Metaphysical Mumblings

God is a collective noun. What if god are intellegient beings from another galaxy? Stop. Think. We are but actors in a stage, but our destinies are not controlled by some all powerful being sitting in his/her golden throne who sends his son for a sojourn here once in a while. We have our choices on all things (like what soap to buy), in fact we also have the power to decide what happens after we die. You can stop reading right now or you will have to read this entire post before calling for the men in white coats to fix me in arm and leg restraints.

Buddha, Mahavira, Vivekananda and a host of other enlightened creatures have said that the ultimate aim of humans is to stop the cycle of birth and death. Zen masters say, your thoughts at the moment you die decides your position on the food chain in your rebirth.
Suppose, at the moment of your death you are produced before a panel of alien beings (God?) who ask, “You have a choice. A) you go back to your planet as you were.(a near death experience?) or B)you can go back as a new being (rebirth?) or C) you can stop all this nonsense and become a part of the force. You come from nothingness (aka “the force)and you go back to it (Attaining nirvana?). What does one decide?
Since we are familiar with this world and humans being are conditioned to move in a familiar direction, most of us take choice A or B. The ego or the “I” factor takes the decision for us. The “I” developed over a lifetime doesn’t allow us to unlearn things in an instant. That’s why all spiritual teachings tell us to let go of all ties, materialistic and emotional. They ask you to stop thinking (I think therefore I am. I don’t think therefore I am not?) Osho the funny guy who almost began a rolls Royce dealership (for the uninitiated, he owned 99 of those frightfully expensive carts) said that a state of NO MIND is worth striving for. The others in the spiritual line up were also equally keen on the No Mind idea. Krishna the forerunner of strategic warfare was also insistent when he said, “the ego is the only thing that will stop you from attaining godhead, nirvana, bliss and other assorted absolute words.”
Life on earth is supposed to be a punishment according to the scriptures, at least the ones that don’t have a hero and sound like a badly written Mills and Boon novel. The choice of getting back to the infinite void is offered to you in each of your lifetimes. And each time we choose to come back to this world, the idea that one can stop this and become “nothing” scares the death out of us.
Living is overrated. Good things happen, bad things happen, what if nothing happened. Terrifying isn’t it? But we have never experienced nothingness. Buddha, Vivekandana, the zen masters and many others who have experienced the concept of nothingness in this lifetime say it’s brilliant. As is the usual case with homo sapiens we worship them and continue to ignore the core of their teaching.

I am going to be a nice guy and answer questions before I am asked.
a.I am not disgusted with life, on the contrary I believe in living it to the hilt.
b.Yes, I know there are lots of loose ends here, tying them up is not my job, you go do your own damn tying up loose ends shit.
c.If you belong to a monotheistic religion and you got an axe to grind its fine with me. Just don’t tell me to go read the bible or Koran, I probably have read it more than you and your grandmother put together. Show me relevant passages that make sense and I will reply.
d.You have the right to think. That is the only right no dictator, censor or moral and immoral police can take away from you. So use it and use it well, you will die one day and might be given a choice. Who knows this entire article might be true.
e.You have the right to complain, about this article. I suggest you use www.customersupport.microsoft.com to do it.
f.I will open an ashram if I get enough pretty women to fill it with.
Send your contribution to:
Buy a Rolls Royce for Antimatter Fund
Antimatter Ashram
To be opened Shortly