Riffin' On Romans 6:23 (Karma and Engaging the Eternal Principle)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

The duality of life is that at any given moment it truly can be appropriate to view the world entirely in terms of what ought to happen, and sin. Ethical wrongdoing is what we most often think of when we regard sin, and this is to our own efficacy- doing as much is super practical to do in a number of instances in which you regard sin. However, there seems to be a pervasive deficiency in the vantage point, in our day to day lives, that action can be split into the branches of “fate”, which sees a loving universe conspiring to fulfill us personally, and ignorance, which is born of human sensibility, most of which has the most sacred of intent. Method is paramount when it comes to the moment at hand, and when we regard moments themselves as inherently sacred, as spiritual experiences, what we can manifest spontaneously with them becomes meaningful/potent.

It would be a bit imbalanced to stay miracle-centric in your approach to phenomena, but this is ultimately what spiritual paths do seem to do for serious devotees, so it is an affair that is undertaken, just not by human agents. As far as any one seems to be concerned, men and women of God, no matter the religion, appear to also be people who live lives eerily similar to that of those in the rest of society…. Apparently this is a goal that can be accomplished across time, with grace.

The point of the feedback loops of the universe are to unconsciously condition us to act within parameters in which we do produce meaningful results with our actions…life teaches us to be and stay kind…it teaches us to live in a heart forward fashion. Our bouts of suffering/frailty…these things are in sublimation to such a universal process, often, and are best managed from this perspective, making the life of religious devotion seem…particularly enticing to the astute. It has been this way for some time with devotion and “secular” societies.

A rabid magnetism in efficacy occurs when one consciously recognizes as much and leans into this process of universe earnestly. When they see the desert for the sand and call the mechanics of life for what they are/what their aims are… to do as much is to remove the mask from the wizard… the mask of God from the cosmos…to experience the Universe as It.

The consequences of engaging the moment at hand, framed lovingly by the carpenter that is the Father, in such a manner that you don’t engage the eternal principle of Love effectively…if you don’t do what you ought to do in a general sense of growing the prospects of social love ever richer (and there are millions of ways to go about doing as much) with the opportunities available to you, you experience a sense of “disconnect” from Source that is synonymous with losing a sense of personal empowerment/groundedness. Religio as a root word means “linking back” and religion was always a series of methods by which one can increase a conscious sense of that link rather than disassociating from its existence with sinful/ignorant action… a sense of “communion” with Source.

To engage the moment at hand as if it is a spiritual experience meant to bring all into a sense of meaningful communion with Source that serves the prospects of social life/the dreams of individuals… is to engage “life” itself…it allows you to bring a lot of light and love and outright “life” into the world with your actions. These were infusions of God’s framing…doing the right thing is how they come about… we are the acting agents who can make them happen. They’ll probably happen one way or another, but if we all do our part…

The “gift” of God is “eternal life” and that’s “in” “Christ Jesus” in the sense that the Christ (as a social role like batman) or example of Jesus is a role any human can opt into, it is simply righteousness focalized respectfully in Christ’s name, it is to do God’s will at any moment… by doing as much you legitimately bring “life” into this world in a medicinal way… it’s that invisible thing which keeps this all flowing…we all are the driving mechanism of the cosmos with our various behaviors… the hands and eyes of Vishnu so to speak…that which continues the creation began in Genesis. We are an embodiment of God, collectively, existence itself…and not even but a part of. (My new take on Genesis/the Old Testament is that God fades a bit as a direct character because He’s now being embodied by the creation He just made).

Notice that they note that our “gift” is in our “Lord”? What does that mean? It means that Jesus Christ is the shape of the will of the universe. The universe is his keyboard, and he’s wailing away on it. It means, hilariously, that their idea of hell makes no sense and the idea of meaningful temptation also makes no sense, because temptation is just one part of the symphony being conducted. If the overall shape/tone of the whole production is the disposition of Jesus Christ, then temptation is negated if it was ever meaningful at all…it’s a tool of God’s (just like when he chose to have Jesus tempted in the desert) and as with all other things, even though its nasty and shouldn’t be used/exist… it means that the dynamics of life/phenomena, which truly are “lord” over a lot of our actions, force us to grow into the image of God across time, not something fallow. It means the universe makes holy people, inherently, and that life is a sacred institution, as is society.

When we transform in a meaningful way the very perceptions of the institution of action in such a fashion that we see all productive/medicinal action not in secular terms, but in terms of engaging the Source through disciplined behaviors such as exercise and proper diet, etc. … we will actually have returned to a place of sanity as a culture. If you probe our academic disciplines and see what the big cats came to realize in each one, ultimately you see that the scientific method can’t account for even the most basic of things/moments in the world…you realize that the scientific worldview really is constructed to be in a sort of sublimation to the devotional worldview, and that the latter asks for more academic discipline/pursuit than the former/is the only path through academia which seems to explain it allll…

A rabid and acute exploration of all there is to know seems to eventually land back at the point that it’s impossible to know or experience anything at all but by the grace of God, and after that acknowledgement, with deference to the notion that this thing is alive, that It’s plotting and has a will… Infinity first becomes possible. For the first time ever, the actions of the thinking, acting agent have a reasonable chance of embodying the Infinite, Loving Power of God totally, effectively… spontaneity falls to will; ritual is born.

At the risk of being a jerk...we live in an era where the interpretation of the New Testament has been butchered for some time. There are transcendental interpretations that were harmed by overly literal interpretations of Christ's plight. We all are "sons or daughters of God" who descended from Heaven to save humanity, and ascended after our deaths to heaven to "advocate" it. The dynamics of life means we're all the "One"...which isn't as much dramatic as it is absurdly silly/fun. It's like the Afterparty on Apple Tv or something...star studded and filled with powerful stories/personal journeys/lots of meaning (also, I wrote this stoned in some sort of half-baked protest regarding...the pace of modern living. Yes, the pace of modern living..).