~ Dhamma ~ Holy Spirit ~

I would like to start without words, terms, that the reader might already have bound a meaning to, thus avoiding misunderstandings on the content of this text. We all have heard of life energies, energy waves, waves of life, and we have our meaning for them, was it 'crap', 'divine knowledge', 'regrettable misinformation', or anything. What we should do is to forget any previous meaning and open our mind to whatever there is to be found.

To understand Dhamma (which can be observed in practice in the post-enlightenment life of the Buddha), we should understand the concept of the self in life. We have our own self, and so does any other living being on Earth, was it conscious or not. The self tries to do its best protecting its existence in this universe of ours, and the deeper the knowledge it has in itself, the broader are the means, the better the tools available.

Our universe is complex beyond any understanding. In addition to the dimensions we can observe in our everyday life, the science of today leaves various options for more dimensions an open mind could explore. Furthermore, any theory might not be complete in itself, leaving even more space for a curious imagination.

Any person familiar with mathematics accepts the fact that when there are more dimensions, there must be mappings to be found to reach these dimensions and come back to our standard reality. The most common example on this is complex mathematics: it was realized as an area of science when traditional calculations reached a point in which part of an equation became illegal, but when left as a black box, the illegal state vanished later, giving a perfectly legal solution in the end. This gave birth to the complex plane, defined by i, i^2 = -1.

When we accept that in our universe, there might be more dimensions than the three common ones, we may also accept that there might be portals to these dimensions, and back to the common universe. Now, if we think of the self of all life as a multidimensional entity, and we feel other life as we feel ourselves, without discrimination, without pity but in balance, then we can get in contact with Dhamma, the universal love and life, and holding it in our heart we can deliver positive, peaceful energy to our surroundings. What we can do with this knowledge is beyond our imagination.

What is holy spirit? Is it given from the above? It surely must be found somewhere before we know what it is, what it feels like. You call it what you will, I call it Dhamma, and I say that knowing Dhamma, we can shut down volcanoes, calm down the core of our planet, and find eternal peace.

Practice: meditate a volcano, feel it bursting in your heart, feel its pure energy in freedom, and let your heart gradually calm it down. Then think of another person, meditate their perspective on this, and let your heart again calm down. Try to do this six billion times and you see what we are about. How could we build gaia?

(2010-06-13, edited)