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The purpose of life is to be absorbed in spirit.
Spirit is an undefinable reality that exists within us, around us and beyond us. Spirit is the essence of all existence. When we see life or the world, time, matter and experience, we feel that life is solid, that it's visceral, that it has meaning. In the world of matter we're born, we grow, develop, decay, decline and die. In this world that's all there is - growth, maturation, decay and death. We are all on the wheel of time. Time gives us birth, time gives us death and time gives us rebirth.
There is a way beyond time, beyond birth, beyond death and rebirth. The way is not to avoid birth, death and rebirth. The way is not to avoid pleasure and pain, hope and sorrow, sadness and frustration. The way is not to accept nor is it to reject. The way is to become without becoming, to act without reason, without hope, without disbelief, without antagonism. The way is to be absorbed, to be absorbed in eternity itself. Not just to think of God or see God or feel God or even to be God, but to be absorbed, to enter into that endless ocean we call nirvana, to be absorbed, to return to the source, to become immortality itself.
Absorption always exists, always has existed and always will exist. Absorption is not so much a state of mind or being as it is a clear perception of reality. Reality comes in many forms: people, places, histories, pasts, presents, futures, civilizations, planets, universes, lokas, deities. Absorption does not negate any of these things. Spiritual absorption is not an ending nor is it exactly a beginning. It's simply the integration of that which is and that which is not. You are and at the same time you are not. You are this moment, but you're not the next. You are this week, but you're not next week. You are this life, this moment, yet you're trapped in time.
You think of the future. You live for the future, planning, thinking, evaluating, always hoping that if everything is properly aligned it will all work out. But you must understand, in this world, in this loka, in this physical dimension, on this earth, in this world of time and change, nothing lasts. Everything here is transitory. Your life will end; this world will end. Nothing lasts. The nature of this world is dissolution and transformation. To feel that you can accomplish something that will last is wrong. Nothing lasts. Nor is that wrong, it's not supposed to. This world is eternity as all worlds are eternity. Eternity takes many shapes and forms but ultimately eternity is formless, meaning it can adapt any form and yet at the same time its essence remains beyond form.
One must accept the transitory nature of all things and what's more, absolutely delight in them. God does everything perfectly, eternity does everything perfectly. Nirvana is perfect, all things are perfect, except that human beings, and other beings, sometimes feel that things are not perfect. We try and make something into something that it is not and then we suffer. We suffer because we become attached to friends, to places, to things, to ideas and ideals. There's nothing wrong with friends or places or things or ideas or ideals. All exist suspended invisibly by eternity itself, but for us, in our confusion, to mistake them for something they are not is only to enter into the world of disappointment.
To think that our car will last forever, no matter how much we love it, is foolish. It will only cause us suffering when it changes its current form. To think that people we love will stay the same is foolish because people change. To think that our own ideas are important is foolish. Ideas are not important. People are not important. Places are not important. Time is not important. Nothing and everything has little or no importance. All that matters is eternity. Eternity is God; God is the world, the places, the people, the times, the events. God is existence and nonexistence. It cannot be reasoned, but it can be easily understood.
Be absorbed. Absorb yourself in eternity. Don't worry about this world. Don't worry about your bank account, don't worry about your friends or your family, don't worry about your job, don't worry about your health, don't worry about worry, don't worry at all. Be absorbed. When you think of the future, when you plan, when you think of the past, when you regret, you lose yourself in the finite, you lock yourself into a cage from which there is no escape. The cage is the human web of consciousness. Be absorbed.
To try and leave this world, to try and enter onto the wheel of karma, to spin on it and then to leave is impossible. That which exists must always exist. That which is born must die. So you can't escape from rebirth, you can't escape from pain and suffering and sorrow. There is no way out because you exist. And if you exist, you must accept the conditions of existence: birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. To leave this world is impossible in a sense, because this world is all worlds. Wherever you go you take yourself with you. Wherever you go, if you exist, you take birth, growth, maturation, decay and death with you. These conditions exist in all worlds.
Be absorbed. When you are absorbed there is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. It's not that these things don't exist. When you are fully absorbed in spirit, when you attain liberation, self-realization, satori, when you merge with nirvana, it's not that the worlds and the times and the places and the loves and the cares don't exist - we just don't see them. In this world we see the world, in the dream we see the dream, but when the dream fades, when we awaken from the dream, the dream soon is gone, we forget. The worst nightmare fades, the worst pain goes away. The most horrible suffering recedes. Even the greatest joys vanish. For this world, my friend, is but a dream. This life is but a dream. All of this that we see and even that which is unseen is but a dream of God's, a dream of nirvana, of endless light.
