Another bit about Taoism

I’m gonna talk through something here, and hopefully come to a resolution about what we are, and what this universe is.

It seems obvious to me, after years of meditation, that we are all one. So, what are we as a whole? We are the universe. It also seems obvious to me, that God is the universe too. So in someway, God is us and we are him. However, if we were to say something like, “I am God,” that would be inaccurate, Because the whole of God is truly God, not one piece of it. Eckhart Tolle likes to say that like the rays of the sun, we are the sun, but also just an emanation. Sunlight is the sun, but the sun is also a swirling mass of fusing plasma that emanates sunlight. So the whole of it, all of it, all of us, is God, is the “sun” and is the universe too.

It gives me peace to think of myself as part of a whole, as opposed to a singular, distant, separate self from everyone else. We are all learning together. We are all witnessing together. We are all living together. God knows all things, because God is all things. God is the community of being itself. I hope you can take comfort in that too, because I can’t see a more inclusive being than this Divine, living universe.

Chinese Taoism was one of the first philosophies, in a roundabout way, to teach this universal pantheism. I know that pantheism is a dangerous word to some groups, but I assure you that there is no harm intended. This is us. From the deepest recesses of space, to the surface colors of a flower, this is us.

Zen is known for adopting Taoism when Buddhism was introduced to China centuries ago. The inclusiveness of these philosophies make dialogue possible. If we can’t question our beliefs, or test them in order to come to a deeper understanding, then we’ve wasted our time here. We have to grow up eventually. Sure, comforting stories about the Buddha, or Jesus are pleasant; Given to us to help us through, but they will only work until they don’t. If we discover sometime around middle-age that they don’t anymore, we have to look somewhere else.

Again, silence is key. No music, no TV, no phone. Breathe and sit. Let your inner awareness exist for a while. Awareness is what you are… If we keep scurrying around like rats from one thing to the next, never slowing down, we’re never gonna discover what all this is pointing to. That’s why people so often call society “the rat race.” Perhaps when machines are doing everything for us, we’ll slow down long enough to breathe again. Either way it has to be done.

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Peace to you and yours.