Contraction: Resolution in Spiritual Conflict

            I have long said, "Taoism is the easiest philosophy to learn and understand, but it's the hardest to explain." This is because of the clarity of self contradiction. Shadow and light, black and white, and don't forget about our tight little gravity and that endless vacuum of luminous space. Open and closed, opposition and unity, all are within the domain of a universe contracting into joyous moments with no beginning and no end. We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time, and there is no time. "The self is Ubiquitous," as from the Upanishads. 

            In spiritual dialectics, we find that the central mean is the boundary of definition between all sacred opposites. All are defined by differences, and in all of our distinctions we can find ourselves. Exclusion as a social construct is a dangerous illusion. And thus, clarity burns! In the binary of human logic boundaries are functional, but only when imaginary. And in the imagination resides our mind's eye, like a Camera Obscura. The glow of awareness informs and illuminates the world, while the heart sings sweet poetry to the loving belly absorbed in memory. In Taoism all exists, until it is gone. And everything recedes back into the nothing. "AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!"   {7th axiomatic rule of the Para Psychological Method}

            We live in this, the most improbable of all possible universes. "And from the many, we learn as one." Everything exists within boundless possibilities. Contradictions contract on the immediate surface of summation, that we call the now. {{{ Tao? }}} The only thing that ever happens, does so in preparation for a possibility of an inevitable future. "Do not suffer the unnecessary proliferation of entities." Occam's Razor. In other words simplicity isn't just best, it's probably also the only truth.  Complexity doesn't have to be the same thing as unnecessary complications. {I offer a little rhetoric here to illustrate my clumsy reduction.} Healthy creative chaos doesn't have to be random or destructive at all. In the tao, "Opposition" is the gateway to unity. "I CHING" Hexagram #38 (Please don't hurt me.)

            As I've repeatedly said, "It's easy to learn, but impossible to explain." Here's my foolish proof. Good luck with life, love, and living. And know that I too, love you. Peace.

And From the Many We Learn as one

                                                     Intimacy is the final frontier.                                                                                     

                 As we get closer to intimacy, our sense of boundaries change. Learning is an intimacy, and intimacy is learning. Unity and empathy are mutually unexplored territories in everyone & everything.

My apology. Dreams are just creative imaginary projections. In Zazen, dreams, just like thoughts, are simply considered deviations of awareness away from the moment now. {Blah, blah? Neti, neti?} When it comes to creative fantasy and imagination, I guess I didn't have much choice. Transcendent dreams lived in me. That Nada is the dream chakra, and is also known for the Raja Path to enlightenment. I am no more than an other centered person with very few goals or ambitions. And yet I have lived fully, despite personal solitude. Dreams are like our karma, personal and/or collective. I myself may be petty and judgemental, but our emotions are merely those responsive waves on the surface of that momentary summation, now. Feelings and awareness ebb and flow like that momentary being, ours is one into another. My dreams are now public property. Come drink, there are dreams enough to nourish and inspire all, carrying us across the great waters into our collective eternity.