Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Understanding Infinity

Hello and welcome to this video about Understanding Infinity.

We’ll look at three topic and you might be surprised by the path we’ll take through the “Infinity in Mathematics”, “Infinity of God” and the “Infinity of the World”.

As it is with all my videos you don’t need to have a lot of knowledge in any of these topics (especially not Mathematics), the only thing you need is an open mind and the willingness to use it.

The “Infinity in Mathematics” could also be called the “Unreality of Finite Numbers and Measures”.
And it’s mind-boggling :)
I will take a ruler to show you – and it really doesn’t matter which object we look at. However, the ruler is helpful because it already has numbers and measures to it. Naturally we think that everything can be measured in all its dimensions. So we say that this ruler is 6 inches wide.
However, how real are “6 inches”? If we think about it we’ll see that “6 inches” or any type of measurement, is extremely unreal.
Let me explain with a different question: How real is “the value of the coin”? Well, it doesn’t exist, it is nothing but an institution that was made by humans due to the helpfulness of trade. Only the coin itself is real (or THAT which creates the coin). Same with “6 inches” – it is no real thing. Half of the world doesn’t even use inches but centimeters. But that is nothing but another instituted con-cept as well.
What I want to say is that - in Mathematics and in Reality - the width of this ruler is infinite. There are infinite points in between beginning and end. The funny thing is that half the width of the ruler is infinite as well.
At this point, are we even sure of what it means when we say 6 + 3 = 9? I just got a bit uncertain.
You might already have a glimpse at infinity here...
Why is “part of the whole” still “equal to the whole”? It sounds quite strange to us in the first place, but that is normal since we approach the logic of higher dimensions! We remember that ∞ = 2x∞ = ∞^2 = ∞^∞.
Oh, and ∞/∞ is NOT 1.

Our next topic, the “Infinity of God” starts with a somewhat popular question: if God is truly all-mighty (as everybody says he is), could he create a rock that is that heavy he couldn’t lift it anymore? Of course this question is highly illogical and can’t be answered with the same, but only with higher logic – so let’s try!
First of all, God is NOT a grumpy, old man or any other “separate” being.
At this point let me tell you that any connotations and ideas you have of the word “God” might be in the way of further understand-ing.
We don’t want to explain the Infinite through the WORD “God”… that’s not possible; we need to do it the other way around! We want to peek into the Infinite and then KNOW what IT IS. So, quite often in previous videos, GOD was actually described as IT because it has no preconceived ideas to it. Replace GOD with whatever other word you like – but again - with no preconception, prejudice or connotation.
Some people might find it difficult to follow the thinking for they believe in the absence of a grumpy old man and thus believe in the absence of IT. However, can you be certain to KNOW the absence of IT? Especcially since we already scientifically proved the existence of IT!

OK, so getting past that, what do we assume to know about God?
First of all, God is infinite.
God is all-present (but without acting), all-knowing (which has to much connotation of having an agenda, so all-witnessing is a better word), all-mighty (which again has to much connotation of having an agenda, so all-creating is a better word).

This means that NOTHING IS NOT GOD – and by the way this includes you!

Yet, there’s more we can say: IN THE INFINITY OF IT, EVEN A PART CONTAINS ALL!
So speaking in images, ALL that creates our incredibly huge universe is contained and exists in a small daisy flower AS A WHOLE.
Or - each single grain of sand contains the same Infinity as the whole universe… which leads us to

The Infinity of the World
Now, if we apply our logic from what we learned above, isn’t everthing in the world infinite?

For sure time is, and as you might remember, Time is truly Eternity which doesn’t mean ‘time without end’ but ‘without time’.

Everything happens in the Now – always. Nothing ever happened outside of Now. Now is eternal. You take a photo in the Now, you look at a photo in the Now. When you go for a walk, you leave in the Now and you arrive in the Now. You are born in the Now, you die in the Now.

Imagine a Life-Time being this ruler. Then (normally) we think that our life moves along an imaginary line from birth to death.
However, no matter where you are, you are always in the Now: when you are young, you most commonly experience feelings and thoughts of having your life in front of you. When you’re older, you experience feelings and thoughts of having lived most of your life.

The strange thing is that each arrow you could possibly draw is “You experience feelings and thoughts of created by what IS”.
Each “dot” you can point at is “You in the Now”. Nothing is ever not “You in the Now”.

It’s very similar with Space, and you might remember, Space is truly Infinity which doesn’t mean ‘space without borders’ but ‘without space’.
I feel that there’s so much more to say about this, however, the Infinity of Space was already topic in my previous videos, so please review those videos if you’re interested – and I hope you can forgive me for taking the short route here.

In the end, all that counts is the value you get from thinking about all this stuff. And – for me – it’s not about having fun by talking crazy stuff, but about filling life with wonder and awe.

So tell me, what is the size of your Consciousness? – or how many different emotions could you potentially experience in this moment?

