This is a response to a message question asked of me about Rpm's of life, the get go of the world I know. Below is the message respond I sent to a friend.
Hello KK,
No one has ever asked me about my interpretation of life's rpm's of life, I just saw it this way from childhood up. Growing up Christian faith, I saw of people a lack of heart with the Lord. I mean by this they were just not "there." They were going to church, acting and seemingly real, but after church the people that were this way became secular again. To the ways of the world. They lacked spiritual depth, if they had any at all.
They had not any "heart" for gospel, per say. If they did for the Lord, it was on Sunday only. "Sunday religion" my mother used to say. All during the week they acted of the world, and themselves doing things even to be wrongful that the Bible notably spells out as sin.
So I pondered this, thinking about it, and noticed that it is a way of things. After I thought about this awhile, I realized what some of those who lacked heart, were doing. They were doing what has been done for thousands of years. Of the world. Whatever it is. Is in their heart.
And I noticed too, all that was of the world, seems to stem from a source. This source is what we do. We have to work to earn money, which provides of life to us, money is a source for provision. Been like that for a very long time.
Then I noticed how the world is with division as much as provision. Growing up I saw Democrats and Republicans, then other. Government going on. Here is this division of politics, than everyone is a part of. You are one side or the other. Could it be this division is in their heart I thought. Sure seemed like it. Many people are adamant in their thinking of politics and government.
Back then too, I noticed something that is terrible with the world. I found it has been using sex for a long, long, time too. Even for the provision of life to oneself. Sex can be for pleasure and/or money. And sex dominates of many.
By the time I reached my teens, I put it together. And amazingly came up with something that the world seems to go with. A get go off the world. I couldn't believe it. When you couple those ways with one another, associate them, you get something. Something just like is known of an automobile engine running. How it is measured. By RPM. Now with nomenclature of cars, that's revolutions per minute. Especially of the western world.
I looked at that, and was amazed at what I already knew, before I ever knew about autos. It fit. RPM makes cars go from the engines running, and religion, politics, money, and sex, make the world go round. At least with what many people do.
It most certainly fit. Rpm's of life I came up with. The get go of the world. Just like an engine running a car. The engine cycles round and round, revolving back to a starting point in its revolutions. So it is with people. We start everyday anew again. We go though cycles. Sleep, eat, church, shave, bathe, the car runs low on fuel and you get more for it, you take care of your children day to day, on and on, and on.
What I found out with this, in the part of religion, it is the religion that is dominant with some folk. Just like a job. Or something to do even. It is not there in their heart. They attend church every Sunday, believe in God, yet when they walk out that door, its back to the rpm's again. And looking closer at this with some people, they're not with the Lord I can tell. They think they are, but they aren't. They're thinking just being in church will save them is one way of putting it. Just attending church, because it is what you have done since a kid, and this is the way of things you know.
But all that while, the Lord spoke to you, and you ignored Him, just thinking about what I'm going to do after church let's say. The cookout, movie, sex with my girlfriend, running around the park jogging, driving the car around, taking a bath again, playing with the kids, or my pets, and including working on a hobby as another mentioning.
This just doesn't stay put to after church on Sunday, it's all during the week included as much. This rpm's of life knows no time, its always. Anytime. And that time dominates life to different folk different ways. Maybe the dominant factor is religion, or the politics of government with how you see and feel towards the side you are. Then obviously money is a great powerhouse for many, many people. Wealth and the pursuit of it. And I don't even have to begin to tell you how much sex is a super force for people. Sex is as much a power as money.
All in all I saw this. And these dominant forces at work. And how people interacted with it. And how life flowed with rpm's and people.
I must add in one more thing about religion. Before I go anymore with this writing. The religion powerhouse can be a political type life as much. It becomes politics to some. More important for example to be a Catholic, than to know God. Or a Mormon. Or Buddhist, Taoist, across the philosophical alphabet to include religion and faith, ending maybe at Zoroastrianism. Your heart's in the faith, and label of it, not the meaning behind it. You walk as an illusion of being that, like an act. And I will say too, you can do that ignorantly, not knowing. You can get lost in faith, just as much as knowing it by heart. It is what you do with it putting it there in your heart. And God knows your heart so He knows how truthful you are with yourself and Him, even in ignorance, or being fully aware of your position with God.
