“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our “emptiness”. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
… Eric Hoffer 1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom
EMPTINESS … REALIZED AND DISPLAYED EMOTIONALLY
EMOTIONS … WHERE HUMAN CONDITION MEETS HUMAN EXPERIENCE
By learning how to listen/sensually tune into the natural pulse of your body … your mind’s only connection to this material reality … you become more in touch with how this impermanent reality relates the presence of its ongoing naked change experience to your human condition. Inward self-deliberation … meditation.
You are allowing insightful “aha” moments to assemble the relationships of the natural principles that affect the outcomes that condition and shape your emotionally coded report of your human experience.
When shifting waking awareness into the ticktock activity of the flesh, an individual takes their thoughts away from ego-fed emotionally spun ongoing loops of regret or guilt of the past or worry about future times. The consciousness slides into what Elkhart Tolle refers to as being the collective consciousness that all humans are a part of.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
This collective consciousness only makes itself known in the present moment … in between the ticks of time’s clock that just keeps unwinding the present moment as the universe continually expands. Siddhartha describes how to access this same white light arena in his 8 folds in the pathway to enlightment as having the right effort (mental) and the right awareness (focus).
Theology short circuits this understanding by having one of its many gods promise the sudden emotional bliss brought on sometime after dying.
As our understanding of how mother nature’s natural principles weave together, we become more aware of how we “fit into” the cause/effect outcomes that define the never ending process of ongoing change that animates the present moment we stand emotionally vulnerable to. The deeper understanding is emotionally calming … as our “emptiness-of-understanding” dissipates bit by bit.
UNDERSTANDING BRINGS EMOTIONAL BLISS … THEOLOGY CALLS IT “HEAVEN”
Every individual has a driving force/life goal … inner-cast and unknown to most … to walk a present moment pathway that allows self-training a waking understanding of the logistics of the relational justice matrix that determines life’s situational outcomes … the outcomes we can’t control yet affect and condition our egos to make the choices that get repeated to fashion and shape our worldview and personality-defining patterns of reactional behavior. Humans yearn to develop an understanding awareness of life’s principles to generate emotional harmony in today’s world … to eradicate all suffering … to realize a balanced emotional makeup or what religious theology refers to as “heavenly bliss”.
Understanding nature’s principles and how they affect each emotion enlightens an individual to the understanding awareness of the same afterlife emotional bliss that the religious templates promise and that realists seek to achieve while living.
Learning the body-speak language metered in the body’s sensual braille opens the primal coupling between an individual’s innate subconscious life principle awareness to their unknowing waking consciousness. An individual can self-train the wisdom that replaces the ignorance that causes their emptiness-spun suffering. They learn to better understand those principles that unconditionally without prejudice rule the relational outcomes of everything that has affect on an individual’s life experience.
UNDERSTANDING WHERE THE HUMAN CONDITION MEETS THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE …
“It’s the principle of the thing.”
… Mother Nature’s tagline