{"id":366,"date":"2015-04-28T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nunan.dk\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2015-04-28T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T08:26:22","slug":"thoughts-on-the-nature-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nunan.dk\/?page_id=366","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the nature of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teachings of a frog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a><\/p>\n

Life is really quite simple when you listen to the nature of it.<\/p>\n

Typical Western science would cut this frog to pieces analyse it and electrocute it under microscopic deduction. This would produce a lot of statistics and Latin names in the name of science and in service of the intellect.<\/p>\n

Now there is nothing wrong with classification and deduction, but the problem, as I see it, is that it very often ends up “killing” the very thing it wants to understand.<\/p>\n

The Taoists where much more to the point I think, they would learn about nature by observation – they would say, if you want to understand a frog it can only be understood where it actually is in it’s waterhole.<\/p>\n

Everything is relational and connected and life is like that, and we \u201cthe observer\u201d and the \u201cobserved\u201d are the same.<\/p>\n

Both ways of seeing life and frogs are \u201cright\u201d – it\u2019s a matter of perspective.<\/p>\n

What I experience through The Three Principles is that there is a very logical and straightforward way of understanding the principles behind our experience of this frog.(nature)<\/p>\n

Mind or Nature knows how to give us frogs in waterholes, and consciousness makes us notice life …gives it a flavour and a feel to it.<\/p>\n

Thought, as a principle is what gives us our experience of the frog in the waterhole – and thoughts are linked to feeling. We feel our thinking.<\/p>\n

The point is that the frog and waterhole is just what it is, doing what it does.<\/p>\n

Our experience and feeling about it always come through our own thinking – that’s the way we are – thinking it up all the time.<\/p>\n

So the good news is, that when you realise that life, is as it is, and that it’s not the outside world that creates your feelings, but your own ongoing construction – thought in the moment – you are actually free to experience the frog and waterhole as it is in a purer way and just be with it.<\/p>\n

Being aware is enough – we don\u2019t have to trust our own limited construction – all we need is to be open to life without a analytical and conceptual idea about it.<\/p>\n

“The power of Thought is one of the most primal force functions of all
\nhuman beings.Without it, there is no way we could experience life”
\nSydney Banks from The Enlightened Gardener\u00a0 page 93.<\/p>\n

When great discoveries are made – like the one Sydney Bank’s experienced – we often don’t “get it\u201d, because we are looking at life through our conceptual glasses.<\/p>\n

But when we take them of we just might glimpse the awesomeness of it all, that life has nothing to do with our presupposed notions, but instead points to a more fluid source of ever flowing grace, not in a religious sense but in a spiritual sense that per se is formless and wordless.<\/p>\n

So thank you, dear frog for jumping up and making me stop in surprise and experience this otherness in a split second where time stood still and life was at it\u2019s fullest.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this makes sense to others, but it did to me. It\u2019s nice to get out of the illusion of my own thinking and into a state of peace and love.<\/p>\n

I will end this frog talk with a quote from a great teacher:<\/p>\n

\u201cSydney Banks\u2019 tremendous gift to the world was to bring simple principles along that would help people understand what Buddha was talking about, what Jesus was talking about\u2014everyone!\u2014Maslow, Carl Rogers and William James. The Principles, if you look at them deeply, are behind what everyone is talking about. Everyone is saying that Thought is what creates your reality, and that we are all a part of something much, much greater .\u201d – Ami Chen<\/p>\n

Let’s enjoy that we already are at home with ourselves – and that we actually don’t have to make life complicated and enjoy these moments of peace and love that we tend to forget when we look in the wrong direction blaming and scrutinizing or over thinking.<\/p>\n

Time to go for a walk, leaving our Ego’s at bay for a moment and just being open to listening to the miracle of it all.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

This night I had a dream<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2012-11-18<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Nunan Photography \u00a9
\nI was shown a book with images of my self<\/p>\n

and a text caption – I don\u2019t remember the exact words, but something like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t you show yourself as you are to the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

And I woke up – thinking – this is \u201cME\u201d whatever that means – a message from the unknown.<\/p>\n

Is this a unknown \u201cme” or is this a deeper \u201cme\u201d?<\/p>\n

The thing is that it was a feminine figure – a Muse<\/p>\n

Maybe Mnemosyne – the mother of the nine Muses is trying to give me a gift?<\/p>\n

The gift of remembering – this is what a Muse is – a spiritual influence that points you to a knowing<\/p>\n

Then this insight popped up;<\/p>\n

There is no past and there is no future – it\u2019s quite simple –\u00a0 there is only NOW – the reason is that we will only
\never be in this now even when we think of the past we are in the now as we were in the \u201cpast\u201d we were also in the
\nnow or as we will be in the \u201cfuture\u201d thinking of the \u201cpast\u201d – which is an illusion because we always are exactly where we are
\nNOW.<\/p>\n

This is the truth.<\/p>\n

The whole notion of linear time is a construct we make up.<\/p>\n

I remember an article I once read about the Aymara people in Chile, they don\u2019t face the future – they face the past. So in their language the whole idea of chronological time is reversed and different.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the future is considered nonsense – maybe because nothing makes sense but now? – Being where you are right now…<\/p>\n

And now the scientists are suggesting that even the \u201cBig Bang\u201d theory will be be proven wrong – the was no \u201cBig Bang\u201d and there goes one more theory of time.<\/p>\n

What if it\u2019s all NOW anyway?<\/p>\n

Anyway this is the feeling in my dream – it\u2019s all connected – my life – my past – to this one breath – this one thought<\/p>\n

Sydney Bank\u2019s is pointing to that Mind, Consciousness and Thought are just that. One.<\/p>\n

As I understand it – my life experience is inside \u201cme\u201d – the whole experience of life is what I think it is. I am feeling my thinking – all ways!<\/p>\n

Our feelings come from thought – not from the \u201coutside\u201d – that also implies, that we are not governed by our past experiences – but by our own thinking!<\/p>\n

The fear\u2019s in our head are truly in the our thinking and our biology beautifully responds to whatever we think – right now!<\/p>\n

This night I had a dream – or should I say – This thought of mine is pointing to the truth of who I am – \u201cI\u2019m\u201d the same as everyone a drop in the ocean of love.<\/p>\n

I will be this wave – I already am – and wow this feels good!<\/p>\n

The universe is infinite and we all are a part of this wisdom – the principles that live through \u201cus” are \u201cus\u201d.<\/p>\n

I do show myself to the world – it\u2019s what I think that shows me my world – it\u2019s not what I show on the outside that counts – there is no \u201coutside\u201d of my thinking in the moment..<\/p>\n

Falling into no-thingness<\/p>\n

Now<\/p>\n

Wow…<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

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