From the Greek word for messenger, the messages that we have received from these extraordinary sources have never really been all that important and the relaying of the experiences have not provided any significant progress for our understanding. There seems to be a breakdown in communication here.
Awareness
I use awareness as a broad term which incorporates both mind and consciousness in the production of cognition. Consciousness is always there but awareness may not be.
‘lieve’ is the same as the German word ‘lieb’ meaning ‘love’. Believe is ‘be love’: having faith that everything is good, trusting and knowing that you are good. There are no thoughts or justification, it is a pure acceptance of the universe and a release from society ego.
Consciousness is the root functioning of neural activity that is the processing of sensory information to produce awareness. The very base activity of the mind. The core and whole of the sum of brain activity and bodily integration. Consciousness is always the present moment of awareness. Consciousness exists before awareness and so the awareness might be environmentally influenced but consciousness is not
Dantien
Tien means ‘field’, and there are 3 of them: one below the navel, one in the chest and one in the head. The Dan means ‘cinnabar’, and is a mistake for San which means ‘3’. ‘Cinnabar fields’ makes no sense whatsoever and is a case of Chinese whispers persisting for thousands of years. One of the oldest sources calls it San Tien—"3 fields".
Dao
The right way. The good way. The way of God. The way the universe is working. The true way underneath all our stories of it. The unfolding of the universe, of our lives, of all events and happenings, the path of nature down which we are led.
The divine way is the process of the universe which is too difficult to define easily. The inability to define it is due to the incomprehensible chaos from which the infinite unfolding of this material existence has manifested itself. If we were able to completely define it, we would still need to give it a name, and traditionally that word is God, but that word is also love.
The ego is a model built by the mind, of ourselves relative to our environment from our life experience. This model could be conceived of as being that part of memory which contributes to our perception of ourselves.
This is a word that has become confused in everyday usage, with everyone having their own definition of it. A Latin and Greek word meaning the self, it is the concept of ‘the self’ and its various definitions that have produced the confusion..
The ego is a behemoth; it is huge; the monster capable of subduing the god within us so we can fit into our societal cage.
Literally ‘e-motion’, out of motion; because something has happened.
A biologically conditioned response to a previously experienced phenomenon.
Emotion is our physical and mental response to other catalysts, and therefore is the effect or reaction to something which has been mentally stimulated or previously experienced. An emotion is the default pattern of response that arises in a situation dependent upon a previously experienced stimulus. The word emotion can be used to denote an affinity for things, for example music can trigger emotion. Empathy and sympathy, the recognition of ourselves similar to others ideas or personality or situation. Emotion can get triggered when we recognise ourselves in something else. This probably has some link to mirror neurons.
Work is the changing of something into something else; the transference of heat; the changing of location. Energy is the name given to something which produces some change which we can observe. In fact, energy is just the sheer actuality of pure existence.
Work ultimately boils down to a sub atomic level where the process of time is continuing its journey making some change occur. This bubbles up causing molecular transfiguration with knock on effects which eventually comes to the notice of our macroscopic concept. It is the unfolding of the universe. There isn't anything which isn't energy.
The word God is the origin of the word good, and good and evil are the parameters within which we can describe our universe.
Anything that is described as evil is from a perspective of an individual and biased towards an expectation of what their belief system (society) says should be. This judgement is dependent upon the understanding of the universe possessed by that individual. Ultimately everything is good because everything is God, and so evil is not a true description (a defining of the universe, dividing and naming). Evil is just a wrong story inherited from society and its religions. Evil is man’s insecurities, trying to keep things the same, defending his ego. It is
“Exceeding due limits”.
Evil is whatever is contrary to the way of God; whatever tries to stop the unfolding of the universe; resisting the inevitable changes of the processes of the right way—Dao.
Faith
If it is assumed that this process of existence is good, or the right way (Dao), then to abandon oneself to life and trust that whatever is happening is the right way and is good, will produce the best experience. Accepting what is, would be all that is required. Knowing this is faith.
It means ‘stop give’. To stop giving advice or mental dialogue to the situation. To stop giving your criticism. To stop giving your picture of how you think it should be. You have done your remonstrating, you have given your complaint, it is completed and you are full and so now stop giving any more.
Sake means ‘seek’, ‘for’ means ‘complete’. You complete your seek to find an answer to the situation and stop seeking a resolution to your problem. You finish with it and abandon it.
God is the word that represents the processes which produces what we experience. Therefore you could say that consciousness is God and the mind is the hand of God.
The present moment, the reality, all that is our existence, this is what has been created by the processes of the universe and is what the word God is attributed to as creator. The unfolding of the universe, the laws of physics, the Dao—is God. If it is assumed that this process is good, or the right way (Dao), then to be with God would mean to abandon oneself to life and trust that whatever is happening, it is the right way; it is good. The evil would therefore be a denying of this or trying to prevent the way it is going. Accepting what is, would be all that is required, and this is grace. Anything else is arrogance.
Any sentient life form is an emergent god. We can know we are gods ourselves, but it is difficult to acknowledge others as being so. We can know that we are all gods, from personal empirical experience, but we cannot be gods together; only in isolation. There can only be one god. This god cannot be shared.
There is no love other than the love of God/Universe. Realising this is grace. It is the gratitude for existing and the feeling of love that this gives. The relaxation and peaceful mind and acceptance of how everything is, is grace.
