A short guide on how to build a whole universe as an all-powerful all-seeing God

After a week of walking around, far away from my place, I am back to the place that I arbitrarily designated as my home. And I must say, it is feeling good. Grounding me, making me feel part of a place, of a community, of something that I can't define.

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There is some kind of meditation in Tibet, India, and probably many other places, that I could call the Onion reality. It is easy, but also hard. As some of us are not ready to confront our inner core, naked, wonderful. It is all about the masks, labels, or veils that we use to mask the real us. And there are so many of them.

Shall I start?

I used to be an accountant. But this is a profession, it is not me.

I used to be a warehouse worker. But this is a job, it is not me.

I used to be a good scholar. But this is what the teacher thought about me, this is not me.

I am a good son (more or less). But this is a label that my parents created, it is not me.

I am a healthcare worker. But this is a profession too, it is not me.

I am Romanian by birth, and English by adoption. But this is just a label related to the places where I lived, it is not me.

I am a writer (sometimes), a poet (most of the time), and a genius (here and there), but all of these are a consequence of my actions, this is not me.

I am a husband, as my wife would say, but this is also a construction of human society. This is not me.

And the list can continue, on and on. Once I peeled all the layers, once I am deep in my heart, the center or the reality, the seed of light that our God planted inside of me, the immortal Soul (or any other names or labels you use to call your center), who am I? What is it that is left, when we undress all these clothes that we wear around our soul (I dare to say, even if many of us may use any randomly designated name)?

Some Indian wise man (Nisargadatta Maharaj) was asked what should we do, once we reach the void hiding behind our existence? His answer was: Go further, and see what is behind the void, into the non-manifested.

As you go deep enough, everything disappears, even you. This is what some cultures call being one with the Universe, with God, and with Reality. There are many words, but all of them are just labels, right? They cannot describe the indescribable. The opposite of "Tat twam asi" - Sanskrit for "I am that''. By doing this, your limits as a being will disappear, and you will find yourself as something greater, as something different.

This is the first step.

And a little extra bonus, for you, if you managed to read until the end. A less-known mistic, and writer, Gustav Meyrink, and my favorite quote from one of his books:

The key that will make us masters of our inner nature has been rusty ever since the Flood. The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything. Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality, he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. The tighter the net, the heavier he sleeps. Those who are trapped in its meshes are the sleepers who walk through life like cattle being led to the slaughterhouse, indifferent and without a thought in their heads. Seen through the meshes, the world appears to the dreamers like a piece of latticework: they only see misleading apertures, act accordingly, and are unaware that what they see is simply the debris of an enormous whole. These dreamers are not, as you may perhaps think, dwellers in a world of fantasy and poets. They are the everyday men, the workers, the restless ones, consumed by a mad desire for restlessness. They are like those beetles which laboriously climb all the way up along a pipe, only to plunge down into it again as soon as they have reached the top. They say they are awake, but what they think life is, is really only a dream, every detail of which is fixed in advance and independent of their free will.

There have been, and still are, a few men who have known that they were dreaming.

To be awake is everything.

The first step towards this state is so simple that any child could take it. Only those who have been misled have forgotten how to walk, and stay paralyzed on their two feet because they do not want to throw away the crutches they have inherited from their predecessors.

To be awake is everything.

Keep awake whatever you are doing! Do not imagine that you are already awake. No — you are asleep and dreaming.

Gather all your strength together and fill your body for a moment with the feeling (but not the thought !!): Now I am awake!

If you can do this successfully, then you will at once perceive that the state in which you were before was merely one of somnolence. This is the first step on the long, long journey that leads from servitude to freedom.

Go on, then, advancing from one awakening to another. There are no tormenting thoughts that you cannot in this way get rid of. They will be left behind and will not be able to trouble you anymore. You will be as high above them as the crown of a tree is above the withered branches below.

Your pains will fall away from you like dead leaves from a tree when you feel your whole body, mind, and soul is awake.

The Brahman icy baths, the sleepless nights of the disciples of Buddha and the Christian ascetics, and the self-inflicted tortures of the Hindu fakirs are nothing other that the ossified rites which indicate that it was here that the temple of those who strove to stay awake originally stood.

Read the sacred writings of all the people on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. It is the ladder of Jacob who fought all through the “night” (sleep) with the angel of the Lord until the “day” (wakefulness) broke and he was victorious.

You must climb from one step of the ladder to another if you want to conquer death.

The lowest step is called: genius.

What are we to call the higher ones? They are hidden from the mass of mankind and looked upon as legends.

The story of Troy was thought to be a legend until one day a man had the courage to start excavating by himself.

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That's all for today, hope you enjoyed it.

George