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Awakening and Its Supporting Conditions

Hello my friends.
This video blog will be a bit more personal than previous ones. I’d like to think about Awakening and its supporting conditions.
It was in the beginning of 2009 when I had - what we might call - an Awakening experience, the realization of non-separation. From that point on, the perception of the world changed. However, I can say that the feeling of Enlightenment was not abiding.
There were blissful seconds, minutes and sometimes hours of total immersion in Consciousness, however, then there are times in which I just intellectually understand and then catch myself desiring and trying to attain that heavenly state again.

Intellectually knowing with your mind but not feeling with your heart and body is very contradictory in itself - even ironic. Despite knowing that the Ego doesn’t exist (and the old Ego was awakened from), apparently a new Ego arose and is now a new barrier in between all the desires and whom we really are.
This situation can be called ‘trying to close the gap’ or ‘trying to escape the maze’ of feeling Separation although we know that neither the gap nor the maze exist. At this point, there is no direct advice I can share with you all, except to improve your own self-reflection or self-awareness. Please know that I do not want to create opinions or judgments about what is good or bad. There is no difference for example between an awakened being and a non-awakened being. In fact, the thought of Awakening being great is a big step away from it.

Lets look at Awakening and its supporting conditions - with conditions resembling environment, culture and circumstances. Again, this is very personal and has no right to be true. I’ll just be talking about potential conditions that can support Awakening or even support an abiding Enlightenment. Important to say is that we’ll reflect on these conditions from the perspective of Separation! You may already KNOW that in reality no such thing as Separation exists, but nevertheless, the feeling of it does.
And from this point of view, we can say that

Certain quite definite inner and outer conditions are requisite for (Awakening) — a certain culture, the education of those elements (friendly) to cosmic consciousness, and the elimination of those hostile to it.
by P.D. Ouspensky

About one year before my Awakening I underwent a serious change of life, to be specific, I moved to the other side of the globe away from everything I knew. So let me reflect on the conditions in the time shortly before my Awakening, thus making analogies to elements friendly or hostile to it.
These elements will be separated into “Absence of Hostile Elements”, “Presence of Friendly Elements”:

“Absence of Hostile Elements”
- No noise (from the city)
- No health-issues (like allergies)
- No monetary problems
- No unconscious influences from people close to me (ego-habits, contagiousness of minds)
- No interest in material belongings
- No drug consumption of any kind, e.g. alcohol
- No expectations
- unconsciously communicated to you, e.g. from family or friends
- consciously communicated to you, e.g. from work
- unconsciously given to you by yourself!

“Presence of Friendly Elements”
- Nature, stillness
- Aloneness (not loneliness)
- Great and more honest relationships
- Love (more in personified form) to family and friends
- Another culture than at “home” which was more pleasant-natured
- Unrestricted freedom in all facets of life
- Personal life (Do what you love)
- Work life (Trustful environment, my own boss, great team, success)
- Pursue all own desires

This combination of Elements then resulted in
- Realization of vicious circle, never ending dissatisfaction of own desires (due to the complete satisfaction of all desires)
- Thoughts about the unreality of things
- Meditation
- Frequent experiences of synchronicity
- Entry of the mysterious and wonder into life
- Discovering a new logic (of higher dimensions)
- Awakening
- .
- Seeking knowledge about this experience in books
- Started to share thoughts with others
- Trying to close the gap

However, what makes some of these elements “hostile” and others “friendly”?
Every human being has the ability to judge about something. Most of us take this judgement for reality though – which it is not.
So this Voice of Judgement creates Thought which we think are true, and all it requires is things you don’t like. Things we are in rejection to.

For example if you want to own a great car, you don’t like that you don’t already have it and that creates thought. The more judgmental a person is, the more thoughts are created and that is very polluting. Feel free to reflect on each of these hostile elements shown here of how much they affect your life.

Now the complicated part is this: you will never be able to eliminate the problem itself, only the way how we perceive it. Noise for example. Same with expectations. You will always have expectations but the question is how much you believe them or let them negatively affect yourself.

Then, in the moment of no more thoughts, what remains is Stillness. In this state, there’s nothing but witnessing what is. Including thoughts. Thoughts will still be there but they will not be taken for true anymore. But then, if there is just a tiny amount of identification with judgment, for example due to the desire to awaken (or abide in Awakening), the Stillness will be covered up by thoughts once more. The identification has to cease again. Then, in this state of Stillness, the world is turned upside-down to the absolute positive full of joy, wonder, love, abundance, creativity and clarity.

Of course, Awakening can happen due to completely different conditions than what I had the chance to have in my life. Very often people awakened due to great suffering and an overwhelming amount of hostile elements in their life. Some people awakened because they were close to death.
For all those people sharing and teaching in their many ways though it is impossible to re-create such negative, hostile situations. On the other side, it is possible to strive for a positive and friendly culture. Please help with that. Then, the world will become more conscious and more still every day!