Mystic Solipsism
"Your first and most primary step toward finding the meaning and significance of life is to enter into your aloneness. It is your temple; it is where your God lives, and you cannot find this temple anywhere else."
- Osho (Love, Freedom, Aloneness - The Koan of Relationships, pg. 179)
Solipsism is derived from the Latin words solus (alone) and ipse (self). Thus, Solipsism literally means the view that one is alone.
Although God inversed itself to form an outer cosmos, a cosmos of infinite multiplicity - all such objects retain their original essence, which is The One. In Hinduism this One is known as the Self. Others might call it the Absolute. Still others use the word God. Doesn't matter. It is all the same Absolute One. This One has a number which is no number at all - zero. All others are either positive or negative numbers. For now, we will refer to the essence and source of all that is as the Self.
The question is - do these various objects of existence maintain their singleness? It is impossible that they should do otherwise. For if the objects would become dual in their ground then the objects would become separate from the One - their Source. Therefore, all that exists must in its essence be one. If one, then alone. All objects must be alone. Irregardless of number or expression, all objects and beings are entirely alone.
To put it in another way - all beings are individualized and inverted expressions of the Self - which knows only itself. If the Self is alone - for it is One - then its inverted individualizations must likewise be one (in their essence but not in their form).
Now - this gives us tremendous insight into the existential and epistemological problem mankind finds itself in from time immemorial. If you were to just surf Blogspot.com you would find that every blogger is in their own little world. One person is talking about heart disease, another person is talking about cats, another person is talking about some esoteric religion. The next person is discussing their hatred of Islam and the next is discussing their trip to China. There is an unlimited and seemingly infinite amount of mindsets that any one human being can possess. Every one of those bloggers is in their own world alone, in a world of their own making.
When you are having a discussion with someone you delude yourself into thinking that you are actually communicating with someone. You are communicating only with yourself; you are trying to convince only yourself. You are working out the understanding for yourself, in your own way and in your own words. As long as you are using another's words, you understand nothing. You are never taught by somebody, you teach only yourself.
When you are making love, so to speak, you are only making love to yourself - to your inner woman or inner man - for you can only feel your own sensations, not the others. In fact, ultimately you can only love yourself and to the extent that you love "others" is to the extent that you love yourself. "Love your neighbor as you love yourself" means love yourself and your neighbor is included. Love your self means love your source, your essence, and that essence is the same source as your neighbor.
Only those that share an affinity with the thoughts on this blog will ever read it. We believe what we want to believe, hear what we want to hear, think what we want to think. It doesn't matter that something is logical, that it is meaningful, that is is helpful. All that matters is what we desire - for it is out of our own desires that we construct our worlds. Desire precedes creation.
So then, we are individualized inversions of the Self. Therefore, like the Self, we are alone. Yet, since all proceed from the Self, we are all interconnected and ultimately one whole (which is the cause of affinity with others).
Humans discern this aloneness keenly from within and thus suffer from intense separation anxiety. This separation anxiety causes fear which leads to the development of the ego from a young age. The ego is not the Self. The ego is our own creation, a dualistic and separate but illusory entity. All the problems that we have with other people and with the cosmos itself stems from this ego personality. If you are alone - what is the problem? But if you are separate then you must strive and struggle and seek and be saved. The ego is the problem and the only problem.
Being alone does not mean being separate. You are not separate because separation is impossible when reality is One.
Embrace your aloneness and you will no longer be lonely for within your aloneness is an All Oneness. Within your aloneness is an infinite universe to experience. The universe, after all, is one verse; one song that just sings along and alone.
Enough for now.
- Osho (Love, Freedom, Aloneness - The Koan of Relationships, pg. 179)
Solipsism is derived from the Latin words solus (alone) and ipse (self). Thus, Solipsism literally means the view that one is alone.
Although God inversed itself to form an outer cosmos, a cosmos of infinite multiplicity - all such objects retain their original essence, which is The One. In Hinduism this One is known as the Self. Others might call it the Absolute. Still others use the word God. Doesn't matter. It is all the same Absolute One. This One has a number which is no number at all - zero. All others are either positive or negative numbers. For now, we will refer to the essence and source of all that is as the Self.
The question is - do these various objects of existence maintain their singleness? It is impossible that they should do otherwise. For if the objects would become dual in their ground then the objects would become separate from the One - their Source. Therefore, all that exists must in its essence be one. If one, then alone. All objects must be alone. Irregardless of number or expression, all objects and beings are entirely alone.
To put it in another way - all beings are individualized and inverted expressions of the Self - which knows only itself. If the Self is alone - for it is One - then its inverted individualizations must likewise be one (in their essence but not in their form).
Now - this gives us tremendous insight into the existential and epistemological problem mankind finds itself in from time immemorial. If you were to just surf Blogspot.com you would find that every blogger is in their own little world. One person is talking about heart disease, another person is talking about cats, another person is talking about some esoteric religion. The next person is discussing their hatred of Islam and the next is discussing their trip to China. There is an unlimited and seemingly infinite amount of mindsets that any one human being can possess. Every one of those bloggers is in their own world alone, in a world of their own making.
When you are having a discussion with someone you delude yourself into thinking that you are actually communicating with someone. You are communicating only with yourself; you are trying to convince only yourself. You are working out the understanding for yourself, in your own way and in your own words. As long as you are using another's words, you understand nothing. You are never taught by somebody, you teach only yourself.
When you are making love, so to speak, you are only making love to yourself - to your inner woman or inner man - for you can only feel your own sensations, not the others. In fact, ultimately you can only love yourself and to the extent that you love "others" is to the extent that you love yourself. "Love your neighbor as you love yourself" means love yourself and your neighbor is included. Love your self means love your source, your essence, and that essence is the same source as your neighbor.
Only those that share an affinity with the thoughts on this blog will ever read it. We believe what we want to believe, hear what we want to hear, think what we want to think. It doesn't matter that something is logical, that it is meaningful, that is is helpful. All that matters is what we desire - for it is out of our own desires that we construct our worlds. Desire precedes creation.
So then, we are individualized inversions of the Self. Therefore, like the Self, we are alone. Yet, since all proceed from the Self, we are all interconnected and ultimately one whole (which is the cause of affinity with others).
Humans discern this aloneness keenly from within and thus suffer from intense separation anxiety. This separation anxiety causes fear which leads to the development of the ego from a young age. The ego is not the Self. The ego is our own creation, a dualistic and separate but illusory entity. All the problems that we have with other people and with the cosmos itself stems from this ego personality. If you are alone - what is the problem? But if you are separate then you must strive and struggle and seek and be saved. The ego is the problem and the only problem.
Being alone does not mean being separate. You are not separate because separation is impossible when reality is One.
Embrace your aloneness and you will no longer be lonely for within your aloneness is an All Oneness. Within your aloneness is an infinite universe to experience. The universe, after all, is one verse; one song that just sings along and alone.
Enough for now.
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