All is One

Short, sweet, simple, and somewhat silly...
...but certainly serious.

The Spiritual Man - My Vows

While I was on vacation last week, I spent a lot of time sitting on the beach at night looking at the stars. They were so clear out there, so many of them, boundless and limitless space going out forever. Some of those bright lights are whole galaxies, billions of stars. Staring out into infinity, I couldn't help but think about how much fighting and unnecessary suffering we inflict on ourselves on Earth. It seems so silly when you realize that we're all together, floating on this rock in an infinite universe. What the hell are we doing?

The purpose of this is not to put men/minds or anyone down. I am just being honest, and writing what I see from my perspective.

The mind has created the world we live in today, and it will continue to do great things in the future if we do not destroy ourselves. We cannot survive the divisions that separate us. They result in wars and destruction of the environment. We need to find our common ground. We need to get ourselves together and embrace Oneness. Our enemy is not other people; our true adversary is the beast within, our own minds, our false perspective and ignorance. Men have been programmed by evolution to fight and compete. As of now, we no longer have to fight each other to survive. There is only one battle to be fought, and that is the battle between truth and deception. Now is the time to come together and share the world, or else we will go extinct. If we get into another war, there will be mass nuclear suicide, and even if we don't destroy ourselves, Mother Nature will destroy us if we don't come together and start to work in harmony with nature instead of destroying the environment.

As of now, there is absolutely no reason to initiate and glorify war, and countless reasons why war is unnecessary, unwarranted, unacceptable, and destructive. "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.

The situation that men have created is too dangerous; we have to overcome our animal minds and take the spiritual path.

As of now, almost all men are slaves to the mind. The spiritual man knows that he is not his mind, and he sees clearly that the mind is the problem. The mind is that which distracts us from life in the present; the mind is our true adversary. The spiritual man sees how the mind deceives himself and others, and by noticing this, he begins to get control of his mind. The spiritual man naturally does the right thing, because he knows the truth, and thus he knows right from wrong. The spiritual man is honest and virtuous, and he will never lie to someone who knows the truth, simply because there is no reason to. The spiritual man is a child at heart, and he has the awareness of a child without the ignorance of childhood.

The Spiritual Man = The Real Man

The path of the spiritual man is as follows:

Men have to seek the truth to overcome the mind. A man is what he knows and more importantly does, and the spiritual man knows the truth and spreads the truth. The spiritual man devotes his life to seeking, defining, and spreading the truth and the life, because he knows that it is the most important thing he could possibly be doing. The spiritual man will do everything he can to create a Heaven on Earth, to make this world a better place to live. Spiritual men will lead the way.

The natural drive for men is to make this world a better place for life, for women and children. It is the mind that distracts men from their spiritual state of giving truth and reflecting love. Men have the potential to be something far more than just a hard worker and a great thinker, a "bad boy" and a sex-machine. Men have the potential to be Truth, to shine with life, and to give their wives and children truth and life, the only true security.

In ancient Sanskrit, "man" translates to "mind." Mankind = Mindkind. "Woman" means "womb-man," or mind with a womb. Men and women are different, but equal. Men and women think differently, and we are biologically different in not only our sex organs, but also our brain chemistry. No matter how much you want to fight it, it is reality.

People really need to look at their everyday lives and see how they give life to their minds and deceive others. We have to step up and stop deceiving others, or else we will never be able to share the love in the present. Honesty before love is the only way.

Both men and women are being fooled by the mind, living in the world of the mind, playing the mind games. However, women are the slaves of the slaves. Women are slaves to men, and men are slaves to the mind. Women have to realize they are being fooled. This is so important, because men built this world to please women. Women have to stop going after the aggressive bad boys, the fools, the deceivers; they need to give their love to a man who is truly ready to receive it. Women need to give their love to a man who knows the truth. Women need to wake up to the truth, because they have to power to change men. If women stop giving their love to men who are unable to receive it, men will take the spiritual path, because men need women to give birth to new life. The love of a woman is so powerful, and men will change when they realize that women really want truth and love. Women want to be loved, they must be loved, so they will change when they realize they are being fooled. Women NEED to wake up, because if they don't, men will destroy the world and the human race. The mind needs to be controlled, transformed, and women have the power to force men to change from deceivers and fools to truth seekers and spreaders. Women have the power to give their love to spiritual men, real men, so that other men will be forced to change their ways and stop using the mind for deceptive purposes. Wake up ladies.