So I have found more to this story than just rpm's of life. It is our awareness that can keep us from the Lord, and even being aware we stay away just as much. Either by ignoring and going our own way anyway, or in not knowing and doing sin per say out of ignorance. You might think awareness is the answer. Buddhism, Zen, are a couple doctrines that claim awareness, or the lack of it, is one answer to us living wrongful lives. How much is awareness? And of that awareness, is what you know the truth? What do you believe? Is your thinking the truth? Your thoughts your own? How do you know? Is it by just going along and saying so? Trust? What depth do you put those thoughts to heart? How much intention does this play with you? What's your intention for life and afterlife? Do you even believe in it?
These are many questions a person can ponder of the thoughts of ourselves, and just as much put to humankind.
What do we do with all that? How does a person look at life and bring themselves forward. How much is trust being betrayal? What do we claim for God honesty? Is it us? Or God? How do you even begin? Or start over?
Here's one way. Retrofit. With a word. Adapt. Another word and way. Adopt yet another word, to a way. What is this fix? It brings you to truth, as close as you know to being here and there at the same time.
Retrofit is a good word I use to say, whatever your position now, no matter what you've become of life with yourself, use this to move on in life, with adapting a new way, either by consolidation, incorporation, or both into your life, and adoption of life to a new meaning, and purpose you can see, that brings truth to you. How?
Simple.
Open to God.
Now I use those three letters as a definition of meaning. If you're Gnostic or Agnostic, look at that as gnosticism of divine. If you might be Hindu, Buddhist, a faith of Eastern way, even Shugendo, you could say Great Omnipotent Deity.
Christian folk of sort can just simply say God overpowers demons.
Even God over death, in that God, is everlasting life, with Him, though His Son, you'll not know death, eternal damnation to Hell. So that those who know God the Father, will forever live life eternal free of the damnation of eternal death in Hell.
Can you see the point here? What "one pointedness" Taoists might say, or maybe the Zen folk. A focus of wide to narrow bringing to a conclusion the truth, the source, the divine, the great deity, the father, whom we generically call God.
Now with this "one pointedness" who is the central focus of ourselves in life. Is it us or life itself? Do we live a life to our own, or is there something out there, maybe trying to tell us something. What I have found, mostly is from experience. That says to me from childhood up, there is something out there. I have had experience to say with my mind and heart, looking at life there is more to this existence than mere nothingness. So this experience is a one pointedness of a sort. Can I narrow down enough with this to bring it to a point. If so then how? By what? Whom? Maybe I can throw in where, when, and why?
Like the saying many now of life as multiple choice of questions, the who, what, where, when, how, and why, not necessarily in order of that. Generally though, it starts out as who. Who. Who is this experience of? Me? What me? Is this me a part of this experience? Sure I am. And the last two words are a notable known for the beginning, I am. Which if you look at those two words, mean, I existed, as in before, I'm here now, as in the moment, and I will be, meaning the future to come.
Out of this experience I am a person, who. I have an identity. I am known. Known to who? Yourself. What is the yourself? It is you the identity. Identity of what? The experience. Experience of what? Life. Life known. Now who, brought this identity to you? Other. Other what? Life, from known. Life is an identity experience known to you. It tells you who and what somewhat of the experience. What is limited about this is us, as we are. Human beings. We only know what we know and do.
That brings us to other. Other? Yes, other. If something is out there, like life experience has shown me, then there is an other. Who has shown me life. Who is this who? By the label a Taoist would say, Tao. Lao from history, who wrote the Tao could only call it Tao. To Lao, you might say that Lao, knew God. God is the Tao. So God has shown me the way. Way of things, from life experience. That is what Taoist believe, life is a way of things, known and maybe unknown.
Now of this way of things, what is included in this that we know and don't know. Evil for one, whether it exists of light or dark. Evil can be a label for darkness as well as light. If your not evil and do wrong, are you evil? How much does ignorance play a part for the generic of not knowing as an innocent child? Awareness is one knowing of that. Intention is another matter of that. But then too, you might be knowing and aware and ignore what you know. The same can be said of not knowing. You can be unaware for yourself and do wrong. You can not knowingly intend to do wrong, and be not aware and enter into sin.
