Sunday, June 19, 2011

Have a Heart

Can you Prove that God Exists?

Some scientists believe that God exists, some don't. Scientists have not proven that God exists or "not exists" via any applicable scientific method, except for one scientist who apparently proved the existence of God, but whose math was way beyond my ability to comprehend; it might have been Kurt Godel but don't quote that, it's too long ago, I can't remember who it was. Google it if you want to know.

NB: yes, it was Kurt Godel. I looked it up out of curiosity. See: Godel's ontological proof

Still, scientists love to argue with each other about the applicability of each other's methods and whatever else might help their own case, each doing their best to prove the improbability of each other's work.

However, the fact that nobody has conclusively used scientific method to prove the existence of God does not mean that God doesn't exist. It merely evokes the possibility the God lies beyod the scope of current scientific method.

I have a friend who's atheistic. He like the ideas of Spinoza who's modus operandi is to poo poo the existence of everything that is not scientifically proven (I wonder if Spinoza could prove his own existence). I tried to explain to my friend that God is not something/someone that can be understood with the mind. Whilst the mind can be useful, in part, to lead us to an understanding of God, ultimately, God can only be understood by the heart.

When the heart is included in scientific method, existence, knowledge and joy all exist within each other. Understanding existence gives one the platform required to understand knowledge (consciousness), and understanding knowledge permits the understanding (experience) of bliss.

Everything exists within bliss, or joy. Joy contains everything else, which exists as a subset, not different from joy, but included within it.

God is everything and God is love are not mutually exclusive statements, and love is so very personal.

Those who are not very aware of it take little notice of consciousness and joy, living as they do within a rather impersonal, materialistic mindset.

Thus we define the mentality of scientific method, which, excluding almost everything of value, needs to take a couple of quantam leaps itself and utilise ALL that's available, especially joy.

Otherwise, science can merely delve within the impersonal fraction of everything, merely a portion of the existence platform, and will never be able to conclusively understand anything since everything is personal.

I found it rather fascinating when I recently read that Stephen Hawking (theoretical physicist) recently mathematically proved that the universe has always existed, and that there never needed to be any original big bang.

Good one Stephen, I read that in the Bhagavad Gita more than 20 years ago. Still when scientists finally conclude their own limitations, God will give them the ability to understand.

Everything always exists because God always exists.

Some mind boggling, but not overly difficult physics from Nassim Haramein (theoretical physicist) also indicate that the smallest, scientifically conceviable distance, that of the wavelength of a photon, when cubed to form the smallest scientifically conceviable space (or volume) contains more energy than all of the mass in the entire universe.

It could be said that Nassim Haramein has defined the structure of the void. Amazing. And the void is impersonal. I can't wait till these guys get to analyzing the structure of joy.

After all, you are, yourself, a person, aren't you?
God is a person, you're a person. Hmmm!

Joy to all beings

How much What?

How is Love

Not what is love as much as "How is Love"?

Is love merely the absence of malice or is love more of a positive phenomenom, and not merely the negative of not-love?

This leads me to consider that without active participation, love cannot be said to exist. I mean an apple (or a brick for that matter) is not malicious but that doesn't mean an apple is love (not that it isn't, but that's another topic).

So for love to exist, our heart must actively participate. Like Neil Young said in A Man Needs a Maid, "To give a love, you gotta live a love. To live a love, you gotta be part of."

Thus we must be pro-active well wishers of those we love (and isn't that everyone according to their ability to accept love, which is the same as their ability to give love). And the more we associate with those who DO love the more we are able to love because it's so much easier to love someone who loves you. It's difficult to love someone who's always giving you a hard time (although it can be done if your love is strong enough).

Love, like a muscle, needs exercise.

How much love are you able to receive?

When you creatively give your kindness in every way that you possibly can then you are capable of receiving that same amount of love and interracting in a loving fashion with others, even with those who don't know the first thing about giving love. My dear Srila Gurudeva and lots of saints down through the ages have proven that this is true.

So, how is love? That's up to you, it's your choice. Look into your heart and find out.

How will you give love? That's up to you, it's your choice. Look into your heart and find out. After all everyone is a child of God, you can love them with all your heart even if you don't have any opportunity to interract with them.

So don't ask yourself "What is love?" Ask yourself "How is love?" Then, looking into your heart, utilise every opportunity to give love to whoever is nearby. Sometimes just letting people be who are are (who they think they are) is all that is necessary. Sometimes, people don't want to interact with you. Sometimes they do.

Give everything you've got to give and you'll always be able to give, even when it looks like there's nobody else there.

So, how is love? Let's find out.

Joy to all beings

Saturday, June 18, 2011

What's a problem

Anxiety is a problem

Being dead isn't a problem

Worrying about being dead ... now there's a problem

Joy to all beings

Claytons thinking

Sounds like a plan

If you think about it but don't do it
... it's called daydreaming

If you think about it but do do it
... it's called achievement

If you don't think about it but do it
... it's called stupidity

Some people might call this imprudence, others call it spontanious action.
Whatever you call it, it has a high probability of disaster occurring.

Joy to all beings