Very soon, women will stop giving their love to phonies and "bad boys" who will never truly satisfy their souls. They will not trade the ultimate romance, creating a mini heaven on earth, a family founded on truth and love, for cheap thrills and animal chemistry. When women see the truth, they will only give their love to men who will give them and their families truth and life. Women will blossom spiritually before most men, because they will realize that they have been fooled by the mind. Women dream about love, romance, and creating life, and now they can have it all. All women ever needed was the truth and the life, and when they realize the truth, that is all they will want. Women are ready to be loved, and giving love to a spiritual man will make all of their dreams come true.

All men and women will take the spiritual path when they truly see it. Men must embark on the spiritual path. Men really will have no choice if they want to have a family and a fulfilling love life. You may as well surrender to life now while you still have a choice, because love will always prevail. It's up to you, yeah YOU.

"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure. Love is a flower; you gotta let it, you gotta let it grow." - John Lennon

To men seeking to overcome their minds and make the transition into a spiritual being, I suggest reading these two books: excerpts from "To Man in Truth" and The Present. The works are free and online. The books will help you to really see that your mind is the problem and the true reason for the strong attraction between men and women: True Love.

These are my honest vows. My intent in sharing this is not to attract people, nor to get attention, nor to make people feel shallow. My intent is to show men the way, to show men that they don't have to be under control of the mind anymore. I am showing men that there is no need to deceive, no need to hide your love away. I am trying to explain that true love, the truth and the life, the present, is all that is. All you need is love.

I vow to walk the spiritual path; I can't imagine doing anything else. I vow to devote my life to the truth and the life. I will not get married until I am with someone whom I don't have to play mind games with. I will not have sex until I am married, thus I will not have casual sex, because casual sex is chasing pleasure, and no pleasure is free; it will be balanced by an equal amount of pain. I seek the truth and the life, complete fulfillment, not just animal pleasure. I will wait for a spiritual woman who truly satisfies my soul, not a woman who just feeds my ego and satisfies my sexual desires and fantasies. When two people can just share the present without playing mind games, just being with each other, doing anything, that is true love. Just holding hands, laying on the grass, eating food, being together. Making love all day long, not just during sex, but sex will be a profound way to share the present with each other, to express love. No need for words, no need for constant entertainment, no need for a big house, fancy clothes, excess material possessions, no need for anything more than true love (the present) and the basic necessities of life.

I will love like a child loves life unconditionally. I will be a mirror of life, reflecting the life given to me in the present without any mental intrusions. The woman I am with will be able to see her mind and her true self, her spiritual self. I will set her free, and she will set me free. True freedom is being fulfilled independent of what happens in the environment. We will be truly free together, like babies when they start to crawl. The love we share will be as an ocean moving between the shores of our souls; we will fill each others' up, but not drink from each others' cup.

I will give my wife truth in words; I will not deceive her. I will always tell the truth and be honest. I will be true to myself, and thus her and everyone else, and she will realize that I have no reason to deceive. I will receive the love she gives me and reflect it back - I will be a mirror of life/love. I will not bring negative emotions into the relationship, because they will just perpetuate her emotions and cause conflict. We will create our own "heaven on earth," our own family based on truth and love, and when we bring souls into this world by conceiving children, we will give our children truth and love; we will raise them in truth and love. I will not deceive my children either; I will not tell them that something is true if I do not know beyond a reasonable doubt that it is true. I will show my children the way; I will show them how to live and love and be present by my example. I will give them truth, so they will not be childish and ignorant, but I will show them that they can be child-like forever. I will not fall to the temptation of another woman; there would be no reason to, because all I want is the truth and the life, and I would already be with a women who I could share the present with, share the love with.

I'll always be true.

Yes We Can

This letter was dropped off at my local post office on August 6, 2009, at 4:10 P.M. EST.

Destination: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, The White House

Dear President Obama,

The world is a mixture of pressing issues that don’t seem like they are resolvable by just one solution. Each problem is like a weed overgrowing in the garden of prosperity, and we cut down the weeds by reshaping and rethinking the structures of our society, but the roots are still there, ready to manifest themselves in other forms. We are the intelligent people that created this world we live in today. All the technology, comforts, and organization are the works of our hands, so why is it that we cannot solve the endless chain of suffering that we inflict on each other and the Earth?

