It's Only Words

Prior to the creation of words life must have just happened in a meaningless thought free NOW.
As we evolved a noise asigned to a particular picture was uttered creating a word.
As more and more words were created a new way to communicate had evolved.

Over time a language of separation using words to divide apsects of the one NOW into different parts was born. (good, bad, light, dark, love, hate, right , wrong).

Duality then became the language of mans reality.

The ego seems to have arisen in tandem with the evolution of language to give creedence to the meaning of words.

Yet whatever existed prior to language needed no words or ego or meaning just to be.
If there is no meaning in words other than what we have assigned them , can it be seen that there can be no meaning to ego either.

True egolessness is the natural condition of the unified field of existence and it includes all there is.
Egoity is an unnatural condition that appears to have arisen to give life to mans language of words, concepts and subsequent beliefs.
Consider the meaning man has given to the most meaningful word of all , the word 'ME' . Upon this foundational word all other language is constructed.

'Me' means 'I' as a separate idendity apart from all other life . An isolated thing-ego all alone forever struggling to live peacfully with it's false self and all other falsely labelled and therefore artificially separated life forms .
Only by seeing through our artificial language of words and their meaninglessness , can we drop our attachment to our artificial concept of 'ME' ,our illusory ego.

Without a 'ME' anymore, and all the accompanying language of 'ME', egolessness naturally arises in an unspoken language of love and ONENESS that requires no sound or meaning to convey.

Blessings In Disguise

With so many people going through incredible change at the moment, such as financial changes, relationships ending, jobs ending, I find myself thinking of a story that Osho shares.

It goes something like this;

There was a man who owned a beautiful horse, many people, including Emperors had offered him large amounts of money to buy this horse, and he always declined.

One morning he awoke to find the horse had been stolen. The town folk came together to console the man saying, “This is terrible. Many people offered you a lot of money and you wouldn’t sell the horse and now it has been stolen and you could have had all that money. You will never see the horse again”.

To which the man replied “Don’t be silly. All we know for now is that the horse is not in the stable. I do not know what the future will bring, lets wait and see what happens”.

Fourteen days later, the horse returned to the man, and had brought along 12 other beautiful horses with it.

Again the town fold gathered, this time to celebrate with the man. “You are very clever, we did not know what would happen. Now the horse has returned and brought you 12 other horses, you will be rich”.

To which the man replied “Let’s not get ahead of the situation. All we know for now is the horse has returned and brought 12 other horses with it”.

The next morning, the man’s son broke his leg whilst breaking in one of the new horses. The town folk came together to console the man. “How terrible. We are so sorry for you. Your son has broken his leg and now he will be a cripple”.

To which the man replied “Don’t jump ahead. Only say this much, my son has broken his leg – that’s all.”

The following day the government came to town and forcibly took all of the healthy young men from their families to fight the war.

The townfolk came together to see the man “You are so very wise. All our sons have been taken to war. The enemy is much stronger and all of our sons will probably be killed. In our old age, we will have nobody to look after us. You still have your son, even though he is crippled, you still have him here.”

But the man said, “Say this much – that your sons have been taken by the government. My son has been left, but there is no conclusion!”

State the fact. The relationship has ended. The job has finished. What comes from that, no one knows… so lets just wait and see what happens.

Don’t see things as a curse or a blessing. Don’t interpret it and suddenly everything is beautiful.

“What seems to us bitter trials is often blessings in disguise” Oscar Wilde

Sandcastle

"I" as this sandcastle
feel so clever to have become this
standing so tall and proud
only to be knocked down
and to become a mere grain of sand
in the beach once more
where I am nothing
yet I am all.