To be absorbed is to awaken from the dream of life and death and rebirth. To be absorbed is not to go against the flow nor to go with it, nor to become the flow. It is to be absorbed. To be absorbed in nirvana is perfect perfection, beyond words, beyond reason, beyond remorse. Be absorbed at every moment. Be absorbed in meditation, be absorbed at work, be absorbed with your friends, your families, your loves, your cares, your frustrations. Do not attempt to leave this world because there is no world. There is no leaving, there is no coming, there is no self. These are but ideas in the mind of God.
Be absorbed. Be absorbed in perfect perfection, in perfect immortality. Rest assured that eternity does all things perfectly and that you yourself are eternity. If I hold a candle to the sun the flame vanishes. The flame still exists, but it is not perceived. So when you are absorbed in spirit, when you think of God, of spiritual teachers, of the highest precepts of existence, constantly, then you will not see the suffering or sorrow of this or any world. You will not see frustration. You will not see death.
This is not a narcotic. This is not a simple forgetting. Rather it is a right perception of the nature of existence. Existence is seamless and perfect. Be absorbed in nirvana. Let go of this world. Don't focus on it so much. In this world we see nothing but news. We hear nothing but views. We listen but we don't hear. We see but we don't view. We have forgotten the secret of secrets - immortality is all that exists. Be absorbed and cut this world away. Cut all worlds away. Throw away desire and hope, love and hate. Be absorbed beyond all. Think only of that which is the ultimate good. It is not the condition of your life or of your body or of your mind that matters but the condition of your spirit, and your spirit is perfect. Be absorbed.
Be absorbed only in immortality. Don't try and be something that you are not. Don't try and be anything that you are. Don't try at all. Be absorbed. Most people feel that one day they will attain, one day they will give, one day they will be - these are idle dreams and fantasies. These things never come to be because we are not. We are not separate individuals in the flow of existence. We are not even existence, which is but a dream. Be absorbed.
Be absorbed in God and light. Settle for nothing else. Tomorrow does not exist. Yesterday does not exist. Be absorbed in this moment and in this moment see eternity. Stop procrastinating, stop feeling that tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow you will have an opportunity to realize God, to be what you've always wanted to be. This is but another illusion. Now, let go. Let go of your body, let go of the world, let go of your loves and your hates and your desires. Let go of your ego, let go of your bondage, your frustration, your happiness, your dreams, your cares because there is no perfection in them. There is no peace in them; they are all transitory. You are immortal consciousness caught up in a transitory world.
Be absorbed. Focus not on this one simple world, but on all of eternity. Turn your attention allwhere and be absorbed. Be absorbed in God consciousness, in perfect perfection. There is nothing else except idle dreams and fantasies.
Be absorbed. Know that within you is truth and light, but truth and light is not exactly as you might think. Be absorbed. Allow immortality, allow eternity and allow mortality. Put up with your silly self, put up with your frustrations and your illusions. You are quite human and you are supposed to be. You are quite immortal and you are supposed to be. You are really neither. All is a play of existence, world upon world, scene upon scene. The play goes on forever. We wake up in one lifetime and we play a role. We wake up in another lifetime and we play another role. We wake up forgetting, gradually remembering and then we fall asleep again, and we dream another dream of immortality.
Be absorbed. Accept the illusions of life without criticizing them. Meditate in stillness. Still your mind each morning and each evening when you meditate. Still your heart during the day. Don't give yourself to others. Give yourself only to the God in others, to the immortal perfection in others. Don't think of people, think of truth and love. If you see truth and love in people, then think of truth and love in people, but don't think of people because they are transitory, they do not last. They are but shadows. Love light. Light is your real friend. Light will never ever fail you. All people, places and conditions of this world will come and go, but light will always be with you. Stay with light and love light.
Be unafraid of all. There is nothing to fear. Death is but a mere tickle. Life is the same. Immortality is all that exists. Listen to these words and be absorbed. Meditate with your eyes closed. Release yourself, give your life away to God, to eternity. Don't try and live it for yourself anymore, you've tried that and it only ends in limitation and frustration.
