Although reality appears to be made up of different things, all things are one.1 Turning the existence we perceive into the everyday things we conceive is the work of our imaginations.2 Our perception of patterns,3 rearranged at every scale, to give us useful understanding. They are veils4 of the hard, silent, truth of the oneness of all. There is no self; no other; only the real oneness of this existence. It is not nothingness, but everythingness. Our everything. The one being that trumps the many signs5 and sentiments which follow. Signals for the insignificance of life, its wonders and tortures, in the face of the all encompassing all. Nothing is, but everything now. You, in the magnificent singularity6 of this moment of existence, as one, unified, whole. Now is the time!7 This is it. All existence is in our here and now. We have nothing else, if we will admit it. Our transcendent experience points us to the truth of all things; the rest is our handiwork. The fullness of now8 is the source point of all belief. The start of all we understand, all patterns and their seeming complexity, our creations, every change, life, death9 and redemption. We have faith in these works of our imagination, making things understandable. But there is only one thing:10 our unknowable now. What is existence? It is just an un-imaginable11 everything.
1 “It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my word, and to confess that all things are one.” - Fragment 50, Heraclitus
2 This is not to say they do not exist. The bullet that kills you is real. Rather, converting external existence to a comprehensible internal representation depends on the creation of that representation by our minds.
3 “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake
4 Kashf, a Sufi concept meaning “unveiling”, is the process of removing the veils of perceived reality that separate us from the universality of the reality of realities (i.e. Allah’s oneness).
5 Cours de linguistique générale, Ferdinand de Saussure
6 A singularity is a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined. Being alive in the moment cannot be defined.
7 Tuh nuhis kuDa
8 “When you begin to include more in your awareness than the content of your thoughts and fantasies, you realize the fullness of now.” - Nothing Personal, Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self, Nirmala
9 “A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle. When release comes at last—the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them—and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.” - Mark Twain
10 “Set Yourself on Fire”, Stars
11 “Indeed our task as your guide is to trigger the processes by which you build intuition and insight into the Unimaginable.” - The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch
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