The Kaleidoscope Vortex

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This is gonna need some work. I'll repost it when I'm finished revising. Sorry, I keep hitting new plateau's of clarity, and when I reread the stuff I've written I can see problems in it.

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Maybe if the text doesn't tickle your fancy, then perhaps the title graphic will. 



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20. Paradox Logic
The paradox shows the flaw of the logical mind where it demonstrates there must be something there, yet the mind cannot define it. If there is a flaw to logic, could there therefore be a flaw in the paradox? A true paradox has no answer, and yet asks a question. Any answer to a paradox, thus, is its flaw. What does the observer look like? To come closer to the answer, you must first realize that you can only see one thing at a time, whether it's by your mind's eye, or by your physical eyes. Following from this truth, what does your mind's eye see when looking out through your physical eyes, and what do your physical eyes see when looking through your mind's eye? Your mind can't conceptualize the answer without using the mind's eye, and your physical eyes cannot see the answer either – if they could, you would be able to conceptualize it. The only way to know the answer is to see through neither way. How does one reach this existential asymptote? How does one become what one always is, when one believes one has to be anything other than that? Hold on to the center. Those who think they know cannot grasp this paradox logic because they cannot see without interpretation - they have a need to define everything and thus lose their grip on the center, because the center is indefinable, while yet it is present for all things. So, again, what does the observer look like? There must be an answer to this question, and yet all things must be separate from the observer in order to be seen. Look inside of yourself - the observer is the center, everywhere. It has no appearance, yet it must exist. In this paradox lies the primal identity - your true nature, the nature of God, and the Truth.

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21. The Dream of Time

The meaning of unconditional love is oneness, and unconditional love is the meaning of oneness. This is because they are, in truth, the same – where sameness is, there is no separation. The appearance of oneness is ineffable, and so is the feeling of unconditional love. The only difference between them is perception. When one becomes fully lucid in the dream of time, time's rules no longer hold one to its limits because one exists outside of time. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, yet in perception one may see action and reaction as unequal due to the time that separates action from reaction. In unconditional love, every action one may make brings only love. This is because one no longer exists within the illusion of time, thus action and reaction are made the same – and sameness is the nature of reality and unconditional love. Time is a dimension of mind, and does not exist in reality. Reality is the only place one can go when one awakens from a dream, and dreams exist only in one's mind. If one thinks one is in reality, it is that thought that keeps one from reality's true nature and keeps one asleep in the dream of time.   

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22. Illusions of Self

The true nature of selfhood lies within the mind and in the mind alone. As long as the mind is necessary, there is a perceived separation between observer and observed. The mind gives definition to the self, and yet can only do so within the imagination. Outside of the mind, the imagined self cannot exist, yet you must. Who You Really Are is not really a self at all, it is something utterly indefinable – something paradoxical. Unconditional love is the function and only true desire of Who You Really Are – any other functions or desires are attempts to balance the mind's displacement of love in the imagination, and yet all imbalances are but a result of letting go of the center.

The belief in separation is the foundation of all fear and pain. Its roots lie in the need to think, and the need to think is a result only of unawareness of The Truth. The Truth is purely objective, while the mind is purely subjective. This is because the mind exists as an internal reality, while The Truth exists as an external reality. Any attachment of meaning to the external reality is but a thought, and all the illusions of self with their fleeting desires and ulterior motives do but lead you astray from Who You Really Are and What You Really Want.

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23. Principle and Reason

God is in all that is, and all that is rests in God. God is the principle of unity and, in Truth, this principle is the answer to all paradoxes. What the mind cannot define cannot exist within it, and the answer to any paradox must be a reality. Reality, thus, cannot exist within the mind. In the knowledge of this is reason. The mind is necessary only in the dream of time, but those who think they know believe that time is reality and what logic proves must be The Truth. Logic depends upon the belief in separate things for it to mean anything, and time depends upon the belief of separate moments for it to mean anything. In the belief of separation there cannot be reason, because in Truth the mind cannot contain reality – reality must contain the mind. The denial of this is denial of The Truth, principle, and reason.

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24. The Advent of Truth

To those who think they know, wisdom and philosophy hold no practical value, and paradoxes have no worth. This is because they believe that whatever answer they are looking for must be something that the mind can comprehend. The mind cannot grasp something that applies to all situations the same, yet the only real answer is oneness, since it alone is real for all things - and it is only oneness that by its very nature is entirely inexplicable. To fear oneness is a symptom of being controlled by the ego because upon the appearance of oneness the ego vanishes. When the ego goes, so go all degrees, proofs, or meanings of separation. If you can make real the true nature of oneness in your life, then you must see only sameness as reality and all differentiation as illusion – you must abdicate all sense of knowledge and replace it with what is ineffable. The replacement of that sense of knowledge with the cognizance of the only Truth is the purpose for all wisdom. The worth of wisdom is revealed only upon the advent of Truth - and it is a pearl of great price indeed, for to come to an understanding of wisdom requires one to lose all one thinks one knows and all one thinks one is.

