Albert Herdianto Widjojo
Being lazy to drive, I went using an online taxi service to work. Shortly after I got into the vehicle, I saw a book placed on the car console. Oh, I know that book. An old book called “When the Universe Speaks”, a local book written by Balinese, I Wayan Mustika. Inevitably, we discussed the contents of the book along the way. For me, people who are willing to read, to understand, and discuss such material are people who are open-minded and not bound by the dogma of their own religious teachings. Here are a few excerpts from the book.
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Who am I? I am your sister. I’m your brother too. I’m your wife and husband at the same time. I’m your grandfather and grandmother. I am your big child, because you dwell in the womb of your small heart. I am also a stunted parent because you often ignore and think that it is so small that it never even existed. I am a friend you hate when I do not help you and enemies that you love especially when I fulfill all your interests.
I am the dark you avoid or the light you seek. I am the heaven you dream of and the hell you avoid. I am the angel you worship and the devil you hate. I am the one you always call in suffering and then you forget in happiness. I am the one you are chasing in front of you then you leave far behind. I am the tears that flow from the tears of happiness and tears of your suffering.
I am all the duality you have ever known, but I myself am between the two. I am a space that never moves and time that never rolls. I am the eternity of what you see as immortality.
I am what you call by various names and names of your idols. But then you fight with your neighbor just because of the different names you created for me, who are actually just one.
I am very close to you but often you call as if I were so far from you, in an infinite place. I am what you seek with your limited mind, until you understand that I am an unlimited mind. I am what you are trying to hug with your small body which is actually being held in my fist.
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I’m sure you know who is meant by “I” there, right?
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God himself is talking. He’s making Himself known that He’s the great creator of the universe and He’s Omnipresent and Omniscient. We should be grateful for Him. He’s caring for us. He does love us. I am so thankful that I know Him, believe Him and have faith in Him.
That’s outstanding, Gil. You are a true believer and so devout!
Thanks Albert. I am just saying what I feel is true.
You are most welcome, Gil.
That’s all fine. I am happy to hear that Albert.
I believe that something exists somewhere above us. How sensitive we are to this depends on ourselves. Whether we want to accept it or not.
You are right, the evolution of civilization has shown that humans in all ages recognize that there is something far more powerful than humans.
Yes, the word God has many meanings, I think sometimes people use that name to do evil things to others.
I am who I am…I may call the universe.
I don’t have all the answers but used to be trapped by others peoples rules, I realised I could never serve them all and had to in the end do my best to what I thought was right.
Very good and deep insight Albert….I wonder if people get caught up in what people think of as being perfect rather than dealing with life as it is?
The people in my country are generally very religious, however, many people have been partitioned into various sects. I myself have withdrawn from all that partition rooms. However I try not to harm anyone from any religious group, and that is not easy to remember because many people are fanatical, though sorry, rather hypocritical in some sense. Many people get angry when they think that their religion is understood incorrectly, or they feel their worship is disturbed, but they don’t want to be scolded if they are caught stealing or corruption or else.
Funny, they unite religion, perfect thought with everyday life but at the same time separating it.
I applaud anyone who makes an effort to do good, religious or not. That is certainly better than the out right destruction of drunken parties around some places in New Zealand. I am talking about drugs, alcohol, fights and murder or theft or damage to property. I used to have a person living near me who hurt quite a lot of people and had no intention of changing their behaviour even though just about everyone wanted to help that person.
Now this person is gone, people hide if their face is seen.
I agree with you, Pamela. We must appreciate every effort of those who do good but also must learn to thank those who do chaos because of them we also learn something.
You are right Albert, we certainly learn.
I would say, God. He is everywhere and always with us!
You have a deep understanding of it, Karen!
I know I have a lot to learn dear teacher. I do believe in one God creator of heaven and earth.
As said, dear teacher, “Your faith saves you” as long as the Earth does not bind you to heaven.
Everything is beautifully written, it’s just not clear to me, dear friend …. you know I’m not faithful and maybe that’s why I don’t understand anything completely … I say rightly …. I know you will understand me
It’s okay if you don’t understand it completely, dear friend. You know, I’m not a faithful person either.
