Celebrating the Chaotic Minds
We humans often think in terms of imperfections. You have a chaotic mind? Oh, you should have a quiet one. Have a weird nose? You should have a straight one. Having bad feelings? That's not normal—you should mostly have good feelings.
I suggest we focus more on the uniqueness of things. What if we pretended that everything is exactly as it should be? That both the good and bad thoughts are exactly as they should be. That even cancer is exactly as it should be.
You see, discussions about creation often become debates about whether there is a higher power or not. Nobody cares. The lesson is what matters. If you see yourself as something that is perfectly as it should be, that's a completely different starting point from thinking that everything abnormal—or everything you don't like—shouldn't be there.
Creation, in that sense, is the opposite of Buddhism or science, both of which are looking for universal laws that connect things, or ideas such as everybody having an ego.
Do you know when you're typing something and suddenly think, "Why am I typing this? I already knew this from the very beginning."
The Sound Is Still There, but I No Longer Hear It
I was sitting in the garden. I heard the bass of some music in the background. I wanted to go confront my upstairs neighbors.
It turned out to be a festival farther away. The same sound, but a different effect.
It really makes a difference: I have no responsibility here. I don't have to take action.
That's why I think the same sound—the Big Bang, for example—can be heard by two people in exactly the same way, while each of them feels a different sense of responsibility about it.
It's like two people hearing the same sentence and drawing a different lesson from it.
* In the latter situation, the sound has moved outside my consciousness.