The root of the problem is in our minds. People are trying to change the world backwards; we try to fix the external world, forgetting the source from which it is manipulated. Einstein said; “The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.” Human beings do not understand the natural harmony and order of nature and the universe; therefore, they do not understand themselves. Just look at Nature; the Earth is constantly changing in order to keep itself in balance. It moves with the inherent intelligence within all things of the universe. It knows the perfect conditions it needs to sustain life, balance ecosystems, create weather patterns, etc. Most importantly, Nature never wastes anything, because every part of it is integral to its functioning as a whole. Humans fail to function as a whole, because their ego gets in the way and obstructs them from their awareness of the whole. The ego/mind was necessary for survival in past evolution, but now we let it run us blindly into all of the evils of this world: war, prejudice, environmental destruction, excessive wealth, conspicuous consumption and many others. It is America that has been called “the great Satan,” because we have the reputation of having the least regard for the effects of our actions on the whole. The great Satan is really our egos/minds, which convince us that we are somehow better than others, and that our selfish desires are the only thing that matters. The true enemy, the true adversary is the invisible beast within, the ego/mind, and so we show indifference and separate ourselves from the unnecessary suffering of others. “Satan,” the mind, is what obstructs us from seeing the whole or God, from becoming in touch with All That Is. Being in touch with God is true peace and harmony.

Many countries around the world idolize American culture, because we fail to show them the real costs of excessive materialism, the costs of which we have been recently beginning to realize. Instead, we should become role models of honest and balanced living for the rest of the world by making a few changes in the system. First of all, we need to start to seriously prioritize what we invest our money in. Right now, we are wasting billions of dollars on war, when we could use it to fight the battles we could actually succeed in. For example, we should declare “war” for clean energy, especially for solar energy. There is no scarcity of energy; we have a giant nuclear reactor in the sky. Another option is the geothermal energy from the Yellowstone caldera. These projects would also create millions of jobs and help resolve the economic crisis. Living in harmony with nature will actually make us more prosperous. It is also essential for us to be an environmental example to developing countries, because if the billions in India and China started to live as materialistically as Americans, the amount of destruction to the environment would destroy our planet and us along with it.

We also need to create a truly equal society through a government that does not have any personal/ego motivations. The way it is now, our “democracy” helps out those who are already connected to the government by money, power and prestige. We need to redistribute the wealth in this country; there is no other way. We need to level the playing field. We need to cultivate people’s awareness of the whole of society, and how we can help everyone at once through honest work on each of the political issues.

Another issue that needs to be addressed is that of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are so dangerous that we could wipe the human race off the face of this Earth within an hour. America has the most, and therefore it needs to step up and disarm its nuclear weapons. We need to show that there is no necessity to live with fear, and the ultimate way to do it is by disarming. When other countries see that the most powerful country on earth is disarming, they will no longer feel they need to be fearful, and they will follow suit. It is the equivalent to the personal surrendering of the ego, which we need to do one by one, but doing it on a grand scale will inspire many people to try. Nuclear weapons are something we hold onto because of mass paranoia. Let’s just ask ourselves; do we want to live in fear or peace?

We are American college students, and we stand for the ideals we have never truly realized: equality, prosperity, happiness and freedom. These can only be realized with the truth. With the truth, you naturally do what is right, because you understand the nature of the universe. It transforms you into a spiritual being, one who no longer lives according to the dictates of the ego. Sir, the driving force behind your campaign was the emotionally charged phrase “Yes We Can.” You knew and you still know that something has to change; all of us know it, at least subconsciously. This is the change that will cut out the root of the problem, so that the weeds do not grow anymore. We have used our minds to change our outer environment to suit our desires and dreams, to create the world we live in today. Now, we have to use our minds to change our inner-environment; we need to use the truth to overcome our own minds. We must replace deception with truth. Change starts with us, as our world is just a reflection of us.

At the end of your inauguration speech, you quoted George Washington when he said; “Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.” The common danger is our own selves, our own minds, and we have not walked forth to meet it. If we do not, there will be no future generations to thank us for our hardships. We need to take the next step in evolution; it is no one’s responsibility but our own.

Go to www.truthcontest.com and read either The Present or The Present (with religion) to take a step forward in your spiritual evolution. The book shows us how we can create a Heaven on Earth by embracing truth, freedom, justice, prosperity, and God/Life, and by creating win-win situations with our investments.

Your friends and fellow Americans,
.....

Energy

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" -Mark Twain

And so you're sitting there

and you're wondering for how long??

HOW LONG? Until I do this or that..

Until I get up,

go to the refrigerator,

eat, HOW LONG??

And it will take you

a second to get up

and a minute to be at the fridge

and maybe a half hour to eat.

And you're all caught up in yourself,

in your thoughts.

YOU WANT.. MORE ENERGY

And what is this ENERGY?

