The Ultimate Awesome

"It is better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out."

-- Neem Karoli Baba

I don't care if you're Einstein or Stephen Hawking, or the recipient of a MacArthur genius award, you're not going to be able to figure it all out. It just ain't going to happen -- no way, no how.

So why spin your cognitive wheels in the primordial mud of existence? Why spend you're entire life trying to explain the unexplainable. Yo, there Sisyphus, just let that friggin rock go already!

Rational thought cannot explain reality. Intuition, however, can grasp what discursive thinking cannot. You can intuit the true nature of existence. And through intuition you can know and "see" God in everything.

It ain't easy. It's like looking through a pair of binoculars that keep slipping out of focus. But with practice your seeing can become more consistent. And by practice I don't mean "trying," I mean being. Being present to reality. Getting out of your thoughts, out of your emotions and, right here, right now, taking perception to a deeper level.

When it all clicks, it's amazing! God is everywhere, in everything. It's not a concept, it's an experience of the highest order, a knowing of the deepest degree, the ultimate awesome. God everywhere, in everyone, in everything -- what could be more obvious?

You may not be prone to trying to figure out the ultimate nature of existence. I bet, however, that you vex yourself unnecessarily trying to figure out why your partner does what he or she does, why your teenager is acting like that, or why your coworkers seems so clueless and lame. Forget about it! Instead, use a different part of your mind, and see God in each and every one.

God in disguise, God in drag. Behind each and every mask, behind personas one and all, hell, in personas one and all, lurks The Divine. Everyday our joyous task is the same -- see! Simply see.

Delicious Ambiguity

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

-- Gild Radner

Nobody knows what's going to happen next. We can guess, we can predict, we can prognosticate, but we cant' know. That is so freeing! Nothing is pre-ordained, nothing is written, it's all a beautiful, ever-changing crap shoot.

Every student should have to take a required class called Introduction to Ambiguity. That class, more than algebra, more than chemistry, would help students learn how to deal with the real world of ever-shifting scenarios and free flowing possibility.

Instead, we try and teach analysis, prediction and control, all to no avail. You can waste your time analyzing the world if you want, but you can predict very little and control even less, so why bother?

Perception is where it's at. Being present, wide awake and aware. Living in the moment and enjoying life as it is, right here, right now.

That alone will help you build your ambiguity muscle. That alone will insure that your life is fully experienced and well lived. It's like a prize drawing at a charity raffle -- you must be present to win! Present without resistance. Wide open. Letting ambiguity be. Letting the world be what it is, even though a little voice (or a loud voice) inside of you doesn't like it.

In ever-changing times, your levels of success, joy and comfort are all directly dependent upon your ability to tolerate ambiguity. But why merely tolerate it when you can thrive upon it? Delicious ambiguity -- the true breakfast of champions!