January 8, 2009
- Lightspeed -
Holy shit, I think that’s it! With the help of speedbird’s recent comment, I think we may be on to something big here. Speedbird says:
Einstein says we’re all moving at the speed of light all the time – it’s just that if we stay still in space, we move at the speed of light through time. Things that move in space travel more slowly through time.
THAT is the reason for the illusory quality of all things. EVERYTHING is moving through time at the speed of light. Enlightenment is the actual realization and experience of that, which requires thought to be brought to a speed faster than light.
The second noble truth of Buddha is “the origin of suffering is attachment”. This is why. Things (including your thoughts) are already going at lightspeed, through time. Grapsing just slows you down. Now this might be good, if you are aware of what doing, because it could work the same way as a rudder on a boat, but if you’re not aware of which rudders your grasping onto, you’re going to crash your boat! And that causes suffering.
So we have to slow our minds until our thoughts are not moving at all in space, and we are able to be aware of our alreadt at-the-speed-of-light-movement through time-space. Sitting at that level, we then encounter “god”, the absolute, eternity, or, as we’ve been calling it here, a 5th dimensional perspective, where time is spread out around you and can be interacted within as a space.
The Sufi’s (and probably the gnostics too, although I can’t find anything on them right now. I know the gnostics had something about “trampling your clothing underfoot” or something like that) considered this to be dying before you die.
Except we have to stop thinking of it as if the material world is a prison which our “enlightened immortal souls” are trapped in. We’re not-yet-but-almost those enlightened immortal souls. We are matter raised to the point of connection with God!
These bodies are prisons, they’re chrysalises, and they only feel like prisons in the moments that we break out of them.
For me, this creates an intellectual understanding of enlightenment. Not that any of this science is exact, of course (it’s all metaphors based on theories anyway!), just that it’s an idea which, when held in the mind, allows for both stillness and a striving. It explains the fact that we are both enlightened and not enlightened at the same time.
We must bring ourselves to be able to consciously allow the universe to move us until we can become aware of its movement. Cause it’s going to move you anyway!
Comment by Ian — January 8, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Einstein was brainy. :-)
One of the massive unresolved questions of science is: /why/ are we moving through time, and why does it appear to have a direction? (Freaks me out thinking about it)
Comment by speedbird — January 9, 2009 @ 4:09 am
If conscious observers are the key to mixing the quantum with the relative, than I would guess that the “why” of it all is simply to allow for conscious choice.
More and more, better and better choices, toward whatever we want. Or think is best, depending on your proclivities.
Comment by Ian — January 9, 2009 @ 3:57 pm