Where And What Is My Essence? Poem by Andrew Lee

Where and what is my essence? Who am I? Why am I here?

What is here? Why am I stuck here?

Relax, relax. You are not going anywhere.

We are not going anywhere.

There is nowhere we can go.

There is nowhere we can go.

We come from the Source and will return to the Source.

We are part of Cosmic Awareness, which is the Source.

We are part of Its Unitary Consciousness.

It is everywhere in this cosmos. It permeates the cosmos.

We are a tiny pocket of this Cosmic Awareness.

Our brain is like a TV receptor.

When the brain is healthy and functions normally,

it receives the brain waves of this Unitary Consciousness

and 'I' become conscious and alive!

Our duty on earth is to work with the tissues and genetic materials

of our brain, so as to keep it healthy, normal and clear-headed,

by studying, reading, listening to music, going to the beach,

jogging, exercising, working, helping the needy,

so that the awareness is not hijacked by selfish mental energies.

We try our best to keep the mind and body healthy and functional.

We are vigilant against greed, lust, hatred, selfishness.

These are flashes and sparks of mental energy.

They arise and pass away, not something solid or substantial.

When the brain dies or is damaged or shuts down,

we stop receiving the brain waves of the Unitary Consciousness.

We black out. We become unconscious.

We cease to be a tiny pocket of the Unitary Consciousness.

We have returned to the Source.

We have returned to where we come from.

Holiness of Zen.Holiness of God.Peace of God.

(You may ask: How do you know there is a Source?

I have pondered on this question for 37 years.

From the age of 12 onwards to now, age 49.

I have read hundreds of books and articles

relating to philosophy, comparative religions, the sciences

the humanities and the arts.The answer is:

Because you can ask this question.

You are conscious. You are aware.

No one can deny and refute the fact

that you are conscious now, in this moment.

Because you are conscious now in this moment,

although it may be momentary and passing away,

in the least, you are conscious now in this moment.

Which means, there is something, rather than absolute nothingness.

And this something, this momentary consciousness,

is a small part of this Cosmos.

Thus, there is something in this Cosmos.

And this momentary consciousness, which can think, reflect,

choose to be good and conscientious, and experience feelings

in a string of moments, is part of this Cosmos.

There is something, rather than Nothingness.

It is part of the attribute of the Source, of Godhood.

In short, there is something, rather than absolute nothingness.

Moral evils arise when we let our thoughts and bodies

be led astray by thoughts and desires of selfishess,

greed, lust, hatred.They are flashes of mental energy

that we need to work with, manage, restrain and overcome everyday.

They cannot refute the fact that there is a Source.)

* Postscript:

Readers would ask me: Why use the TV receptor analogy for the human brain?

Maybe you are wrong. The brain cells can generate or produce consciousness as a by-product of chemical reactions in the brain.

I have pondered on this for a long time. I agree that elementary form of awareness (stimuli - response type of consciousness similar to animals)can be generated by the human brain cells, but they cannot produce the higher level of cognitive and spiritual awareness or intelligence.We give you an example.

Have you ever watched on TV the mathematics competitions of precocious children or adult genius? They can calculate and compute vast numbers of multiplication and division within seconds, much faster than the electronic calculators. Or other feats of mental achievements that show supersonic speed of calculation or observational accuracy. Do you know why?

The brain cells in the human brain cannot work so fast. The chemical processes and activities of the human brains cannot work within seconds to obtain those mathematical results with accuracy.

Similarly, when you have a sudden inspiration that helps you to solve a cognitive problem that you have been grappling with for some time, do you feel that you have worked with some kind of higher level of awareness to solve it.

Because the human brains can receive waves of cosmic awareness and intelligence. They enter or interact with that Timeless zone of cosmic awareness and intelligence, and there our human brains work with the cosmic intelligence to obtain the answers.The human brain cells are receptors. They receive and work with cosmic intelligence.

In short, the human brain cells cannot produce or generate the higher level of cognitive and spiritual intelligence, and they cannot producecosmic intelligence.

And the waves and sub-atomic waves of cosmic awareness and intelligence pass through our brains and bodies all the time. They also pass through the material items in this world all the time.They control this cosmos and prevents the world from falling apart of disintegrating.They give rise to the laws of physics, chemistry and other sciences in this cosmos which apply throughout this cosmos. This is Cosmic Awareness and Intelligence at work in this cosmos.

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