Enlightenment Defeats Unhappiness
By: John Levin
Tags: Energy Meditation, Enlightenment, Physics, Cosmology, Spirituality

Enlightenment Defeats Unhappiness

Granite, Green, We Two, by John Levin

My whole skin,

and all that’s within,

has become a sexual kiss,

time stopped bliss,

nothing at all required,

flashlight to Emptiness

inspired.

Doctor to John: “What are you on?”

“Light, Time, and Emptiness, Doc,

And it just won’t stop.”

“Take two unhappiness pills, and call me in the morning.”

But I didn’t.

Osho would sometimes mention

how unhappiness had become impossible

since Enlightenment had happened.

I often think about Carlos Castaneda’s book, Tales of Power,

when Don Juan tells him,

“Carlos, for us, these are acts of power, but for you,

for now, they are still just tales.” (I paraphrase.)

Osho was right. But to understand

what he meant

took a few years.

Jimmy Carter was President

when Osho and I got started!

But now I know the Big O

was not lying.

This thing I call the Emptiness

is real,

the mind gone deal!

You know it, too.

Original Face, a term from Zen,

looking right at you,

winking and laughing,

staring straight through…

But here I’ve come,

with “Energy Meditation,”

a new twist with Tantric roots,

Enlightenment meets

those purple Zoot Suits.

Physics and science,

Energy Magic,

beyond all that tragic…

*** And Now The Science ***

We’d all like to improve our psychology, anger, unhappiness, the yack yack attack…

But, what to do?

It is such a zoo.

So I propose…

John’s End Run

In Cosmology, it appears that there may be a larger space, which I call the Emptiness, from which any number of Universes appear from. If you ask the question, “What existed before the Big Bang?” — That is the answer.

No time, no space, no no’s: Gautam Buddha calls it Nirvana, which literally means “Blowing out the light.”

Tilopa uses the term, Mahamudra, and tells Naropa, “Mahamudra rests on naught.”

Krishnamurti’s phrase is “The Pathless Path.”

Osho once commented that the meaning of Mahamudra is “Orgasm with the Universe,” and that, of course, is completely radical, but, completely, and correctly, true.

Recently, I came across the Cosmological hypothesis in Physics which goes by the name, “The Holographic Universe.” Now, a lot of New Agey nonsense got written about this — whole books! But, it actually has a hard scientific meaning, as well:

Steven Hawking showed that all the information in the internal 3D volume of a Black Hole is actually stored in the 2D surface of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon, the “point of no return.” Because a hologram stores all the information needed for a 3D reality in a flat 2D piece of film … that’s where the name comes from.

The Holographic Universe, at this point, is a conjecture by Cosmologists that, well … What if all the information in our 4D (space-time) Universe is somehow stored in a 3D Edge?

Cosmologists are a bit funkified as to what this Edge may be, but the obvious sense, to me, is that there’s a larger space, the Emptiness, where Universes come from. “What existed before the Big Bang?”

What I call the Edge, and, again, that is my term, is the boundary between us and the No No No.

OK. Another part of my argument has to do with Einstein’s observation that there’s no “privileged frame of reference.” What that means (one of the meanings) is that wherever you are in the Universe, you appear to be at the Center. All frames of reference are equivalent. There’s no absolute (privileged) frame of reference. That’s why, outside of our Local Cluster of galaxies, held together by gravity, all the rest of the Universe appears to be receding from us in all directions, as if we are at the center of it all. Amazing!

Perhaps this can help you to understand Gautam Buddha’s observation that, “Wherever you taste the Ocean, it’s salty.”

Conversely, the hypothesis of a Holographic Edge to the Universe, combined with Einstein’s Equivalency Principle, has an interesting implication — And, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this is purely me talking: If everywhere you are appears to be the Center, if there is no absolute frame of reference, then, wherever you are, you are also The Edge itself, and the Edge really is all the information in the interior of our Universe. It is the real All.

William Blake, “The Universe in a Raindrop.”

All the 10 zillion expressions of Oneness in religion, spirituality, philosophy,…

The Akashic Records.

Also, the scientific basis for Past Lives (think about it.)

Walt Whitman, “I contain multitudes.”

Buddha, (as always)

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But where does the orgasmic bliss come from?

I’m always scientific. If there’s something to meditation, to Enlightenment, then, for me, it has to be that we are becoming conscious of things that actually exist.

Then they have power.

Because this is my own experience, and not a proven fact, such as, say, wave-particle duality, then, for now, it has to be taken as an hypothesis, rather than a proven fact, but…

My meditational experience has been: The aforementioned Emptiness not only hasn’t gone anywhere, but also powers all these little Universes

Constantly.

It enters this Universe, and, if you will, “puffs it up.” When Hindus speak of Vishnu, the Divine Force that maintains the Universe, that’s exactly what they’re getting at. Pretty cool.

And becoming conscious of this Emptiness — which has no thought, no time, no space, no no: That gives you (gives me) the absolute sense of bliss I started off this piece with. Within you, within me, within rocks and trees and tiny green plants, suns and vast galaxies spinning in space…

And that’s why Enlightened people cannot be unhappy.

Damn, this was fun to write!

(All expenses were paid by the Universe. The thoughts, however, are the author’s own. We (the Universe) are on vacation, and we cannot be reached.)