Whoa, What Just Happened
My favorite guru (he doesn’t actually exist) once told me,
“It’s all you playing with yourself.”
And I felt that. Playing with myself? What could be better?
What a grand opportunity. And the pleasure! My God!
Now hold on for a second...
What if it actually was all you playing with yourself?
Everything, every thought, every book, every countertop, every thing you can imagine, all you in various expressions, playing with itself, as a form of dance, a song, some act of creation, some act of delight, some act of wonder? Some act of play?
What if it was that?
What if it is?
What do they say the enlightened view of life is?
“Is”
That’s the point, m8. You can drop all the stuff, all the concepts, all the words and descriptions like “What do they say the enlightened view of life...” because it’s all an act, an expression of curiosity, nothing definite, nothing determinate.
When you drop the stuff, which is what the “gurus” call “letting go,” what is left is what is. That is what enlightenment “is.”
There is no enlightenment. There is no guru. It’s all the same thing, it’s all from the same source, it’s all you, dancing with infinity, playing with yourself.
It’s what we call “God.”
And of course we get guided back to our truest form by other forms of ourselves that have picked up on the song. Dancing is fun! Join the party. Everything you need is already within you because you are it, now come play from unimagined ecstasy, freedom, and love. That’s what Jesus taught.
“Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”
“There is light within a man of light, and he lights the whole world.”
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” That one will trip people up. Many believe that the “I” Jesus is referring to is the man-body of Jesus, the one who died on the cross.
The “I” Jesus refers to is the oneness, the “Son of God,” the “Son” in the Holy Trinity of “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” that which is born from God the Father, that which is everything, including you.
Jesus’ mission was and is to show you that you are the Son of God and to demonstrate and offer the Divinity that comes with that, carried out and evidenced by the fact that he is just like you, a human being, and yet he is one with the Father, just like you are.
“I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.”
“That they may be one, as we are one.”
If Jesus were claiming exclusivity, as if his man-body was the only one, that would be blasphemous. It was actually this original misconception from others, that Jesus was claiming exclusivity as and with his man-body and his man-body only, that got him hung on the cross, which is ironically the same misconception religions have today.
Instead, it’s an invitation.
Jesus did not identify as the man-body that died, because he knew that wasn’t his true nature. Jesus is Christ, and Christ is eternal. Christ is not a person in time, Christ is the timeless source of God expressing through a person, through Jesus, through you, through all things. Christ is the life animating all forms.
Jesus never died, because He is you, “I am in you,” and “All mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.” And because Jesus is Christ, and He is you, you are Christ. And what is said about Christ?
“Christ is all and in all.”
It’s all the same thing. It’s all you. And if you are every thing, you are no thing. You see how it’s all tied together?
That’s because it is.
Given the freedom and ability of complete play, no stakes, nothing that gives you anything that you don’t already have, pure possibility, pure “oooh I wonder...” what would you like to do?
That’s what God is doing right now.
Merry Christmas!