Riffin' On that Enigmatic, Proper and Balanced Diet

“16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3: 16-17

This here is one of those strange lil’ dudes that warrants a second translation, for the sake of thoroughness/an uptick in clarity…

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

Ah the wonders of scripture, life’s ultimate point of reference. If everything that is happening or has happened has arisen from the same focal point, the “Origin”…the Source, “God”… then it follows that literally the only place you need to turn for the dawning of effective sensibility at any given moment, when faced with any situation, ever…is that point of reference.

Boy, howdy (as in… “Howdy, boy…”). Perhaps this is a great vantage point for the notion of the old-timers…that it’s painstakingly simple.

Both in the sense that it hurt a lot to get to this realization…to not simply hear the words, but get to the point in which the lucidity was earned and the epiphany is engrained in the very foundation of your being, as well as in the sense that from here on out you’ll be apt to stick a singular claim into all facets of material existence, somehow “claiming” it in the name of the Origin, to see all things as somehow perfect at some level, and part of a grander plan which will most definitely blow our minds, in addition to eroding the frailties we equated with the human condition, much as in Egyptian myth when the goddess Iris used divine flames to make the human child she was tasked with rearing/babysitting divine/eternal. (“Anybody feelin’ a weenie roast?”)

This is the activity of life for all subjective beings, actually. We use facets of the material world which are endowed with the “eternal principle” that is “God’s breath/will” and we engage these with our life activities…our thoughts and our actions and the such. Eventually these things help us to self-actualize in young adulthood, burning away the dead and decaying aspects of ourselves that accumulated like fat deposits in the karma of our youths, which is a karma of being utterly ignorant. Such is true of all young creatures…you gotta learn how to live before you can truly live.

If God is the singular “point” or intention of any given moment, then we’ve figured out the meaning of life and if you just kick your feet up, we’ll send Bill Gates with the stretch limo, never mind how, there really is no understanding the ultimate mystery but…it’s over. We’ve won. We’ll send the stretch limo.

Turns out, that at some level, it’s a lot like how that episode of the Office got everyone excited about the windows screensaver with the box bouncing around the screen, because the box is about to perfectly hit the right angle of one of the four corners…and then does…and then everyone who enjoyed that episode hoped it would happen in real life, but quickly many of us became aware that it’s like programmed to where that never happens in real life….

Even after you “crack it”, what you’ve cracked is a compass regarding what to do with the finite moments of your life…your time and your experiences…and that this isn’t going to pull you out of these experiences at all, but instead deeper into them and… which is a clunky way of saying, the situation facing the enlightened is the very same situation every human being, every individual life form, at that, actually, is faced with, day to day. This is the thumb we are all living under, the real, actual framework that amounts to the real actual drama of our various lives…you try to “crack it” because the dynamics of the world itself compulse you into doing as much. It’s what you ought to be doing, seeing everything in terms of the Singularity…

Let’s return back to the word “painstaking”. Usually it’s used as a descriptor of efforts to avoid pain. One uses great care and deliberation to stake a claim in the face of pain. You use advantageous parts of the Singularity to burn away other aspects of the Singularity which are threatening to cause suffering. There is always a way to do this…always a way to negate the potential for suffering.

There is no way to negate the inevitable triumph of Love, supreme.

This isn’t a world of relativity. The game is always rigged in such a fashion that the good easily wins out, and the difficulty setting is never too high.

Then again we’ve all lost loved ones so… it’s one of those things in which you need to be vigilant, is a non zealous way, at the level of culture.

Once you figure out the thing to pivot to when faced with all…with anything at all…is the Supreme…God… very quickly that becomes “not enough” and suddenly you are directed to “scripture”. Scripture is powerful and dope. It is a nonpersonal emanation of God…which is why the language of today’s passage refers to it as “God-breathed”…they mean to convey that He is exhaling his spirit, and the spirit hovers out of Him and becomes material, becoming the words in the Bible. It’s a powerful thing, an important image to internalize…

One that is aware of the capacity for ignorance to make Images of the Divine into mere crutches…and crutches ultimately inhibit our intended mobility. On one hand, it’s incredibly comforting to objectify God, and to do so as one object apart from others…"Scripture is special, it’s God incarnate"…to know as much is necessary, and incredibly empowering. But if we were to think that this is true of Scripture, and never true of tv shows or lectures given or simply overheard conversations or really any bit of sensory data, we’ve fallen into a fallacy of sorts, and misunderstood that ultimate goal of "communion".

The big “a-ha” moment for most renowned spiritual individuals occurs when they have that big epiphany, oft on the cusp of the beginning of their social works, that the whole damn thing is Scripture…it’s all “God-breathed” in each and every moment…that the material world is but the spirit-y belch of the Father God, and everything is always very much in sublimation to his will…a will that seems to be offering itself in sublimation to the schemes of your spiritually actualized psyche. Their efficacy comes through sorcery in that they have many thousands of sets of arms and legs, somehow.

Everything is potentially “scripture”. But scripture isn’t just…stuff…its truth. Scripture has an understanding that empowers and is thorough…an understanding that is equal with communion with the Source of Life as this is what it really is, as well as the effect it has. Things we witness can be scripture. If we really try hard, almost everything we experience can be seen as scripture.

Still, some things you see…clearly are not scripture.... in that whatever experience they ultimately draw you into, it leaves you in a bad place, utterly disconnected and just plain hurt. It helps to know there's a place you can go when you find that you simply are no longer there, but it really offends our very natures to say we can't stay there once we do find it.

Sometimes as far as you can get with it is really “I know that’s not truth but…that’s as much will power as I’m supposed to dedicate to this one…” Aloof...

Wouldn’t it be sweet if every little bit of sensory data was, at least at the level of subtext, communicating to us exactly what we need to do to self-actualize and slip into utter bliss? “So that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work?”

If that were so, what we’d be living is nearly scripture, incarnate, or at the very least, would be on a trajectory for becoming as much. It’d be like our experience of the world itself would see it as if it was arising in live-time from the breath of the Almighty.

Which gets to my ending. If you seek God, you will find him in every nook and corner. If you seek God on a personal level, and go into it wisely, you do succeed, and many of us are actually now a few years into that grind. It’s just that simple, it works just that directly/frankly, and we are blind to just how potent and perfect a lot of it really is.