The mystery of the universe is that it is mysterious.
"Mysterious" doesn't show up anywhere out there like an absolute is.
Out there, there is no distinction "mysterious". "Mysterious" is a
distinction wholly created by we human beings. The emperor has no
clothes. We are the mystery makers. We declared the universe to be
mysterious to keep the game interesting. Then, to keep the interesting
game going, we had to forget that it was we who declared the universe
to be mysterious to keep the game interesting. We have forgotten so
well that it was we who declared the universe to be mysterious to keep
the game interesting that the mystery we created now has a life of its
own which is seen by us, its creators, as having nothing to do with us,
as wholly separate and distinct from us, even as enigmatic.
We, source, are surrounded by our own creation. We are immersed in it.
We
swim
in it. While we tantamount to make believe that we are in mystery about
it, we can remember any time we choose to that we created it. We can
remember any time we choose to that we created the mystery to keep the
game interesting. We can remember any time we choose to that we had to
forget it was we who declared the universe to be mysterious to keep the
interesting game going. We are source in the matter of our own
experience. That's Enlightenment 101. We are source in the matter of
our own lives. That's a bigger piece to bite off. We are source in the
matter of Life itself. That stand is not for the faint hearted.
Bird
is to sky as fish is to water as human is to source.
Birds'
milieu is sky. Sky is so integrated into
birds'
lives that a
bird
doesn't have the distinction "sky". A
bird
doesn't notice sky. Fishes' milieu is water. Water is so integrated
into fishes' lives that a fish doesn't have the distinction "water". A
fish doesn't notice water. So it is with we humans and source. Our
milieu is source. Source is so integrated into our lives that we don't
have the distinction "source". We don't notice source.
Could it be that we humans not noticing source is
not an accident
nor a failure of intelligence but rather simply an act of intention?
Could it be that every aspiration we have made significant would be
rendered completely meaningless if we were to distinguish source in our
lives? Could it be that we live our entire lives in vain because we
live in violation of the distinction "source"? Could it be that after
all our win at all costs rackets fail to produce satisfaction, after
our protect ourselves no matter what the cost bigotry doesn't produce
security, after all our holier than thou righteousness makes our world
a more dangerous place in which to live not a safer place in which to
live, could it be that the reason why the jury is still out on the
experiment called "humankind" is because we live our lives backwards?
Could it be that we
futilely
invest everything we own trying to go towards source and trying to
attain source where we aren't rather than coming from source where we
are?
Coming from source where we are rather than trying to go towards source
and trying to attain source where we aren't is actually simple. What it
requires is remembering we created the mystery to keep the game
interesting. What it requires is remembering that we had to forget it
was we who declared the universe to be mysterious to keep the
interesting game going. And it's not that once we remember we created
the mystery that the game ends. The beauty of it is yes
that game ends but then since we are source, we get to
make up a new game to play ... over and over and over again ...
The tree leaves, the ocean waves, the universe peoples (as
Alan Watts
may have said). Source sources sources. Those are verbs, by the way.