I do not know that deep thinking, dear Albert
On many occasions, simple thinking is much better, dear Lado.
It’s better for me because I don’t know otherwise, my friend …
I see the “I” as being “Me”, my conscience, my spiritual being, but it all depends on one’s perspective.,
Well, at least someone’s perspective can describe what they believe, right?
If you believe in God, this post explains the concept very well. I am trying really hard to know he is still there for me. Thank you for these posts, they have been missed greatly.
I’m sure you keep trying to find out in every way, such as contemplation or meditation, just don’t forget that it is the Divine who always encourages you to know his existence in there so that you can meet and realize Him/Her.
The essence of what is, in I. I am a part of you.
And I am part of you too, and also everything…
-) the essence of all, within us all.
The more I know you, the more I know myself, Doc.
that is the shell right, that once connection occurs one breaks the shell and moves into the next phase of being.
The further I go, the more I see that you are the right teacher for me.
i have much to learn, and find you to be the perfect teachers for me!
What if we sit in the same class and sit next to each other?
i would like that, to teach and be taught, that is the best!
The universe speaks to us constantly, but you hear what it tells you only if you are calibrated on its frequency and you really want it.
I completely agree with the opinion of an engineer like you! It’s just that no one else will calibrate or tune us but ourselves (“we”, in the broadest sense).
I always agree with what you say!! We have to work hard to calibrate ourselves!
Your sentence frightens me, Ileana. Don’t agree with me but agree with yourself, because the “I” in you is the owner of the “Kingdom of Heaven”. This is serious.??
That feeling of oneness with universe. Is that what is called spirituality?
For me, spirituality is how we know and fully realize ourselves, our souls, higher awareness, our spirit in Mighty Spirit.
I am still some way to go, I guess.
You are very humble about that, dear friend.
To each their own. I understand ‘I’ to be God who manifests in different forms as explained in that book.
We often say when someone comes to our rescue that in reality it was God who was there in that form. Just a thought.
Yes, “I” who meant there in that book is God, who manifests into everything, really everything!
Thanks for shearing but I want to know that are you book lover?
Yes, I am a lover of books, because since I was young I sought answers about my true self, which had never been answered by a religious approach, but in the last few decades, I read books mainly because my profession needed an update of knowledge.
Wao! I also want to be like you..
Hmmm… Actually I want to be like you too, dear friend.
“But there is only one “I”, and it is me. All other “I’s” are just dots on my “I”, replies God.
“I often think that, but if oneness, is oneness, there is not even an “I” with a dot out there, only a capital “I”, ” I replied.
“Yes, the “i’s” do not have what the “I’s” have until they remove their dot, and trying to make their dot on my “I”, said God.
Who is to blame in that context? The language? Religion? Our unconsciousness? or is it really homework to be done by humanity? Or is part of human learning after birth and its highest consciousness covered by a curtain of ego?
Yes, probably all of that, and yet if we try to shift the blame, we will never see the truth in the “I”.
It seems to me that the journey is through consciousness, from unconscious knowing to conscious knowing.
It was great! There is nothing to blame indeed. We only need to learn to see from two sides, the side in front of the veil of the ego – outward life – and the real-life that is inside and realize both of them as important realities.
Blame usually directs us ourwards, and acceptance allows us the inner sight inwards.
At times, both outward and inward sight are needed, but in the end, the eye of “I” is neither inward nor outward.
It is just what it is, “I am who I am”, said God to Moses, and it is the same with us too. “We is who we is,” as popeye the sailor man used to say.
Well written , thanks for sharing
Thanks for visit and comment, my friend.
The futility of trying to understand the infinite with a peanut sized brain . Nicely written.
Haha… An impressive comment, dear friend. Maybe the brain is quite wide, but some people have imprisoned his mind in a room as wide as dust.
The size of the brain might be larger but it is finite and layered in dust and mire. 😀
Then who has to clean all the layers of dust and mire, dear friend?