In the concept of a universal totality—where all is one—the unfolding process of this would be God and the topographical description would be Heaven. They are the same thing. Heaven is the universe in totality, start to finish, which is a poor way of saying where God resides, as this can only be the same definition. Heaven is no more a place than God is a being separate to the universe. Neither can have any place, time or form attributed to them because effectively they are the form and the time that makes the universe.
Intelligence
The word comprises of Latin ‘inter’ = between, and ‘legio’ = to gather, and is the linking and juxtapositioning of information to form concepts by the brain. Between the gathering.
The word comprises of Latin ‘inter’ = between, and ‘est’ = to be; and means ‘between being’. It is the activity that happens when you are not in the base state of just observing.
Justice
Justice is a human society concept; it is not real. It is human society that divides up right and wrong. To cater for the examples of injustice an afterlife is created to balance it all out; it is not real. Only the human mind creates this concept.
Karma
Most karma for human beings occurs through the influence of events happening in society which are re-played again and again due to our habitual behaviour, giving a knock on effect that persists through generations. The future children, who are to suffer the karma from a person’s action, receive it by a subtle process where emotional or other harm is passed on through the family or society effecting the future generations.
Love is the acceptance of the blessed state of existence and is the essence of pure being. Acceptance is going with the flow; an absolute trust in the way, going with the way of nature: Dao.
Love is not an emotion. E-motion: that which comes from something happening. Love is not dependent upon anything from the past. It is pure and base and beyond any precondition
The attainment of a desire by manipulation of mental working to create circumstances and expectation conducive to fulfilling the prerequisites for the manifestation.
The method of preparing us for our realisation of godhood. The controlling of the mind and cessation of its meandering leaving us in a non-resistant acceptance of our divine manifestation.
A functioning of the brain. It is the mind which compares, and consequently produces the concept of time and the continuity. This makes the mind the sensor of time, and deals with the past and future only. It is the concept creator and the story teller.
The meaning of the word ‘universe’: all together; all turned into one. Joining the beginning and the end together, like a clock at 12 o'clock, is the principal of cycles, and everything can be described in cycles: electromagnetism, star and planet formation, life and the universe itself. One Turning is the biggest cycle of them all.
The word comes from the Latin Pre-Sentio. Sentio = Perceive - from ‘per’ meaning ‘thoroughly’ + ‘capere’ meaning ‘to grasp, take’. Therefore Pre-Sentio = before thoroughly grasping, before the minds judgment and analysis.
Reality is an illusion. There can be no reality because it can only ever be a story that is constructed by a human mind, a mind which is woefully inadequate to comprehend what reality really is. We try.
There are 2 methods in which re-incarnation works. Genetic inheritance and societal effects. Past lives are our observation and self-identification of characteristics in others that have gone before. All experience is created by our minds: our memories and imaginations tied to the existent physical being. We are each reincarnated into each other. The soul is throughout us all—now, the past and the future. The soul is common to each of us, it is every one of us.
Relief = love again—the continuation of what is love, a return to love and the knowing that everything is wonderful and as it should be. The lightening that the etymology refers to is due to the unburdening of our suffering which returns us to the state of love. The pure preternatural understanding of the word is more important and justified than the unphilosophical usage that has preceded it.
Respect
‘Re’ = again, ‘spect’ = look; to look again. Respect does not need to be earned, it is a core quality of intelligence. See the god within them and know that all have inadequacies as well as greatness. We all have our strengths and weakness', we just have to ‘look again’ to appreciate other people.
Self
The core consciousness within us that we identify as self, is ultimately a product of our physical existence and all experience is radiant from this physical being. The core consciousness arises within the physical individuality via neuronal matrix building via sensory acquisition.
The soul is the organism of mankind. It is only our personal recognition of it which pertains to our physical individual selves. It is the thing within us which is also in everyone else and which continues without our self.
The spiritual word is only there to define the physical. It is concepts to describe experience. The experiencer is in the physical. It is nothing more than concepts to describe and define the physical. Having an extra concept model with which to describe our reality is a good thing, but the two worlds are not separate.
Tao
The right way. The good way. The way of God. The way the universe is working. The true way underneath all our stories of it. The unfolding of the universe, of our lives, of all events and happenings, the path of nature down which we are led.
‘Ascend’ means to go up, ‘descend’ to go down, and ‘transcend’ means to go across. Your spiritual transcendence is not to a new place, but to the place you came from; the place that preceded the place you now want to egress. Your original self is your destination, a returning to non-dichotomy, to purity and wholeness, to your holy self—your First Self before you had descended into the world.
Literally ‘one story’, the complete lot of it from beginning to end.
Also One Turning.
Utopia
The spiritual concept of utopia is heaven. The mundane concept is of each individual spending its lifetime in an unrestricted environment, allowed to follow their natural path without the sustaining mechanism (the governing society), altering the course because of restrictions that are incurred by it.
A person who journeys into the White Room. The ultimate zero, journeying beyond time. Also ‘Whitenaught’, to convey the attribute of nothing or naught.
The antonym of the mind is the White Room, the pure white light that is sight without sensory awareness, with a high pitched sound rising to the point of inaudibility, and a floating boundary less form due to having no tactile limiting sensation. There is no awareness of time—which is the base of the mind—and so without the necessary sensory information with which it can compare things, the mind ceases to exist.
