What's REALLY going on?!!!

Sometimes I pause, every now and again, and in a moment stop taking "life" for granted, and then I consider the question of - what's going on? Of course my seeking mind will then begin a long train of thought about stars and planets, and evolution, even some sort of eternal creative process, but that still doesn't seem to even begin to address the question - What's REALLY going on?

And by this I mean everything, at ALL levels, everywhere, and especially right here because in a non-local, holographic universe, local surely matters.

Even to consider it, for real, the question. What's going on? Just who and what am I and why am I even here, and my God what the heck might be going on "out there"? It's enough to "cook my noodle", leaving me flabbergasted, "gobsmacked".

There really is no description for "it", but in posing the question "what's really going on?" and "who and what am I?" at the same time something deep within is stirred, it's hard to explain, but there seems to be an inkling of some type of knowing when confronting, head on, the ineffible and inscrutible mystery of existence, not a full-on ah HA moment, but little smile, and the creeping and "warm" sensation that the only thing "going on" that's available and accessible, in the present moment, even as a representation of the larger whole, is that very internal felt-experience of beingness, which or perhaps I should say WHO is already present, as our very deepest, truest self.

It's as it, at core, when standing upon the very unconditioned ground of being, by knowing our true and authentic self, we CAN know something of the "truth and the life and the reality" as it really and truly is, which is an absolute marvel to me, how something so utterly outside the realm of concievable, can still be present, right now. That's crazy, that whatever "it" is it IS "happening" right now, here, and everywhere.

I don't think we can explain it or describe it, but I do think that "it" is available to us in our own felt experience, and thus, what is entirely outside the realm of concievable, is nevertheless knowable, to a degree, by the very virtue of it's present moment beingness or suchness, and that's pretty freaking awesome, to me.

What do you think?

reply to post by NewAgeMan


Before you incarnated here, you kNew the answers, so why can't you kNow the answers here and now, as you did then?

Ribbit

reply to post by ButtUglyToad


Maybe we come here to bear witness to the truth, and it takes at least half a lifetime to even pose the right questions?

He who thinks he knows, knows not, but he who knows that he knows not, knows.

~ Confucius

Well, reading your thread just caused my brain to BSOD - And has reminded me that life is mysteriously awesome... Or awesomely mysterious. Now if I may, I'm going to re read what you just wrote! I can tell you one thing. The answers to your questions cannot be contained in a single book, this part I've come to accept by now.

Interesting writings indeed... Cheers!

Originally posted by NewAgeMan

He who thinks he knows, knows not, but he who knows that he knows not, knows.

~ Confucius

Confucius also said:

"Never pick nose with tampon unless it's someone else's nose."

Ribbit

Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by ButtUglyToad

 

Maybe we come here to bear witness to the truth, and it takes at least half a lifetime to even pose the right questions?

I agree that it takes Time to figure out the correct questions to ask.

As to why We are here, to play our part.

Ribbit

i think there is an answhere,real things are are immortal,we or the universe etc. are mortal.
so in the end we will not know what is real because we and all things around us are also not real only for a period of time it appears all is real, but is it??there mid be a other dimension(higher)you can see whats reality but in user dimension we can even not know in the deepest fantasie how reality looks like!
sorry about my english im an german)

reply to post by ButtUglyToad


Say, what are you dewin??? Should I add some emoticons, like, for intance? Where and when did Cnfuscus talk about tampons? Is that how you feel about him, about women, or about anyone's search and expression of the aforementioned for Knowledge, and I am writing like you, so that maybe you would write like the rest of us so some of us, at least, could understand....or really, just me, I'm not speaking for anyone else...
Btw, do you have another member name as cosmicwatergate, too? Just wondered. This guy really puts some thought and effort into saying something to reach someone, at least I think that's what he's doing, but we can't all remember our past lives and their relevance here and now. Is this where you will tell me everything is as it should be, just relax? Sorry not trying to give you a ribbit hard time, just trying to figure out what's in your ribbit brain.

Oh, when I talked about "this guy" putting effort into his post, I was talking about OP

Originally posted by tetra50
Oh, when I talked about "this guy" putting effort into his post, I was talking about OP

I figured it was the OP and kNot CosmicWatergate.

As to Confucius, try it to see if he was right or kNot?

Ribbit

Everything that can be known already exists within the realm of an unknown unknown, but to know we don't know makes all the difference, because it makes what cannot be known, knowable.

reply to post by ButtUglyToad

Is there oil in that lanturn, or do you already presume to know everything already?



P.S. I love you, and have already gotten over the meaningless tampon remark. No worries as they say.

I can't possibly know the (symphonic chorus sounds) BIG PICTURE so I keep it all at eye level. I can't possibly know what my dog is thinking but I KNOW she likes to go for walks and THAT is the next thing I am going to do---out.

reply to post by intrptr


That's what's REALLY gong on though, you and your dog enjoying a walk. That's really something! It is.

And that's the point, isn't it?

That it distills itself all the way down to the level of the "ordinary" or the mundane, but when the bigger picture is at least considered as the frame within which the "mundane" is occuring, then it's no longer mundane, but sacred, and the ordinary, extraordinary, and that's what I think I was trying to convey in the OP, that what's going on IS what's going on, right here and now, in the presence of the present, and that has it's own awesomeness because it's occuring within the larger overall occurance, whatever that may be.

It's just a slight refraim, making of what was "normal" or ordinary, or mundane, extraordinary and sacred, because it's an occurance of life that is really happening witin the larger occurance of life itself, what an opportunity!

to get to walk your happy dog.

reply to post by ButtUglyToad


Ok. I'll get right on that with a tampon, and get back to you with my success or lack thereof

Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Everything that can be known already exists within the realm of an unknown unknown, but to know we don't know makes all the difference, because it makes what cannot be known, knowable.

Strange thing is, I know you and from whence you came.

Originally posted by ButtUglyToad
reply to post by NewAgeMan

 

Before you incarnated here, you kNew the answers, so why can't you kNow the answers here and now, as you did then?

The problem is that remembering that as in actually placing my awareness back in that trip rips me straight out of my ticking corpse.

Originally posted by NewAgeMan
there seems to be an inkling of some type of knowing when confronting, head on, the ineffible and inscrutible mystery of existence

It could be that the mystery is necessary. To keep it going.You are not confused when you wonder. Conviction is not freedom, curiosity is.

Good thread.

reply to post by NewAgeMan

Thanks for that reply.

then it's no longer mundane, but sacred, and the ordinary, extraordinary, and that's what I think I was trying to convey in the OP...

With one extra thought. Walking the dog might seem ordinary to me, but to her, Its the high point of her existence.
Dog, wanna go for a walk?
Dog: Outstanding!
So I do for her, and for others what they like and then I build a lasting legacy of extraordinary mundane achievement. (I hope)