Well, your science teacher talked about:

-solids (real close particles)

-liquids (spread out somewhat particles)

-gases (farrr apart particles)

... and you sort of took it in ...

sort of comprehended it,

in that you

told yourself in words > pictures > symbols > gibberish

You told yourself,

some things (hard ones) are solid

and some things (watery ones) are liquids

and some things (hard to grasp, but there ones) are gases.

But you never really thought about what it is they were.

You just sort of took them in as WORDS:

S O L I D S

L I Q U I D S

G A S E S

and were done with it. Easy enough. Said and done.

And you closed the book. The problem is,

the book never closes. You can't close a book that's always

open...

And in that book is your

life...

that thing that's just sort of

going on around you all the time,

just sort of

HAPPENING

You know, it kind of just flows from

one scene

to the next.

Like you go the refrigerator, and then

to the table,

and then back to another room,

and so on.

And during that time you're interacting

with all sorts of things

that you've turned into WORDS,,,

SYMBOLS.

Because you have to turn things into

SYMBOLS to make sense of them.

Because if things didn't make sense

you'd go insane,

at least that's what

ma

and

pa

and teacher

said

(aka the sane ones).

Why? Easy,

because they too

were in your position:

kind of like thrown here,

and then, all confused,

started trying to make

sense of it all,

trying to grasp it

permanently.

But the problem is:

things aren't permanent.

Things are impermanent.

Everything is. Even "you."

Even the Earth and the Sun

and the Solar System are going

to be gone someday.

But they're not going to really

be gone...

They're just going to change,

sort of like you will, sort of like

an apple will when it starts to rot.

You see, there are things HAPPENING.

All around you stuff's HAPPENING.

In your physical reality

and in your mind

things are HAPPENING,

things are CHANGING.

Just look at your hand.

It used to be a lot smaller

when you were younger.

And that's the problem, too.

The fact that

younger

is just a word.

Created by someone just

as confused,

just as thrown into it,

just as human.

A similar someone from a long time ago

that passed that word down

to your

ma

and your

pa

and your teachers.

Who passed it down to you.

They were all trying to make sense of it all,

and so, too, are you. And so those words

really helped a lot,

they gave you some sort of

security.

Some peace of mind.

Because they wanted to forget that

they didn't know,

just like you want to forget that

you don't know.

They wanted to live in those symbols of security.

But when you come down to the nitty-gritty

everything is...

ENERGY.

It really is that simple.

Nothing really dies, or is born, or lives...

things just are...

ENERGY.

It's your mind that tells you different.

It's your mind that attached

ideas

words

symbols

semblance

to things...

to ENERGY.

In reality it's just those forms...

it's those solids, liquids, and gases

except not in the textbook sense...

because

"solids" aren't really solids

"liquids" aren't really liquids

"gases" aren't really gases...

they're just

forms of changing energy.

Not to sound crazy...

I mean, really,

it is that simple.

This is clear cut.

It's undeniable.

It's all around you

and you're trying to make sense of it

because it frustrates you

that you don't know

completely, because you

have a mind that wants to

know, know, know.

Completely.

But only through

surrender

will you find contentment,

only when you

are satisfied with going up to the mountain and shouting:

I DON'T KNOW!

will you ever really be...

satisfied.

Because as long as you're holding on to

those symbols

those ideas

those notions

those thoughts that tell you

you are "you"

and you are "here,"

and as long as you put

specifications and all that

jazz on those heres and those yous,

you're not going to see

the full picture,

you're going to be caught up in:

interpretation

And when you're interpreting things

you're getting it

all wrong.

You're interpretation must come through your being,

your being can't come through your interpretation.

You have to realize that you don't die

you just change.

Death is a word,

death is an absence.

An absence from the vantage point

of people wandering around on Earth

in the vast microcosm of the Universe.

You change,

you don't die.

It's all about change.

As David Bowie says,

"the s~t~r~e~a~m of warm impermanence"

That's what it's all about.

You're in the stream,

a stream that just keeps going...

it never stops...

the water's always changing,

the direction's always changing,

the perspective is always changing...

But it doesn't just stop flowing.

Things don't just come to an end,

they change.

When you get frostbite

it's not like a second goes by

and you suddenly have frostbite.

It takes awhile for that energy

to get all befungled and change around.

And through those changes,

something happens.

Something's... HAPPENING.

And eventually what ever it is that's frostbitten

falls off...

and decays...

and the energy slowly

dribbles away

into the pool of energy,

into the...

s~t~r~e~a~m.

And that energy gets a new spot,

a new perspective,

a new vantage point...

it falls into the form of

something else.

