Weekly Post

It is difficult to write posts here in New Mexico. Too much going on – finishing a house, building a garden – not much time to think about the essentially unthinkable. And what’s the point of trying to explain the unexplainable anyway? To try to put into words what is beyond words? (especially when you don’t understand it yourself!) So enough philosophizing, it’s time to concentrate on direct experience of Haiku God Itself. However, I did make a promise to write a post at least once a week, so here it is.

Two days ago I found out friends of ours lost their only grandchild to SIDS. What a shock! I wondered how I would feel if my only grandchild (who is still in the oven) were to die before living a year.

Well, I don’t think I would feel sorry for the child. For one thing, it would be too young to have built up any negative karma, so would revert to pure spirit, pure love, the pregnant void of dark energy. And it might even be a blessing, as it would not have to live through what probably will be a very dark future for mankind.

But personally, there would be a big hole – a part missing. Already I feel little Rous (rodent of unusual size, this being the year of the Rat), who hasn’t even been born, is a part of me.

And maybe it would bring home the fact of the transience of all life, even my own. Yes, I am sure to die someday – perhaps it would be a good idea to prepare? How does one prepare? Logically, by developing awareness and compassion, the hallmarks of Haiku God. Hmmm.

On that note, enjoy Memorial Day, but also reflect on the ultimate sacrifice so many have made to give us what we have. Was it worth it?

Deism, Theism...

In the Christian tradition, there is an unfortunate tendency to view God as an individual, personal “He.” Unfortunate for at least two reasons:

1. It limits God (as not-she and not-neuter). What good is a limited God? God must be an It to be truly unlimited.

2. It separates God from Man. One result of this is that Man isn’t considered to have divine nature. So he has no responsibility to discover it. Convenient: eat drink and be merry!

But man must have divine nature. The biblical god even said “I am who am.” Well, I surely am a who am, you are a who am, every aware being is a who am, so how can there be separateness?

One explanation for this tendency to personalize God as a separate masculine being can be found in Haiku God theory. One form of Haiku God is electromagnetic energy – defined as positive male energy, as opposed to attractive female energy (see March post “About Energy”). The greatest source of this loving, aware energy happens to be the sun. It provides the energy and awareness for life to exist on earth. It is our “creator.” “He,” as love, also provides compassion. But it is important to note that the sun, one of countless centers of positive energy, is only one of the three forms of God, the others being matter and dark energy (see March post “Dark Energy). It is dark energy, the ground of the other two, which is the transcendent form of God, the form which, as undifferentiated and unknowable, is beyond individuality and beyond any attempt by man to describe, categorize or conceptualize It.

It’s probably not harmful to view God as a person for a while, as long as it is just a stepping stone to viewing God as It is by actually experiencing It within. Then all views, concepts and beliefs vanish into the pregnant void of dark energy (which actually is light!). Try it.

Motherhood

A little haiku in honor (?) of mothers:

Mother is matter
When imbued with E (spirit)
Transforms into life

Not the most emotional way to look at motherhood, but Haiku God is that way, except when manifested as human.

Back in the USA

I apologize for the lack of posts, but I just moved from Saigon to Denver for summer vacation and I am trying to make the transition to life in America. People sure have a lot here! But strangely, they don’t seem to be any happier than the Saigonese. Anyway, it’s nice to be with my family again.

My wife is an anti-haiku god person. In fact, she is anti-anything named “God.” She strongly disbelieves that there is a separate supreme “He” who does all those things that “He” supposedly does; like plan, create, help, know, act, give, feel, whatever. She asks me why I don’t name reality “Energy” or something else besides “God,” which reminds her of the personal “God” most people seem to believe in. Well, I answer that “God” is the name usually given to Ultimate Reality, so if we’re talking about ultimate reality, we should use the word “God” so everyone will be on the same page. And then hopefully the people who believe that the separate, personal male/positive/He/E side of ultimate reality is actually God Itself, will correct their mistake, and pay more attention to the feminine side of God (as well as the transcendent form of God). Not recognizing matter/earth/Gaia as an equally important manifestation of true God would surely lead to a distorted view of the universe and self, which surely leads to our present global predicament.

Semantics, semantics! Words cannot express.