I use to have a spiritual guru who indulged me in metaphysics. One day while we were having a casual tête-à-tête in his quiet ashram he asked, “Where did you come from and where would you be going to?” My uninitiated response was of course; from a biological source, and to Heaven or Hell attempting to speak his language with due respect.
He chuckled.
I gave him a skeptical look and quipped, “Then where?”
“From Nowhere, to Nowhere” he replied.
“Wow!” I muttered, “that’s profound’. He didn’t respond and we sat in deafening silence for 20 minutes. Then he whispered barely audibly, “Did you notice the stillness?”
“Yes”, I blurted in relief.
“That’s the primordial nature of the Universe which is equated with Nothingness, where all phenomena take birth when the causative conditions arise and return to when the conditions dissolve. Coming and going are only labels given by our minds to imply movement which is actually an entity’s repetitive occupancy of a point in space and time. If you look at the bigger picture, when the causative conditions dissolve, all matter (which is in fact energy) will come to rest in this state of stillness”.
Hearing that, was when I re-evaluated and revamped my ideas of The Providence, Heaven and Hell, Birth and Death, and the Purpose of Life ...
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Sharing a quote from Eckhart Tolle
"When we go into a forest that has not been interfered with by man, our thinking mind will see only disorder and chaos all around us. It won’t even be able to differentiate between life (good) and death (bad) anymore since everywhere new life grows out of rotting and decaying matter. Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is."
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