So you don't really get old.

It's just that all that energy's

been moving around in that form

for so long that changes begin to happen;

changes in energy...

and eventually all that friction and such

causes that energy to want a new perspective,

to be relieved... to reach universal equilibrium,

float downstream.

If things are always changing,

if things always want to flow,

then they're going to.

That's just how it is.

That's how it works.

You don't know what it is,

but you know it works.

It's working right now.

And if things always change

and want to

then you have to accept it.

You can't live your life trusting

labels and symbols

because they're just...

symbols and labels.

They're not reliable.

You can use them,

but you can't let them use you.

The day you starting thinking

a tree is actually a TREE

you're in trouble.

You have to realize that

the TREE is just

energy in form.

Energy in this great big circus.

That all those words and jibber jabber are unreliable.

You have to...

SURRENDER...

ALL that you THINK you KNOW

You have to go back to that child-like state,

where things just come at you

and you accept them

as they are.

You can use those words, but...

---

you still have to surrender

---

never take them seriously.

See them as a way to communicate,

not a way to make sense of it.

You can't make sense of it.

And when you surrender, you'll realize that.

It's simple.

You have to accept the fact

you've got

60, 70, 80, maybe 90 years at most

and move on

with the stream.

As John Lennon said,

"Yes is the answer" - "Yes is surrender" - "You've got to let it go"

When you let it go,

your mind let's go of you,

and you are free to swim down the stream.

That's what it's all about.

And when you realize you're free,

when you realize you have that ability,

you realize that all the

bad, negative, craziness is all

created by you and like minds...

you realize that amid all that

mind chitter chatter,

the trees still blow and the Earth still spins

REGARDLESS.

REGARD LESS.

Regard: (v) consider or think of (someone or something) in a specific way

REGARD LESS

You have to realize that every specific state ends...

but the overall thing,

the overall ENERGY,

does not.

The Universe was created by a big burst of ENERGY

that expanded and expanded and expanded and is

Expanding

still.

And as it expands, it changes shape, and keeps changing and changing

again and again.

And it's eventually all going to fold back up on itself and

start over, etc., etc., etc.

It's why the flowers bloom again...

and why when great grandfather dies,

life continues... a baby is born, and...

life continues... and that baby becomes a grandfather... or an old man...

and...

life continues...

But you don't continue as "you,"

you change form.

You're just energy.

This isn't some

far out bull shit...

it's how things work.

You literally feed energy to yourself to stay in this state...

and when the ENERGY that makes up YOU is all worn out...

it goes

elsewhere.

It changes.

Things are CHANGING,

HAPPENING.

ENERGY is just all over the place...

wanting to be all sorts of things...

wanting to interact...

wanting to move...

wanting to dance with joy...

ENERGY is the epitome of

LIFE.

And ENERGY is FIXED.

It can't be created or destroyed.

It just is,

sort of like you just are.

Kind of like when you're really happy

or really living you start to dance around...

When a kid's happy he starts to

jump with joy.

Energy is just sort of dancing around

all over the place.

And you're a part of it,

you are it.

It might seem hard to grasp, because

you've been looking at things

as something other than energy,

but everything is energy

and energy is more than just a word.

When your fingers type you lose energy

so you have to eat/get/take more of it...

you take it from other living things...

or you get it from compounds like coffee...

Compounds that were from things that were once living...

A coffee bean was once alive...

and when you steam it,

you're taking it's stored

ENERGY

and using it

YOURSELF.

It got it's energy from the sun and then it was picked

and dried,

and then stuck in water - one of the purest things around -

and drunk by you for ENERGY.

Energy is just passed around

from one thing to the next.

We're all sharing energy.

We all want it a lot, and a lot of it. And that's where most of the problems arise -

from wanting energy.

All things are done in the pursuit of life energy.

So if we were to all surrender and take it as it comes,

take that energy when we can get it

and not ask for more,

then we'd be in a lot better shape.

If we just shared the energy wealth a little, people would be a whole lot happier.

They'd also be a lot more content if they stopped

trying to understand ENERGY...

if they stopped making up names for it

and stories about how it got here and instead

just:

floated with the s~t~r~e~a~m like a riverboat.

Stop trying to paddle. Just let the river take you.

Stop trying to move faster down the river

and stop trying to stay in one spot.

Stop resisting and stop wanting. In other words,

SURRENDER.

It is the only way to happiness.

Embrace the energy,

but give it always.

Love the energy,

but never understand it.

Seek the energy,

but know it is unknowable.

And most importantly,

let it take you