Coming into consciousness and making a conscious choice, guided by perhaps little more than a fleeting hope
A Personal Meditation, borrowed from varying similar life view examples of others before me since the dawn of time,
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing?," Helen Keller
A flower grows out of the muddy earth that at first seems to swallow it up. It chooses to embrace its created purpose and let the forces of the universe accompany it as it chooses to live and so it journeys upwards and blossoms above the surface for all to enjoy and marvel at for both its beauty and its journey. Its choice is automatic. Yours is not.
We also can rise above our current seemingly impossible circumstances that leave us in darkness with lack of vision, as we were in the dirt with only a dim initial starting conscious point. In our life whatever form it takes we can and are designed to do the same. We must have perseverance, confidence and the ability to survive during and through adversity that makes our path seem hopeless. Surviving when there is no hope is one of the most difficult things to do or even fathom a design for while our conscious is still dim.
The suggestion that you may be designed to live and may survive is all that you have to work with. You do not have any assurance that you will survive or thrive in this realm in which you have a limited perspective to perceive from where you are currently but only the ability to fathom what "Might be." You know you know nothing but as you heighten your conscious you become able to fathom what then increases to "Seems," like it "could be." It may even eventually increase to something like, "Should be." You will never know that it "Is" unless you succumb to delusion, but if you have faith you may one day come to see as you work within the limited means you have and accurately understand the whole while how you have nothing, know nothing, can change nothing but that you have but only the thing that life gives, consciousness and with the consciousness, a choice. This is all you have and all you ever will have for sure. What you do with that is the most important and all encompassing meaning of life. For when all seems hopeless if you think of this and choose to embrace the small still glimmer of purpose and hope, and boldly make the choice as you must, some small shred of hope can come and be restored to you. This is your only fuel. It can also be called faith.
Those only in the living realm of reality, which I call the real matrix, do not have that fuel. They have no hope they only have certainty. The only hope they could possibly have of over coming is the hope that certainty can be dropped like the false facade it is and all will come to see that which we are talking about.
When that small hope that comes from knowing you can know nothing reveals itself there is far more hope than there ever was before their was hope, and that small hope encourages a shred of faith and that shred of faith can be all that it takes to make it. During this process there is a chance that you will survive and that chance is better than nothing or giving up and dying or taking your own life.
Even if you do not survive, the conscious does something during the election of the choice. That election is an "Action" and the most brilliant scientist of our time Albert Einstein came and bestowed upon us the most important scientific equation of all time in the real world, E=MC squared. Which states that every "Action" has an equal and opposite reaction and that seemingly impossibly small thing such as the tiniest hope of purpose in the darkness that leads to the smallest seed of faith can bring forth a huge opposite reaction that is proportional in bigness only to its significance of its original smallness. So even science can show that the laws of the universe are in tandem with the very same teachings of religion. You will not see that shown to you in a way such that I have every day so stop and listen and take it all in. Write that down in your hearts and minds and see the brilliance and the truth in it.
Think of this possibility and compare it with your own life circumstances and limited perspectives. Be inspired to go past what you can currently see. Offer yourself only this small hope right now.
Imagine that you are a flower seed buried beneath untold and unknowable amounts of earth. There is mud all around you, and you can feel it pushing in on you clearly. These are the delusions of the perpetuated deceptions of man. Do not buy into them. Go the opposite way. Learn from the error of them only. Above you, above this muddy pool of dirt, mud and filth, are sunshine and air. You are not disheartened as you begin your journey towards the surface away from the force of gravity and towards only the perhaps tiniest perception of warmth if fortune is so bountiful to even offer that much from the position you find yourself in.
With a determined heart, you begin to wiggle in the earth. You grow roots deep, deep into the mud. Your little stem grows up slowly. Finally, you reach the surface and can lift out and beyond the mud with the momentum you gathered when things were so bleak. It is just as the spaceship in the third matrix movie eventually made it over the clouds up from the scorched earth and first saw the sun that was always there.
Everything speeds up and becomes so much easier now as you have broken the surface. You are out of the mud and ready to flourish. Your stem grows higher and higher, taller and taller. You reach up towards the warm sun, shining down on you. Your bud begins to grow on top of your stem. It expands and grows larger and larger, finally bursting into full bloom.
You stand beautifully above the earth not dirtied by the mud from which you grow as you shed your outer protective skin you had with you all along for such a good and right purpose. You are white, fragrant and beautiful. Everyone who saw you, marveled at your beauty and also can learn from, even more so, your struggle.
Your determination to grow out of the muddy pond reminds them of all things of the universe that create beauty out of seeming chaos and hope out of hopelessness. It is as if God or the creator designed this process for you to go through, into the very fabric of the universe.
If you believe in Jesus you can see that he was also presented with these same challenges and showed that he could overcome them to serve as an example and offer a guiding path through his teachings.
Other religions say the same things about their leading figures. Rather than be judgmental I believe it was in the design of our creator to make these things so as they can speak to people of all persuasions at least initially. Later labels and definitions can come once you are above the soil.
Perhaps these truths are interwoven into the fabric of the universe and have been perceived by more people and more religions and even scientists than just your, at first, limited vision allows for. You can sort that out later. Make the choice now. You can assign credit and give thanks to appropriately defined entities at a later point. You do not and cannot always understand a choice fully from the moment of making it. Only understand the essence of the choice. It is why Jesus said to bring the children unto him for the kingdom of heaven belongs to children such as these. They have made the choices on a level of a child prior to being exposed to the slings and arrows of the world of reality and far before they fully understood the full significances of their choices. This is how we should make choices. We must make them with conviction as soon as we can perceive them and far before we can fully understand them.
