as stated, the problems of human existence is reduced to birth, old age,
disease and death…or so says the Buddha…
and we can certainly see the problems of existence caused by birth…but
we can also see something else caused by birth… love, charity,
hope, beauty, the fascination of life with life… curosity, treasures
beyond gold and silver but treasures of existence…the Buddha fails
to see this… he can only see the negative, suffering, old age, disease and death…
but life is more then just suffering and old age and disease and death…
life can be wonderous and life can be suffering and life can be diseased
and life can be more beautiful then one can imagine…….
so what are we to do? should we focus on the negative, birth,
old age, disease and death? or should we focus on the beauty,
the grace, the charm and allure of life… we can, by our choice
of vision or our choice of focus…see the positive or the negative of life…
but me, me personally, I see both sides of the same coin… life as a negative
and life as a positive… and we see once again, we hit that portion of our
program where we think two things are opposed to each other, opposite to
each other and then we find they are two sides of the same coin… and then
after some more reflection, we see that they are one and the same…
just as good and evil grow from two distinct and opposite sides to two sides
of the same coin to being the exact same thing……
there is no opposite good… and evil…… there is simply one and the same.
I wish I had a word in which to unify the two words, good… evil…
but that is where we are at… good and evil are the same…
just as mass and energy is the same……
I am a human being… mass and I am energy… I am convertible from
mass into energy and back again… just as any life form is…a dog
is mass and is also energy, convertible and just as a monkey or a cow
or a bee or a tuna…… or a bear… they are all mass and they are all
energy and they are convertible into mass and energy…
that is our connection to life…we are one and the same…
mass and energy convertible into each… so when you harm a
dog, you harming yourself because there is no difference
between a dog and yourself… both are mass and energy
convertible into the other………that is why we must preserve
trees and plants and other life… for that life is us and we are it…
for both are mass and both are energy and mass and energy is convertible
into each other…….
that is the permanent we must seek… that is the permanent that
we pursue… our temporary forms, be it dog or human or stove or water bottle
are just that, temporary… but they connect and are the permanent by being mass
and energy………… you are me and I am you by a very real and direct path…
we are mass and we are energy and we are convertible into mass and/or energy…
Kropotkin