What an Amazing Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=08LBltePDZw
This video of thousands of galaxies in 3D is absolutely amazing, and is like watching a movie in a 3D studio. It just goes to show how small our world is in terms of the size of the vast cosmos, for this is only a small section we are viewing. Everyone of these galaxies has millions of stars and countless planets, and it would be silly, after watching this video, to think we are the only life in the universe. Watch it and then try to convince yourself there is no life anywhere else ... I don't think you can do it.
Shakyamuni Buddha seems to be the only founder of a religion to have told us that there is life everywhere in the cosmos on the material plane (though many others have talked about heavenly planes). Nonetheless, the denizens of those worlds won't know anything about Shakyamuni Buddha ... or Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Moses, Guru Nanak, Confucius, Socrates, Lao Tzu or countless other founders of religion. They won't know anything about these religious paths and their ceremonies, disciplinary rules or beliefs either, even though we often make them the pivot of our lives, so we certainly cannot say that any religion here on earth is universal. Nor should we then take any religion as the center of the world and then thumb our noses at the rest. It should give you pause to wonder about the karma that had you land in your own religion for this life.
Even so, Buddha said that the rules of the mind are the same across the cosmos. Physicists ponder whether the laws of physics might change in a different part of the universe, but the laws of consciousness will remain the same. So while denizens of other worlds will not know of our religions, everyone "over there" will have to trace consciousness back to its ultimate source to find enlightenment and experience the root source of life where all matter and mind are one. To find this all pervasive source that is often called pristine fundamental awareness, true Self, or original fundamental nature, I've been putting together a new book entitled WHAT IS SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.
In this new book, to be released in a few weeks, I have collected dozens of cases of individuals from all sorts of religions who attained enlightenment, and put their various descriptions together in one single place so you can compare. I've also collected the descriptions from the great religions of their (supposed) highest spiritual attainments, whereby it becomes perfectly clear that the saints of all the genuine religions are talking about the exact same final spiritual target. Not the guys in charge of the religious hierarchies as power structure or organizations of social control, but the realized saints and sages. Christian saints, Jewish sages, Muslim saints, Buddhist saints, Hindu rishis, Confucian sages, Taoist immortals, yogic seers, etc. ... they're all included in this blockbuster.
I've finally also collected countless Zen stories of enlightenment, so it's the first time I'm really writing on that topic showing what those Zen stories actually meant (I had to retranslate quite a few), and just for you (so the info isn't lost) I dug up countless time tables for achieving various stages of the spiritual path to enlightenment from multiple traditions, and am completing another translation of the delusive states people often go through on the way to enlightenment so people of any religion can use this to guide themselves away from delusions.
Regardless as to the type of sentient life on other planets, as my teacher often said, all sentient beings are subject to the same laws of mind and will be seeking enlightenment in their own religions and spiritual paths. They will be shaped about his one great quest, as they are here, although the public doesn't know it (unless they read this book). Hence, this book was written to show you this universal path and prove that on this small world, everyone is traveling that same spiritual path, going through the same spiritual stages, using the same practice methods and describing the same final attainment. One of my editors said he can finally take a book -- this one -- to their overly religious friends and show them that their worldview is just too small because all the comparison stories and word for word quotes from their own saints show that all the religions are really about the same goal of enlightenment, and samadhi attainments achieved through spiritual practice (s
uch as meditation) are the preparation. It's impossible to deny this any longer when you finally get this material.
So look for this new book, to be out in a few weeks (it's large with all these quotes -- my editor said it's invaluable for those alone) -- and I'll keep you updated as it progresses.
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Bill
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