Make the right choice now and understand it later. Follow the light of hope. You can do this once you alienate yourself from the dulling sensibilities that the distractions and the delusions of this world have set up and perpetuated for you.
The fastest route to this workable destination is the one I counsel on and the center of my wisdom as also the wisdom of the wisest men in history, King Solomon, Socrates and so on. Know and understand that you know nothing. Separate yourself from what you thought you knew. Then only what can be known will guide you. It is so small but it is there. It only needs to be seen in the absence of the delusions that are so prevalent. The delusions are of evil and why they say the world is evil, is because of the limited perspectives and self serving nature of man in it. Evil can be defined therefore as anything contrary to the will of the creator. The will of the creator is for you to be all that you were created to be as so you were designed and can realize this from your analysis of the design itself from with in and without. So, the will of the creator is for you to dismiss your self from living with delusions and a dim conscious, to rise above with a heightened conscious and tune into the very essence of the matter that makes up this world and your designed creation and then you can make the highest choice that constitutes your purpose and your meaning of life itself.
We may have defilements and limitations in the real world but when we see that we know nothing and can count on nothing and can change nothing but are completely vulnerable, we are left with the choice that is the very meaning of life. When we see this clearly we are out and away from the delusions engulfing mankind. Only from that perspective can we see them and choose appropriately. Only then do we make that pivotal election to shrivel away and abandon hope or to try to rise up and try and defy all manner of deceptions that other may lump upon you designed to reassure your doubts, and instill a permanent, unbreakable, sense in you that there is no hope.
This is the choice of mankind to bestow this on you as their ills have left them no alternative. This destruction comes from their own distorted paths brought to them by their own wring choices. If we heighten our conscious and perceive these things to come to understand ands see them for the things they are and for the reasons that made them so, and utilize the tools that helped us gain this perspective for all matter of growth from that point, day by day we can continue to make that ultimate choice that elevates us above the place where the others who conversely chose, left the remnants of all those who went that way and all manner of the bulk of delusional human kind left behind.
On a daily basis and when we reaffirm and make that choice a new we have fully served our created purpose from that very first moment regardless of how far down the road we get or even if we never ever even make it to the surface of the mud and up and out to blossom before we are gone we have done something far greater than we would have if we had not made the choice as we did.
When the choice is made, the fullness and richness of the meaning is already given to us even if the bloom never comes. It is not the bloom that saves us. It is the acknowledging and belief that we may be capable and are willing to decide we will work toward it in spite of all else.
All religions teach this, even science shows it to be true. It is not until mankind starts to doubt and becomes concerned and begins to twist the things of the world to suit his needs at the costs of others and of the truth and places he is willing to defile and draw a deception over all others for his own temporary survival and benefit as he perpetuates delusions and oppression and hostility and all other manner of means to stifle the hopes of others that mankind truly falls and fails.
We all have the potential of growing out of our defilements and achieving wisdom and oneness with reality and true meanings of things , like the Jesus taught or Socrates explored, or King Solomon realized or Buddha and so many more all have shown.
You can choose to be a beautiful flower, and your role is to remind people to rise above their defilements and sufferings, just as you are arising above the muddy earth and not dirtied by the mud from which you grow. To show by example by first coming to understand and gain the ability to know the example by becoming of it and coming out of it.
If you are in this state right now all you need to do is apply this perspective. Realize the hope. Do all that you can to persevere. You one day may show others what you have done but even if you don't, from the moment you chose to go this way and adapt this belief as your own personal life choice, you have already arrived in the harmony with the universe and its creator from this moment on.
I personally believe that God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit allow for this and than when Jesus said that nobody came unto the father but through him and that he was the living word and light of truth and that he was one with God and was before and for all time that this is what it all meant and the very design of it is in us and shown in all creation and even to other religions some truths can be shown.
Coming to the Father could be through a variety of perspectives and still of the work of Jesus and the light of truth. So many People get caught up in John 3 16 and the idea that you have to believe in Jesus to have eternal life that it sets up judgements and stumbling blocks for those who would choose wrongly to fall ultimately and bring others with them as they do.
Remember the light is there it may be faint or unseen but it its there above the clouds and the choice to believe even if in a small way provides the faith to make that choice. Just as in the Matrix series in the third movie when Neo was not able to save Trinity. She died but his place was secured as was hers, as they were together as one at the moment he made the choice to go through the door that offered a choice.
He, like you may not fully have understood his choice as you may not when you first make your choice. Vision and clarity can come later but the choice comes immediately. The choice comes first. This choice is the meaning of life and it will take all different forms and shapes and sizes for all people and it will never be able to be nailed down and fashioned in a way that you can understand it before you go through the door and live it out to fulfillment until the end whatever form it takes.
If you truly take the choice your soul will know and all manner of force in the universe will know. Regardless of the journey you take from that point on your heightened conscious helped you to make the best choice you could with your conscious existence. Man can know nothing more and hope for nothing more than that alone. After that, and in that, and before that, there was only every other thing then himself and so it will be again.
Your time is now. If you are reading this and understanding this your time is now. Make the right choice. May peace and hope and enlightenment be with you and do allow yourself to realize and know that others realize also and go with you, and have gone before you and will go after you, whether seen by you or not, we are and will be there. Know, this and take comfort and find strength as you come to understand the fullness of the choice you have made.
