LIFE

Man has throughout time been seeking something beyond himself, beyond his material substance, beyond his existing circumstances – something true, something real; something that cannot change by circumstances, thought, or evil. An underlying reality that sustains life, all life; One Life beyond man’s comprehensive search to find answers to the questions that man has always asked: What is life all about? Has life any meaning? What am I to do with life? Is there anything beyond life?

During man’s search for answers he sees mass confusion, cruelty, and conflict. In this constant battle, man sets boundaries according to the society in which he lives, regulating behavior with punishments and rewards as established by government, global economy, and God. Man looks to someone to tell him how he ought to behave and how he ought to think. In following this pattern, man’s thoughts and actions become mechanical in nature. Separating himself from what is of true importance, man's discovery of One Life that collectively is in us all.

What do we know that we have not been taught? There’s nothing new under the sun. We have been socialized by our parents, taught by our teachers, ruled by our authorities, and guided by our religious leaders. Life for many has become secondhand. There is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves.

Man is a creature of habit. When the mind is merely consistent it becomes mechanical and loses the vitality, the glow, the beauty of free movement. It is up to each of us to understand life; the suffering, the misery; the meaning of death, of birth, of sorrow, of joy. Nobody can tell us about life, we each have to discover these movements and their meanings for ourselves. For life is not an incident but a movement in which these occurrences happen.

The tendency is to follow blindly a reality promised by another. Man has mechanically followed somebody, anybody who has promised him a comfortable life. To understand the immaturity of relying upon another to show him how he ought to live is a total ignorance and denial of Life. To understand without seeking through others or in anything else is the beginning of wisdom.

And what is One Life? Life that is connected and concerned with the total state of affairs of the world. It's the realization that in life there is filth, degradation, sorrow, tears, and there is also joy, laughter, the beauty of a flower in the sunlight. What matters, surely, is to be sensitive to everything, and not merely to decide what is beautiful and what is ugly and remain stuck with that opinion.

One Life sees his brother not as something separate from himself, rather, as his self. One Life views the world in wholeness and with that perspective, right action is demonstrated which answer the question, "what ought man to do?" What can be done is to take notice of how our lives are responsible for all this existing chaos, confusion, and conflict in the world because all of us, collectively, have contributed to it in our daily lives. So in this way, we cannot depend upon others, there is no one else to blame, there is only man and his relationship with others and with the world. Nobody else is responsible for the world and himself; about what he thinks, how he feels, and when he acts. Therefore he is the world and the world is him. The moment I say to myself, I realize that I am the world and the world is me, I am not a Christian, nor a Hindu, or a Buddhist - nothing, I am a human being.

So what is necessary in the discovery for Life? Observation of what is - as an actual fact, whereas the fact demands that you look at it; the fact demands that you observe it, you listen to it. The fact itself will have the answer, you don't have to bring the answer to it. The fact is what's really taking place in man's daily life beyond conditioning. He must examine his thoughts and be aware of how these thoughts have been cleverly constructed by the mind, historically, fragmenting his existence, confusing his thought process, creating conflict. And when he looks at what is taking place in the world with clarity, he begins to understand that there is no inner and outer activity, it is all whole, it is all one. It's the inner and outer reacting upon each other simultaneously, the inner and outer are one.

What should I do now? Start by learning about Life by being very honest and open to it. Not according to me or anyone else, but you are now free without fear to discover for yourself what you really are as Life. For a mind free of fear is capable of love. And where there is love, there is no right or wrong, justify or condemn. For love as life has no opposite, it just is, as you are.

What is freedom? Freedom from past associations dictating how we ought to think, feel, and live. The mind is now alive with awareness of what is going on inside itself without correcting it or telling it what it should or shouldn’t do. Just be aware of it without judgment, accepting its mind chatter as a voice from the past, nothing more, nothing less. The importance then, is that there must be freedom from the known, otherwise, life becomes repetitive, a continuous superficial scratching of the surface. It has no meaning.

For us to see reality, we must forget all that we know about ourself; forget all that we have ever thought about ourself, forget all that we have ever been taught about ourself. Let the journey of un/knowing, un/learning, un/conditioning begin so that we might begin to understand Life for the very first time. So that we might begin to understand Life before it becomes this, that, or the other thing.

In discovering whether there actually is or is not something beyond this anxious, guilty, fearful existence, man must ask himself, “Is there another way”? I hope this site will offer you that “other way".