How does sin play in this? Sin to me is the intention of willful act to hurt, kill, and destroy. Sin can also be the ignorant intention of willful act to hurt, kill, and destroy. Ignorant both in knowing and not knowing. Well then how do we know? By realization of the fact you hurt. You hurt another which hurts yourself. Both in knowing and ignorance. Buddhists would say this charges up the karma of life that will come back to haunt you, in this life or the next. It balances out from a Taoist aspect as well.
If you go around doing hurt, you're gonna get hurt. So the opposite of that is not hurt, be good. If you're good to another, life will come back to good and to you. When you're good to yourself life stays good to you. Because you balance on the side of good, to flow along with that. You don't cross the boarder into darkness to enable the condition of life that will come to you when in light, that darkness will come upon you. Ignorantly or willfully. You can choose too, to walk over there into darkness, knowing it. Or let it take you. Because you didn't flow with life.
How is it then you can flow with life to stay in light? And how is it that life is light and good like? From the experience. Experience is life light, not heavy weighted darkness. Darkness brings burden upon you. Weight of life known. How do you lift this burden? Awareness of life, known, showing you from experience that life is good whether you are in darkness or light, and even standing in the middle.
How is this done? Well that can be just plain awareness you may find out of yourself from realizing experience. It may be that the other gives you signs to show you. My experience has been that. Signs. Signs, signs, everywhere signs, blocking the scenery, breaking my mind...do this don't do that, can't you read the sign...everywhere signs...is an old rock song from Five Man Electrical Band back from the day if my memory is right.
An other has shown me signs. Tao I found out. Cause I was Taoist then. Still am to a degree. Tao to me is God. The Tao that cannot be told. God is just three letters just the same as Tao. It is a word. Tao is a label, God is a label. We identify with those three letters today, God. God is who gave me signs. And I read those signs. Doing that lead me to know something. God is talking to me. He is a light force by label, who is neither light nor dark. Why do I state that? Because God, like Tao, cannot be told. What is told is the Bible, just like Lao wrote the Tao. Lao inspired from his wisdom wrote the Tao as an asking from someone, according to legend, just before he rode off to infinity to be at peace. Who might have inspired Lao, who was that person, that entity who was there and asked him to put Tao in writing to leave behind a knowing of that? We don't know. But it might have been God.
And so is this with the writing of the Bible. God inspired men of knowledge and wisdom to write and record the Bible to know of Him. Like Lao, all the great saints, persons, put down in writing about the way of things they knew, inspired of their beliefs of the life at the time. Their belief of God, who, made Himself known, in writing. The Bible tells of a way of things. That we can follow, if you put that to heart, you will lift the weighted burden of life.
Now you may ask me, why have I written about Tao, talking about Lao, and mix this with the Bible. Where's Jesus in this?
Timing and location. Jesus wasn't where Lao was at the time Lao was, where Lao was. The closest we can come to that part of known, about that, is the legend per say, of the "Jaded One." Who came to those parts in history to tell of the way of things, as with the Bible. Who was this Jaded One? Jesus I believe. Makes sense. There are mysteries even known today if you look hard enough for them, that claim Jesus knew Buddha. Jesus traveled to mystical land, and I just say mystical as a word to say mysterious, because all these claims are not proven and it is legend like. Where Buddha lived you might say was mystical, mysterious, compared to living in England or France at the time. Or even Rome.
Jaded One. Who? Jesus. Jesus I think traveled more than we know. Jesus spread His knowledge and awareness across more lands than we know, and it He either did not tell, or was lost to history as the Bible writers did not want that put in there, because that came from mystical lands, whom they might have thought to be living in sin and evil.
The Bible is what it is today, even from the power and money that Roman Catholic bible came to be. The empire coupled with the Vatican, Templar's, all that, eventually ending up with a doctrine to tell and guide people to righteousness to stop the wars, hurt, kill, and destroy the world knew at those times. I believe there was a profit motive to it as well.
God knew what He was doing, blinded the Romans were, and the Catholic faith at the time, thinking their doctrine was to be the word of God, their own. The deceivers were deceived themselves.
So God spread His Word to the world, through the recorded words the Bible is, from His Son, Jesus, who is there in the Bible recorded as is. Who might have been the "Jaded One," to those mystical lands. I have not any known knowledge of proof of this and if you know more than I, that is good and well. Grace be with you.
