The Paradox Of Being Egoistic

[WaveInTheOcean]

We are egoistic and self-centered only because we are so humble to falsely believe that we are not God but instead an isolated, lonely organism/agent running around on a planet of dirt in a big cold universe. Because we feel and see ourselves as an isolated and separate self, we naturally 'do stuff' to negate this feeling. And this 'stuff-doing' is most of the time harmful to our environment (society, other people, the Earth and so forth). 

The paradox in this is that everyone will tell you that you are self-centered and narcissistic if you tell them that you know that you're God.

But knowing that you are God is just knowing that the organism (the mind-body, the apparent you) depends on the environment and vice versa; the environment depends on the organism. 

You evoke the environment. The environment evokes you.

The Sun evoked organisms on Earth. The organisms evoked the Sun.
Thus you and the rest of the universe (what you normally would define as 'not-you'/the external world) goes together just like the north pole and south pole of a magnet goes together; they are inseparable.

Without an eye there is no sun. Without a sun there is no eye. *

Existence is relationship. Existence is an endless, infinite series of transactions which God is making with himself.
There can't be any selling without buying. No buying without selling.
God sells the dream of life to himself (there is nothing else but himself to sell it to). In hardcore reality there is only this non-dual God which is YOU.

But in this apparant dualistic reality you currently see yourself in (the dream of life) -- because you're purposely half asleep -- you can maybe instead view yourself as a unique transaction out of infinite transactions happening in God's infinite mind.

In that way, you are a son of God, as Jesus said.

The point is not that light should triumph over darkness. The point is that light needs darkness. Darkness needs light. Together the polar -- but inseparable -- opposites create the dance of life: the drama, the peace, the tension, the calmness, the beauty, the ugliness, the happiness, the sadness.

You wouldn't sit down and play a game of chess if you already knew who would win. You play, because you don't know. And when either black or white finally wins, you promptly restart the game and start all over with a fresh start.

It's an endless dance of immense complexity. Yet from God's point of view it's all so simple. It's just infinte being. And it's pretty cool.

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* The nervous system in the back of the brain creates the phenomenon, light, out of the electromagnetic vibrations which the Sun emits to the eyes. The nervous system creates the phenomenon, hardness, when the electrons of a hand gets repelled by a stone's electrons. etc.
And a sun is only a sun to you because it seems to emit light. And a stone is only a stone to you because it seems to be hard. But this is only half of the story. The brain evokes the light. And the brain evokes the hardness. Thus the organism evokes both the sun and the stone.
And of course the Sun also evokes the organism! Because without a sun close to the Earth there would be no energy to create life on Earth. And naturally, without stone ("Earth") there would be no place for an organism to grow and 'walk'. 
The Earth is not 'infested' with life (nor infested with human people). The Earth (together with the Sun and the rest of the the universe) evokes life.
The Earth 'peoples'. The whole universe 'peoples'. Human people are intelligent (per definition at least). Thus - naturally - the universe is also intelligent and not a 'stupid automatic random machine', which most atheistic scientists seems to believe it is.

Edited November 19, 2017 by WaveInTheOcean

[ajasatya]

@WaveInTheOcean you are the son of god and the son of man.

worry not. be true to your heart and forgive those who haven't been blessed with enough existential anguishes yet.

[cirkussmile]

What's the egoism here anyway? You can only give to yourself <3