Some Insights part 1

Today is Easter Sunday. I was in bed this morning thinking back to an Easter almost 40 years ago. I was in Ohio. I got up early and the day was warm and sunny. I thought it was a mystical day-obviously because it was Easter. Today, I know better-there are no special mystical days. All days are mystical. It goes back the the wonder of God. Yesterday I was driving past a church. The sign out front invited us to worship over breakfast. I though it was odd that people worshiped a God that was no more than an idea. God only exists in our minds. But then I though people have been worshiping gods for thousands of years and it has only been the last three hundred or so in which some people-at least in the west-have decided there really is no God. In the East, the idea of God was never developed in the same way. It i sonly in the Jewish Christian traditions that God exists.

That said, people still believe in a god-be it the old guy in the white robe or some White brotherhood somewhere off in the universe or something called the Tao (also somewhere in the universe). THe idea has always been that we are apart form this "being" and that through different techniques, it may be possible to make contact with it. The problem is that it is all nonsense. WE are part of this being. WE are the being, along with everything else. We are not apart from anything. THere is no need to make some kind of connection. All you have to do is realize that the connection is already there.

Now, even after a connection is made, we also have to realize that in reality the power of the universe is not a separate consciousness that can give us direction. Lao Tzu never said the Tao told us what to do. Rather he said it was a power that we could tap into. Think of it as electricity (a very limited example). We can plug in a lamp, for example, but the electricity has no mind to light it up. It is simply there for us to use. That is what the universe or the Tao is like. It is simply a power that we can access

More in part 2