THE UNIVERSE

Everybody is pretty curious about it ah! Okay, let me define it in my own way...........

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It’s you. It’s all you. You’re a feature of the universe in the same way that your individual cells are features of your human organism. You’re not a person made of cells, as if there were something in you distinct from the entire biological structure that’s more real you. You are the aggregate functioning of all the cells in your body. Well, in the same way, the universe is the aggregate functioning of all its component, interdependent features. You don’t live ‘in’ it, you are it.

However, human beings play a game in which we pretend that we’re all isolated individuals who confront a universe that has nothing to do with us. I say this is a game only in the sense that it’s technically speaking a pretense, but it has very deep roots in psychology and biology...

Waking up from the social hallucination of a divided reality happens to people all the time all over the world, and these people actually come to experience themselves not as an isolated creature who confronts an alien universe, but as the universe itself expressing itself as their particular form...

What this realization of the universe as an undivided unity really means is that the whole epistemology of science and even the very ancient Judeo-Christian ideal of the morally virtuous individual are essentially false...

This whole game of science and the quest for a more complete knowledge of the cosmos could come to an end if we were all somehow to shake ourselves awake from the social hallucination of a fundamentally divisible universe...

The main thing that Buddhism and meditation have shown me is that the human condition is so much more absurd than any of us could possibly imagine. Our lives are exactly absurd. We imagine a psychological identity that never existed in the first place and then go around trying to negotiate each other into preserving and augmenting our identities...

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