Riffin' On My Unintended Imprisonment in the Quantum Realm

Going into Buddhism/Oriental practice, I used to think that enlightened people, upon attaining enlightenment, essentially blipped out of existence. It’s a bit silly I admit, and truly I never gave the notion a second thought (or really a first), yet nonetheless, I was somehow under the impression that the great ones fall out of time and space…like the assumption of the Virgin Mother in the Western tradition…now most accounts of the assumption believe that Mary did die a mortal death, was resurrected, and then was taken body and all into Heaven, so there is a slight departure between the two examples but nonetheless…

Monks would find it terribly hilarious. Phenomena are about this side of the Infinite…the only side we’ve really ever known. Life is about life, so why would seek enlightenment to then blip out of life? Even in the Western traditions, true life…everlasting life…the real real… is always what the compass is set towards. The only reason we do anything ever is to go deeper into life…to taste more of it. I suppose there is brilliance in realizing that this best happens by making the most of the moment and world at hand moreso than trying to find something different or better… meaning springs forth from this sandbox of mortal life that we all find ourselves within, there is nothing outside of it, including God (who isn’t ever outside of it in any meaningful sense) that could ever mean any more than any of this. This is it.

This appears to raise an interesting conundrum from certain perspectives, because in depicting the inclination for suffering to arise as we live our lives, in trying to pin down some general facts about suffering and what causes it, Krishna goes so far in the Gita as to describe the material world in entirely dark terms, calling it a place of “misery” and “temporality”. The two go hand in hand upon deeper reflection, as well as get to the formula for transcendence that Krishna disciplines into his devotees.

You see, the monkey brain single button solution for all of life’s problems… God. Communion. Absolution. Becoming absolute or communed. Simply being God however you frame it.

You can see immediately what the dissolution of this attempted sustained utopia is- temporality. We live in time and space…across time the state of Beings fluctuates… can you truly expect to remain “absolute” or “communed” or simply expect to effectively be God as the context your faced with is perpetually flipping around and challenging you/conditioning you? That’s a tall order; it requires not only a master of the Spiritual arts… it requires a sentient Universe synchronizing the flow of phenomena in your favor.

It can be and is routinely accomplished by individuals who will drop your jaw straight to the floor. *Soundgarden’s Outshined begins to play in the background*

In Krishna’s frameworks, this is not the material world…but we also know that Infinity is meaningfully represented inside of everything, so when Krishna unilaterally defines the material world in a pessimistic fashion… we know he’s doing it a disservice. The juxtaposition his fallacious disservice offers as the flip side of this unmanageable situation of material embodiment and temporality is the notion of residing eternally in Krishna’s abode. You’d think that this is a place apart from the Now, and somewhere apart from Earth and mortal living, and thus comes the kinda silly notion of the enlightened ones “blipping out of existence” when they achieve enlightenment; I mean Krishna really does use the exact language that they will “never return to the material world” once people happen upon his abode (except for him apparently, and those Jedi ghosts that happen in the Star Wars universe) …which he also mentions later is found “within”.

So you get sucked into a wormhole that you yourself open up inside of your own head? Maybe you can take your high school crush with you too…

Burn some candles and listen to Kokomo…

This is an element of Krishna’s technique that gives me goosebumps. He knows that he’s speaking in direct contrast to earlier things he hammered into you when he defines the material world as utter trash. The end result is you realizing the material world is the spiritual world, and vice-versa. The abode is no longer simply just achieved communion through devotional practice…that’s what thought/the internal narrative ever was in the first place…

And now you know (although it didn’t work out financially) why Facebook rebranded as Meta.

It is…what it is.

At least in regards to thought/imagination… or if you happened to have spent some time with the Don Juan types (some of us have)… across worlds…across different states of Being entirely…through any emotion…either while living or even after your death… no matter what the phenomena is… the only appropriate point of reference or intended destination or intended action or intended conception…is somehow summed up by the single word “God”…and that’s proof of his internal potency. Writing philosophy essays about that proves his presence and induces it in individuals.

The Hare Krishnas do it as a manner of practice. Disciplines can be developed…disciplines have been developed in the past. Normal activities, not unlike your school work…they could be constructed.

No one’s paying for this sort of stuff though, and I’m afraid to go out and try to find investors because I feel like idk the grand canyon might just open up beneath me and swallow me whole. Nonetheless, the Hare Krishnas have done it already so…they’re pretty reliable.

Is that a Donnie Darko reference?