunity lies in finding a niche that satifsies the physical needs of one's environment, as well as affording satisfaction and room for personal growth, the pursuit of excellence even.

Life is about living, not merely earning one.....

I do believe the song Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve reflects your point perfectly.

regards

Zelta

[austintorn@aol.com]

The path least followed

led to

THE FOREST OF ORIGINAL GROWTH

What would it be like to stumble across lands that no one else had ever been to, and how could you know that? After reading Sir Conan Doyle’s ‘Lost World’ about dinosaurs on a sealed off plateau of a volcano, I wondered if there were any more undiscovered places that the paths least followed could lead to.

So, while at the Earth Summit in Rio last month (early May), I forayed into the uncharted regions of Brazil, having chosen from a map the most desolate and remotest area. After various vaccinations and preparations, I trucked my one-man helicopter to the last way station, loaded the extra gas tanks onto it and flew into the heart of darkness, eventually gliding down onto a grassy field just as the gas ran out. From here I walked for tens and tens of miles, always taking the most difficult path whenever there was a choice. This would insure that I could end up in some totally unvisited region that was near impossible or hard-to-get-at in any way.

After several hundred or so of these “improbable” least path choices, I suddenly came across acres and acres of Lady’s Slippers flowers. These are very rare flowers that usually only appeared in small bunches, growing only in conjunction with a rare fungus, and, even, so, usually get picked. But here there were millions of them.

I, then, after taking one last really difficult choice of path, discovered entire fields of other flowers long though to be extinct. Some were Eve’s Blossoms, which not been seen for thousands of years, historically valued for their life extending elixir, as well as the original, lost, strain of Pearly Everlasting, the flower that never dies, and so I suspected that I might be in virgin territory.

How would I know? Well, for one, there were no paths left, for even animals and their hunters had either long left or had never even been here. Also, the flower colors were not like any that I had ever seen before, not new colors, mind you, but, just, well, colors of different intensities and hues that were not thought to exist in nature. I saw true-blue roses, legendary no more.

I had chanced upon a land of strange rainbows of elfin-hued flowers: Red Delphiniums, Black Tulips, Orange Fuchsias, White Marigolds, Bronze grass, Yellow Violets, and even Adam’s Apple, now growing from the ground!

Was this the original forest—the Garden of Eden? Was I the first to return to this legedary paradise? And then I knew that it was the elysium, for there, right in front of me, was a field of thousands of undisturbed golden nuggets on the forest floor. Surely no one had ever been here, at least not for a long, long time.

I reached up and put the apple back on the Tree.

(Apples and oranges growing on the same bush!)

[labelwench]

As we dash in pursuit of the many possibilities that greet us each day, we are often the authors of our own misfortune. Many of us don't even realize the potential for harm that we are risking through the cummulative effect of sleep deprivation.

Certainly, there are times when circumstance may require extra endeavour on our part, and the human body is well adapted for occasional extension of effort, and recovery will follow with adequate rest.

However, many studies have shown that very few people come close to getting optimum rest.

Perhaps the best coping strategy of this millenium, would be to restore some measure of rest to our lives.

Although the process and phases of sleep are fairly well understood, there are still many unknowns regarding the body and brain functions that are surprisingly active during this period of recumbancy.

So, kindly excuse me. It is now time for me to go on "horizontal hold."

Regards,

Labelwench