Coming, Going, Being

My two cents – for some no sense, for some nonsense, and others may become incensed., but that's alright with me.

With all due respect, I find there is a plethora of EndTimes-addicts and Revelations-junkies, which is their business to pursue as they wish. It may be that this or that prophecy of old, or these or those verses of the Old or New Testament canons, unduly impress for reasons which fail to inspire me. They may be impressive, but the key word here is: unduly.

My earlier experiences with people concerning their entire attention to faith vis-à-vis the evils of others, and with escaping the latter by getting tickets to The Rapture or just by Getting to Heaven altogether – is that what they tend to be taught in their Bible circles appears quite overweight in the Headroom, and altogether lean in the spiritual impulse of Heart. My later and current occasional contact with those hooked on this, on depreciating this world for some other - of which they're so certain - is that they miss out entirely on the purpose of this one and think and speak in one dimension only, maybe two. But not three – and four is strictly out - when I've encountered such simplistic absolutes in grown adults.

I'm not disparaging here, but challenging. I sometimes tell those at my workplace who just can't get through the shift fast enough and be done with it: "We don't come to work to get home, we come – to work." And you didn't become Human to go to Heaven. At the age of five, out playing with my mates, I suddenly had a re-call: that we are there, we are in it, we need only to acknowledge it and have it in our consciousness, it never left us.

Why are you here, why did you take form in a Human life? To get somewhere else? To go to Heaven? What will you do when you get there – if you weren't satisfied being here in this world, why would you be satisfied there, why? If that were where you should be, why did you leave it – providing you actually know, as you claim what Heaven is, what it is like, so to speak. Or is this all some bad accident, a dream you can't handle? It is a dream, but it is real while you are in it. Do you know that you came from there, and it is already your destination and your destiny – so why sweat it? Your sweat is needed here, and your ease and repose, your faith is needed most here. Are you an investor, or a lover of God - which is it?

One doesn't have to be a Buddhist to be a bodhisattva, many Buddhists aren't, and many bodhisattvas aren't necessarily Buddhists either. We just have the term from there. If this world were a house burning to the ground, the Seekers of Heaven would already be on the next train out. The bodhisattva would be in that goddamned house getting every last sentient Being possible – man, woman, child, pet, livestock – outa there, he'd be singed and coughing, but taking any intelligent measures to save those lives.

If it's Heaven you're wanting, without knowing the dimensions of its penetration in this very world you reject, you're just in it for yourself – a shadow-self which is still petty and wanting. Easy answers, easy concepts, easy presumptions, all there on the pages in black and white. Saved/unsaved, heaven/hell, rapture-and-revelations/sin-and-judgment. A Muslim can do the same with Qur'an – and does.

Never heard of grace? Being good, living the good life, good works, won't take you safely over when you do go, memorizing and quoting Scripture also not. Fitting in, sitting in, going or not going to the right church. Definitions definitely not. Head head head, talk talk talk, think think think.

Nicodemus knew about all that. Christ told him, "How 'bout that wind, eh? It listeth where it will, one knoweth not from wence it came, nor whither it goeth – such are those born in the spirit." Or to the Samaritan woman at the well, "God is a spirit, and will be worshipped in spirit."

Life in this body is good. Life in this world is good. It all came from Him, it all goes back to Him. To a lover of God this is already clear.