Dear Heiko

I liked the story very much. But when I read the final questions, which overtly restated what was implicit in the story, they pulled me of the thoughts the story induced, so I can't respond, though I'd like to.

love, Heath

nice story...nice fairy tale...i guess bushman and company are living in a fantasy world...too...or they'd grow some balls and embed...like the pawns (soldiers) want them to...ah...those mad, ball-less, chickenshit dreamers...and btw, where are the three bushwhacking, confused amigos, been real quiet lately? MIA again? damn!

Dear heiko

You are right-nothing is as it appears to be.But for this realisation to sink in,sometimes whole life falls short.Because it is really difficult to 'rise' above the obvious, only a few of us humans have ever been able to rise anywhere near to the spiritual standards required to experience the ultimate i.e god.

The more we tell ourselves "it is really difficult to rise above the obvious", the more difficult we make it. But this realization - that life is what it is, and all meaning is projected onto life by us - can be as simple and effortless as any other cognitive change we make. No ego in that statement, just an observation. Stephen Covey tells a story that illustrates it perfectly for me (and I paraphrase here):

One weekend, the usual low buzz on a suburban train is suddenly disturbed by four kids who get on at a particular station. Their father sinks into a seat, seemingly lost in his own world, while the kids are raising a din and being generally rambunctious and unruly. A nearby passenger, whose annoyance rises to boiling point, approaches the dad and with what he feels is admirable restraint, requests him to control his boys. The dad comes out of his reverie, and slowly says "Huh? Yes, I suppose I should. You see, we just came from the hospital where their mother died, and I guess we're all out of sorts".

Imagine the instantaneous transformation in attitude that passenger must have had on receiving that bit of information. There was no struggle, no pain, no arduous path from annoyance to compassion, judgement to empathy.

"Nothing is as it appears to be" ~Above

Nothing is everything before it takes form. So I think nothing is "more" than it appears to be. It appears to be Nothing but it is really everything.

The other question is does it really "appear" since it is already there by default?

Another question is can it "Be"? I don't think nothing can be, it requires "something" to exist so that it may also exist. That in fact BEing is the verb and Nothing is the noun and when combined they create an effect which we call “things”.

The state of no thing, is most likened to a void, however there are unseen things operating in a void.

So his here is the big kicker that defies the laws of logic right before our very eyes.

"Nothing is not as it appears to be"

And

“Nothing is as it appears to be”

Say exactly the same thing!

How is this possible? Is this a glitch in the Matrix or a clue to it’s inner workings?

What we should note is that this phrase is actually represents a wave state, having two meanings and it is not until your brain collapses it into a thought particle and polarizes it's meaning that it actually becomes defined.

So like God all things are beyond definition until Being collapses the waves, much like a beach, does the waves in the ocean. So maybe the brain mind is like a beach, and thoughts are waves, which is where we get the term Beach head.

Obviously God cannot be collapsed, so this tells us something about what God is, but does not define God because God is beyond all definition other than articulating that is has a verbal state of Being. Being cannot can also not be collapsed which means these two things have the same attribute.

God an being cannot be polarized which means God cannot be light, since this can be polarized. God may actually be darkness, which many of us associate with Nothing. But one might suddenly realize that God being is darkness and God doing is light. Here again we have Being both noun and verb, which creates things and are the opposite of Nothing, although it is really all the same thing.

As you read this new dendrites are forming, the question is what is orchestrating the molecules? Obviously it must be intelligence otherwise they would create a random formation. If they did that your brain would not work. Science would probably steer us to the direction of something of an electromagnetic nature that carries intelligence is doing it.

From Wikipedia
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The electromagnetic field extends indefinitely throughout space and describes the electromagnetic interaction. It is one of the four fundamental forces of nature (the others are gravitation, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction).
From a classical point of view, the electromagnetic field can be regarded as a smooth, continuous field, propagated in a wavelike manner, whereas from a quantum mechanical point of view, the field can be viewed as being composed of photons.
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Yet photons have a dual nature, both particle and wave. Since the mind is and produces electromagnetic waves we can see that reading the definition above that it’s field extends indefinitely throughout space capable of electromagnetic interaction with virtual particles unseen, collapsing them into things that are seen.

If you are feeling confused it is because the molecules producing new dendrites are not being orchestrated due to a lack of well formed embedded intelligence in the electromagnetic field. Which means your brain lacks the necessary preexisting dendrite framework. So you might want to look up each term and concept above individually and program / hardwire it into your brain, so that you have the foundation to build the more elaborate structure on top of it ending the confusion, which is really the inability to complete the required circuits.

IN SUMMARY

“It” works both ways as object and observer yet it is really the same thing.

And

Great parable and insight above regarding blessing and misfortune, one to convey to all.

All is good, even though we might not always like it.

The moral of the story is.

The same thing can be different.

True this was just a mental exercise, a tough workout for most, but you will only grow stronger. You may be feeling mental fatigue, if so sleep (you are feeling very very sleepy now) and return to the source from which you came and you will be all energized to return to The Field of play.

the weird guy speaketh!

I have heard variants of this story before, and it is always amazing. It reminds me of the old notion of "the gift wrapped in shit"--a concept from which I have had constantly to learn in my own life. The disasters inevitably turn out to bring with them important lessons for the future.

I have heard variants of this story before, and it is always amazing. It reminds me of the old notion of "the gift wrapped in shit"--a concept from which I have had constantly to learn in my own life. The disasters inevitably turn out to bring with them important lessons for the future.

thank you Heiko for sharing, this will be our Friday Family dinner story...interestingly true!

Cinda

I was told this same story but with a different ending - in which the wise farmer said, "who can know what is good and what is bad?"

I don't necessarily understand this particular moral - that this story illustrates that life has meaning beyond the surface. I don't believe that "blessings" or "misfortunes" happen to people through intelligent cosmic (or holy) intention for some purpose (for example, to teach a spiritual lesson.) In many ways we create both of them for ourselves by the way we digest our lives.

For me this story is really a lesson in not judging, and acceptance. Normally when the average person thinks "don't judge" It boils down to "don't be so critical of other people" or something similar. What about when something bad happens in our lives? How often do we tell ourselves "Don't judge this situation!" How often are we able to just accept when quite bad things befall us? How often do we get excited about perceived blessings - "I got the job! Hurray!" only to find that it's not such a blessing after all... "The hours at work are wrecking my relationships!" (or something similar.)

Hmm... where am I going with this. Well, I think grief and celebration are a natural part of being human - So I'd personally tend not to suspend either from my life - or try to temper my joys and sorrows so much that I become detached from life. Though I certainly it's nice to have the perspective that things can still always pan out for the better.