Author: jorma

The small you is a little piece of light in a Kaleidoscope. The big You is the Kaleidoscope itself. The image in the Kaleidoscope is ever changing, fleeting and just some light. The image is pretty whatever the pieces of light think of it. You don’t control when you appear in the Kaleidoscope or when… Continue reading The Kaleidoscope

What I think I have figured out about how to interact with the world from the perspective of the small self, integrated with the big Self. This is an off the cuff list of shit that I think is true. It is very much a work in progress. Life is a game, don’t take it… Continue reading Work in progress

Sometimes we capitalize words. Like God. I guess it is to show that God is such an important dude that we can’t just throw his word in with all the peasant words. We also capitalize ‘I’. Why would that be, do you think? My proposal is this: let us uncapitalize the ‘i’ when we are… Continue reading A proposal

the Easter Bunny? Santa? God? Yourself? What kind of question is that? Do you believe in…? Do you believe in apples? Or in the sky? And why? Why do you believe or not believe in anything? Most of us stop believing in the poor Easter Bunny at some point, because it doesn’t exist. I would… Continue reading Do you believe in…

What does it mean to lose your identification with the ego? To achieve oneness with the universe? To become enlightened? People sit and meditate for hours on end trying to reach this goal. But does anyone really even know what the goal looks like? What is meant with those words? What other endeavor has a… Continue reading The small self and the big Self

look at something then look back at what’s looking if you see a dimensionless void, good realize that everything that you perceive is contained by that void including all the bits that you call you realize that there is no difference then look back out look at: countries, money, traffic rules, laws, etc. and realize… Continue reading Follow the lights

A little story… You’re on a walk. Let’s say you are in a forest, walking along a river bank. The sun is out, birds are singing, you are walking. As you amble into a clearing, you come across a young woman. She looks agitated. She is clutching something in her hand. The knuckles of her… Continue reading Stop the squeeze

Claiming to have consciousness is like an actor in a film declaring they have a movie screen on which they are projected. The movies We don’t have consciousness at all. That statement doesn’t make any sense. Everything, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g appears in consciousness. The world, your body, your thoughts, your feelings, absolutely everything appears in consciousness. There… Continue reading Like the movies

What does it even mean to ‘let go of the ego’? And how to do it? It’s a simple enough instruction but seemingly very, very difficult to execute. Here’s the thing. The ego is the bit in your mind that thinks it has control. That thinks it has free will and can do stuff. I’ve… Continue reading Letting go of the ego

You are not separate from the rest of the universe. All boundaries are made-up concepts. You, as a human, do not have free will. Causation binds everything together into a whole. Only that whole (or God) has free will. You are an integral part of that whole. There is no need to strive, judge or… Continue reading Trust in God