The one and only 'God'...
possibly worshipped by more
than 99.999999% of humans...

There is apparently a one and only ‘God’, which in actuality is being worshipped by most of humans, irrespective of their religious or anti-religious beliefs, and in this, it seems to me, that most seekers after the absolute spiritual Reality are included.

And though all humans worship the very same ‘God’, conflict at all levels, wars and bloodshed, continue more than ever.

I was in a restaurant the other day. While eating, I noticed a logical discrepancy in the prices…

3 salats for 25 kroner, 6 salats for 60 kroner.

Since I thought that they perhaps made a mistake, as obviously if one can buy 2 x 3 salads for 50 kroner, nobody would buy 6 for 60 kroner, a sense of helping prompted me to approach the young girl behind the counter and point this out to her.

Just as I was about to explain to her, a matron-type of a woman (possibly the boss), came from a back-room (possibly the kitchen) and who, it so seemed to me, was not in a very good mood and actually in a potentially rather belligerent one.

Seeing this, I addressed myself to her, explaining as mentioned above.

She, at first in an apparently controlled mode, said that when you buy 6 salads, you get greater potions, so “they cheat themselves if they get 2 x 3 salads instead” (a possibility which my brain-cells already had figured out)… after which statement she exploded defensively into “We are not stupid you know!”…

And though I said that I was merely trying to help, there was no sign of any letting go of her resentment, and certainly any form of at least a formal ‘thanks’, was lacking as well.

So my intention to help, was translated by the other into being an insult.

And since I had no such intention what so ever(to insult) I was so surprised, that if I would call it a mild-shock might not be terribly incorrect.

Now this story might sound somewhat trivial, but for me, brought out of my memory-archive a statement J. Krishnamurti once made…

Upon his mentioning that he had a very close encounter with a tiger (not in the zoo but in the jungle), a listener asked him whether he was not afraid.

And his reply was (I paraphrase):

“So called wild animals such as tigers, are actually not dangerous, it is the

humans that you have to watch out for…”

I am aware that his statement can be looked upon thru quite critical eyes, but the question is,

is it so or not so?

And if it is so, and considering that there are ca. 6.5 billion of those ‘humans’ on the planet, the question is,

… all this pink talk of evolution in consciousness, millions of books on ‘how to become enlightened’, positive thinking, gurus, mini-gurus, therapists, coaches, techniques and other promising approaches… are all these any sensible basis for being optimistic about the future of humanity?

Yes, a relatively few, very few, do much dedicated work, but… considering the enormity and prevalence of the force of ‘darkness’ with its concrete-walls of resistance to a flowering into Reality, personally, I fail to join the stream of the optimist.

For Thee actual ‘God’, which the 6.5 billion humans worship (except for a few), with great ardent devotion, just about 24 hours a day, manifests everywhere one turns… and its masks and forms are multifarious and moreover, often, quite deceitful.

And by now, most probably you know what ‘God’ I am referring to… none other than that ‘supremely precious’ something – for which one is ready to die - the me, the self-center, the ego.

And so, paradoxically enough, the ideal that humanity should strive to have the same religion and only one God… in a sense, we have that already, don’t we?... though apparently not a very great ‘God’…

It seems to be more like a Cramp, to which we all are succumbing at most moments of the day…

Yes, we are in the same boat, but obviously we’re not aware of it, for else the battles/conflicts which make the boat rock, would instantly cease.

And naturally, one could say “…well, what about you JB, are you not also absolutely devoted to this ‘god’?”

Considering that particular situation, most probably, if my identity was not still the self-center, perhaps I would not have felt mildly shocked… perhaps I would have been more awake to the state of the woman, and so see that to help, was not a very good idea after all.

And yet… what do I know (?!)…

If I did not approach her, then that particular ‘mirror of relationship’ (as Krishnamurti calls it) would not have been activated for me to see myself as I am (At that moment), and who knows… perhaps for her too.

But, these are to a certain extent, mere assumptions.

Facts is, that things are as they are… ‘what-is’ IS as-it-is.

And not moving away from that, but staying with, relating to it as pure reaction-free awareness, seems to be the only worthwhile doing/non-doing…

…and so, when the self/me/ego goes into abeyance, the perfume of that timeless something, beyond Thought and the Word, IS.

This is not an assumption, I’ve seen it happening.

But then one might ask, ‘what is then the point of having used all these words?’…

I am not sure… perhaps being humans, we communicate, and since we have engineered sound into the word for the last several millennia, we use it…

For better – such as when the word is used by the Seeing to point to a Falsity within consciousness…

Or for worse – such as when there is only the word (steered by the self-interest) without the Seeing, and one slides down into the indulgence of merry-go-rounds, within the Tower of Babel…

Ok,, are you not tired?

I am…

... time to let the body rest…

and along with that, abandon for a few hours, all

of my ‘gods’… the known ones and

perhaps the unknown ones as well.

JB

Only this, as it is; no more, no less.

Joseph B. wrote:
of my ‘gods’… the known ones and

perhaps the unknown ones as well.

Not one of you , gods, is small, not a one a little child; all of you are truly great.

You gods who are all here and who belong to all men give far-reaching shelter to us and to cows and horses.
gb

We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. JK