Friday, August 2, 2024
The root of suffering originates from thoughts along the lines of, “this should not be.” The root of fear comes from thinking you’re separate from that which makes all things possible. The extent of your acceptance of what is, and the extent of your acceptance that the universe cannot be absent from itself, is your measure of pain and fear.
A person who constantly thinks that things are wrong and unjustified are in constant pain – they cling to the concepts of absence. A person who accepts what is, is in the divine flow of truth. They are one in unconditional acceptance.
Even though God approached the void and declared, “Let there be light,” the void itself was never devoid of God. How can it be? In the beginning, Alpha and Omega estranged themselves. They turned a blind eye to each other. A fearful person hasn’t realized that the void is not unintelligent, not random, and not unfortunate – blind but certainly not vacant.
An enlightened being goes along with the game of Alpha hiding from Omega. Enlightenment knows that to seek is to hide and to hide is to seek. “Catch me if you can,” quips the Omega, but it states “as it was in the beginning is now and will be forever.” Omega can only go so far before the prodigal returns.
Like an accordion, the universe is stretched out of itself and is expanding into the void, which is itself. If Alpha and Omega are the Ultimate Reality, how can God be ignorant, absent, or surprised? Omega walks outward, back facing Alpha – expanding time and space into the likeness of itself, experiencing itself as if it was the first time. At the end of the song, the accordion contracts. Omega will once again face Alpha – just as it was in the beginning, where the day and the night are twins of illusion.