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25. Love and Wisdom

Love without wisdom is weak, while wisdom without love is foolishness. In Truth, the two are inseparable aspects of the same mystery, and only when the two become one can the mystery be made real. Separate, the two lose touch with The Truth and the grand mystery returns to the shrouded darkness that lies beyond all understanding. When love cannot recognize itself in all things, it is contained. When wisdom cannot sense the reality of its own understanding, it means nothing. The grand mystery is impossible to contain, and its meaning means everything for all things. In Truth, love and wisdom ultimately mean the same thing – and yet this thing means nothing to the mind because in Truth the mind cannot define reality. To the mind, love and wisdom must be separate: this is because their source is oneness, and oneness is impossible to the mind. While the mind believes they must be separate, in Truth when one is separate from the other it cannot be genuine. Thus to the mind, neither one can be real.

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26. Cosmic Vertigo

Sensing that one is on the verge of total oneness, one who has lost hold of The Truth fears the immanence of "non-existence" because one does not realize that the self which is afraid is an illusion. This fear is the result of covering The Truth with a false identity and no matter what that identity is it is but a façade. Identification with the picture cannot take away The Truth that the picture has no meaning in and of itself. The self may change, it may die, and it may be remade – this is not the nature of The Truth. Only in the utter and complete losing of self may one be born again into eternal life. The circle will keep one on its path until one becomes the center, and it is when one becomes the center that one becomes the origin of the circle. Thus it is said that the unmoved is the source of all movement.

A sphere of infinite radius has no center because it has no edge. How then does one grasp the center? To grasp the center, one must only grasp The Truth – and if there is no center, then there cannot be anything outside of it. What then is central to all things if they are separate? It must be nothing.

To jump headfirst into the abyss, lose yourself and fall right into place – this is the meaning of life. While the cosmic vertigo may be terrifying, if you don't get to the bottom of things you will never understand The Truth.
 
27. Zero

One becomes zero becomes one again ad infinitum. When will it stop and recognize itself for what it is? In the mind, oneness cannot exist – yet in oneness, the mind cannot exist. What then is the mind? It must be zero, and anything that is divided by zero in Truth is undefined. The mind defines reality by dividing it – there is no other way. Behind zero is all negativity, whilst all that is positive rests in front. Why is this? It is because the root of anything negative must be imaginary. The number line thus is symbolic of the apex of wisdom.

28. Versus Exodus

What is all encompassing can have no opposite, and what means the same for all things can have no equal. How can one learn that which cannot be defined? How can one see that which cannot be described? How does one know that which can exist only outside the mind? How does one start one's way to Mastery when there is nowhere to go? A leap of faith with the willingness to fall – this is all that is required.
Peace comes from stillness, mystery is answered by sameness. Listen in the silence, wait the eternal wait – in this way nothing is left undone within you.
 
29. Home

Home is where the heart is. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. No matter how splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself.

Come home...


30. Collapsing the Vortex

Meaningful concepts swirl about in your head, beckoning you forth to that which defies all explanation. If what is paradoxical is not nonsense, then what must it mean? The answer is simple, but not easy. What is paradoxical is The Truth and what is not paradoxical is a lie, because what is paradoxical is representative of the reality that cannot be defined. As long as you have need of definitions, you are asleep in the dream of time and the call to awaken may mean nothing to you.

So, how can you awaken? Thoughts must be transcended. To do this, you need to come into alignment with Truth, and to come into alignment with Truth you must reflect that which is Truth. Become whole within yourself – find love in yourself for the sake of love. When mind is balanced it ceases to exist. All perceptions of thoughts, expectations, desires, or knowing are imbalances because they are illusions of the self. If you think you know what oneness is, you don't – you can't. Just be here now, and watch what happens. What awaits you on the other side of your slumber is a peace which those who think they know will never be able to grasp and a love which holds all things in its embrace.

Obscure and obtuse the words may have been, pulling you under the kaleidoscope vortex. The colors and forms become meaningless when you submerge into the infinite depth of oneness, and the cruel masquerade ends its desperate dance. There the illusion of black and white and everything in between fades, and you are left with only Truth.

Darkness within darkness, the brightest light there is.