Now that the water has boiled down and I'm getting near the end of this writing, it is what it is. If you can comprehend this "one pointedness," point being, Jesus. He is the One. The one who shared His belief, which is truth, to these lands, the world. Now of this, obviously, there have been distortions, intentional, and neglected ways as well, for the Bible was written a very long time ago. Same as the Tao. We can claim today, the Tao isn't what it was when first written.
I could say the same thing about the different versions of bibles that exist as writing. Why do we have the ones we do? There is the King James, the Roman Catholic, I don't have to laundry list them. BibleGateway dot com has over 50, and in many languages.
Point being again, the message is there, as a Taoist can get out of Lao's Tao. The Bible speaks truth no matter what language or version. It is the Word of God. Recorded with Jesus in there. Why didn't Jesus make it into Tao? Jesus wasn't there when Lao was. He might have been the "Jaded One" traveling around but Lao never knew Jesus. Lao knew the experience of the Father, God.
It is mysterious, that the Tao Te Ching was written around 270 A.D., and this is around the time Buddha was talking in his area about his belief. Neither Buddha or Lao ever met that I knew. I know of doctrine that says Lao met Confucius, whom said Lao was like a dragon, and I can understand this as I know Buddhism just as much as the Bible in knowledge, that the dragon is a force not easily comprehended by the human mind. Was Confucius indoctrinated himself unknowingly by his way by the dragon of Buddhism? Unknown.
You have to know in my belief too, Jesus might have traveled as a child or young man. We don't know the date Jesus specifically died on the cross there. It could have been to 33 A.D. He didn't live long. Jesus impressed with wise men of old as it states in the Bible.
Why was He known as the "Jaded One" I know someone is questioning? His skin color. Like the jade stone of mysterious lands. Especially China regions at those times. Is this an inherited trait come to age because the Son of God is precious and that like the dog wood tree, whom sorrowed over being the wood for cross of cruxifiction? And the fact He might have been there, and those people used the jade stone to represent precious, relating to Jesus skin color, so jade stone to this day is a precious type stone? One can think about that.
Okay, I wrote this writing to answer someone who is friend to me, known as KK, symbolically know that way, in well meaning of two letters. To answer about rpm's of life. I don't know if I did that. What I ended up here with, is an answer to a question that may or may not be known.
The answer that is known, is Jesus. Who is the Son of God, who we can know from experience, and Jesus has shown me, who is there with His father. Like God, Christ, and Holy Spirit, these are known to me, through life, from Father, who tells me come to me through My Son. Who is God, who calls me His Son, for I am His child.
And mind part of that sentence to yourself I just typed, "...for I am His child."
I am. I am His. Child.
I am learning as much here now in my fifties as I did as a boy. I am. Existence. Before, now, and after.
I am, part of God, from His son, who was a child, still is a child, still will be Jesus. Always known to God, as His son. Who claims me as His son. For I know Jesus.
It is through Him, I come to know the Father, as Jesus said, "
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. John 14:6
Equated and taken apart, to define and/or label some;
I am the way [Taoism, the way of things],
the truth [
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
John 8:31-33 (in Context) John 8 (Whole Chapter)
John 14:17
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 14:16-18 (in Context) John 14 (Whole Chapter)
2 Peter 1:12[ Prophecy of Scripture ] So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.
John 16:13
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he willspeak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
John 16:12-14 (in Context) John 16 (Whole Chapter)
Psalm 51:6 (New International Version)
6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts [a] ;
you teach [b] me wisdom in the inmost place.]
the life,
before, during, and after, experience, being God, knowing Him, through His son, Jesus, I am.
We can speculate to know Jesus taught more to others than we know, I can speculate this. I will never equate the Bible to Tao Te Ching. What I do though is say Jesus is known. Throughout the land. And in form from God. Either written word, or physical being that existed in due times.
KK, I hope I wrote a message here for you. That defined what I meant about rpm's of life. I did more than just that. I went on writing from spirit here that I can see. And made a connection to something, not known too much.
So it is with this I send this message now. I have written all that I could for now. Maybe this helps and you can use this to go more with the direction you will flow in life. I trust Jesus will guide you from the Father as much as I have opened up with knowledge to you of things that I know from experience.
You take care and be blessed with Holy Spirit.
As Janis Joplin said once in a concert ending, this is all I've got.
Peace and blessings,
Jeff
[bible quotes from BibleGateway.com]
(I post this to an awareness known to me, from unknown)
