Play dough self

Once upon a time there was a piece of play-dough that went nuts because it wanted to be its authentic self and it had none.

For the time being, it was looking like a giraffe with a knot in its neck. The feeling was horrible.

"Poor bit of nothing special" said a bright yellow Buddha with pink eyes, "the authentic self is but an illusion!"

A hand grasped the Buddha and turned it into a laughing cow. The giraffe with a knot in its neck had an epilepsy crisis which paradoxically untangled it.

Dear bits and pieces or nothing special, you will live happily ever after anyway.

 

Invisible bridge over the river

Many different people have many different truths, and that's alright...

Now, if my truth is that there is a bridge over the river when in fact there is none, I am at risk of getting wet. 

If I invite other people to walk with me on the bridge that doesn't exist, this could be worrying for those who don't see any bridge over the river. They will wonder....Can they all swim? Leave my children alone! 

They will tell me that I am wrong to talk about a bridge that doesn't exist to gullible people and I will feel upset about it.

But that's my truth! That's my right to share my truth! There is a bridge over the river! Cross it now. Don't let the mind and its fears hold you back.

Don't you see me walking on it?



Jean-Marc Pierson
http://jeanmarcpierson.com

Once upon a time, time!

-When did time begin?

-Time began at the beginning of time!

-When was that?

-Before

-Before what?

-Before anything happened.

-So you think there was a time when something happened for the first time?

-Maybe...Maybe not. Maybe things have always been happening. Maybe time has always been passing by but never began...

-It's more likely that time actually started at some point. If the past was as long as infinite, it would have taken an eternity before being now.  If it was the case, now would not have happened yet, and would never ever happen. 

 For now to happen now, it must have taken some time before it happens, but not an infinity...

-That's it. So let's assume that time once started. What was there before time started?

-There was nothing. Before time started, there was no before. You need time to have something before something else.

-At the beginning of time, there was a present moment with a future and no past.

-And at the end of time there will be a present moment with a past and no future.

-But maybe there will not be an end. Just because it once started doesn't prove it must stop.

-May we all be happy forever after!

-Yes indeed. Anyway, if time once started and things began to happen there must be some kind of eternal dimension out of which the stuff happened?

-Could be...Unless it just popped up, I don't know....