Be absorbed. Allow life to be you. Enjoy the moment, enjoy this world. Enjoy everything and enjoy nothing - nothing being immortal consciousness, nothing being eternal awareness. Be absorbed. Love unconditionally all, but save your deepest love for eternity. Think of God at every moment because every moment is God. Think of truth at every moment, for every moment is truth. There are no eternal rewards. There is only eternity itself, matchless, perfect and shining, your real nature.
Be absorbed. Lose your mind, your heart, your being in the ecstasy of existence. The fathomless ecstasy of nirvana, beyond feeling, beyond nonfeeling, beyond self and nonself is nirvana, the shining void, endless, perfect, has always existed and will always exist - the fabric of reality itself sewn into different forms and patterns, yet beyond all forms and patterns. All worlds spring forth from nirvana, all worlds return unto it. The self itself is but a projection of nirvana; we are all projections of nirvana. There is nothing but nirvana, nirvana being immortal consciousness. Be absorbed.
Be absorbed in that which you are and that which you are not. Don't fight, don't struggle. Be absorbed instead, because if you fight and struggle you will either win or lose and be satisfied with neither. Be absorbed. It is the way between life and death, the way between success and failure. It is only in absorption that true peace will come, that true rest will come, that real spiritual liberation occurs - not an egotistical serving of others, not an egotistical loving of others, not an egotistical knowing - be absorbed in immortality itself. There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.
Enjoy the transitory but know that it is transitory, a mere reflection of the eternal. Enjoy the beauty of the children's pageant, but realize that the children go away. The curtain closes, the auditorium empties and you are alone, alone with your own immortal reality. Watch your self-form appear and disappear in the maya. Know that the maya, the illusion, is God too.
Don't condemn. Be absorbed. Don't judge. Be absorbed. Don't judge your judgment. Be absorbed. Be absorbed in eternal perfect awareness. Be absorbed.
There is weather in the world. So there is weather in immortality. Weather takes many forms. Where does it come from and to where does it return? This is your concern, not the weather. There are vibratory patterns in the subtle-physical world. There are winds of dharma, just as there are winds in the skies of this world, and in all worlds the wind of Shiva blows, the transforming energy of existence moves all the worlds and all the conditions of maya. Be not concerned with weather; be not concerned with transformation. Rather, know that which is transformation, that which is the cause of all that transforms, that which is behind the surface. Be absorbed in that, your real nature.
This transitory body, this transitory personality, are not yours. They are but donations from eternity. Enjoy them while they last, but be absorbed. Remember, you are the master of all conditions of this and all other worlds. You are the mistress of immortality. Stop trying, stop giving, stop loving. Do not deceive yourself, it is not you who try or give or who love. Be absorbed. These ideas, no matter how wonderful and good, only bind you. Release them all and be absorbed. Become a slave of immortality. Do the bidding of God. Fight if you must against God, but know that God ultimately always wins. Your higher self always wins.
Be absorbed. Be a mistress of eternity. Eternity is your lover. It comes and awakens you. It challenges you. It asks things of you. Do what it will. Be a loving mistress, be passive, watch the passing of generations, the births, the deaths, the transmutations and be unaffected. Feel love, feel sorrow, feel joy, live fully, but feel none of these things as you feel them. Watch with the eye of the sage, with the eye of intuition and see beyond this physical plane, beyond all planes. Enjoy your transitory nature; be absorbed. Look deep within, look far beyond, but remember it is not you who are seeing through your eyes, not as you know yourself to be. Fathom that, plumb that, feel that.
Be absorbed. No more promises, no more good intentions, no more resolutions, only absorption. Give this world up and yet love it and serve it fully. Give up your family, your friends and yourself, but stay with them all. Be absorbed. Forget success and failure, yet try to be successful and don't mind failure.
Be absorbed. Learn the lessons of immortality, be they difficult or be they easy, with an even mind. This evenness of temperament will come through your meditation; through directing yourself to a realized spiritual teacher who is absorbed and who will channel the light of the dharma to you; by meditating on the dharma, on the gods and goddesses, on the self, on the personal or impersonal aspects of God, on nirvana. Be absorbed. Spend every waking moment and every sleeping moment enjoying the play of immortality.
Be yourself. Try not to be someone else. Be that which is, allow yourself the freedom to express yourself in whatever way you need to. It's not what you do that matters, it's not what you say. There is nothing that is not holy or spiritual; be absorbed. Be beyond definition and categorization. Allow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument, And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence that it knows not even that it is absorbed.
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