Ecology 101 Part ?

Challenge: Find the ecology in this.

“What gives light must endure burning”. – Viktor Frankl

That’s the thing with life, it’s just so light. So just only briefly barely not even there that we want to appreciate it by holding onto it and freezing it in place, in places, and make fantasy of it. We mistake the shapelessness that it really is for the mirages, the infinitely and deceptively ephemeral shapes it makes of us. That it makes us make.

Complexity merging simultaneously into vaporous simplicity. We iteratively, repeatedly, attempt to appreciate it for what it isn’t and what it cannot be, yet we try so hard to think it is. And the thing is, it’s nothing, like literally almost nothing. You can’t feel it or do anything with it but feel into the almost nothing that it is. That is what is beautiful about it. As soon as you make it something, it vanishes, often without notice, and you’re left propping up something that suddenly never was. The value is the vanishing just as it vanishes. It is devalued in valuation and evaluation, yet that is all that is. When we try to make it into something, it fails, simply because it isn’t anything at all except what is, and even then only briefly barely that.

When we approximate a conscious synchronicity with this and accept it, when we understand that accepting what is is the only beautiful thing that is and the only thing there is to do, when we acknowledge the absurdity of it, the only natural emergence is understanding and compassion – that is the most approximal synchronicity, as determined by functional outcome. That is the only functional role with which we are left. Or so it would seem. Or so it would be considering it is nothing.

All forms of otherism – predilection, hate, disappointment, fear, ignorance, expectation – it all is vanquished, because they only emerge into our perception of existence when we are focused on what isn’t real, what isn’t real anymore, and are willing to or prefer to ignore what reality really is, and when we refuse to understand that suffering is the clue, the hint, the cue, the call for help from the living universe, not based on some supernatural force, but from the constraints of all living existence in an ever-moving, ever-altering universe.

Otherism, high preference, and the subsequent suffering are merely misprojections radiating from our misinterpretations. In essence, only understanding and compassion are real and perpetual. Only they make more of what we mean to value by letting the actual values, which we actually have no control over, the ultimate value of acceptance, unfold as they will (oh how we try and what love we wield in trying to learn to love that but not love what is behind the trying). They are the only unadulterated expressions at the heart of functional unfolding because they are accepting of the unfolding rather than attempting to bend the unfolding against its natural will (which only induces scaled chaos, never more order – but may also be functionally necessary – Wheeler’s Participatory Anthropic Principle). It is to say to the universe “I acknowledge what is and I am moving forward positively, rather than struggling in vain against it and becoming embittered by the abject failure within my preference.” We simply set our selves up for it. Poor Sisyphus needs our love.

Only this, consciousness imbued with acceptance, understanding, and compassion, are actual life and reality, in that they are the only realness, but there is no power, no manipulation for gain in this. Being otherwise only creates what is ultimately misery. Anything that is not so light and meaningless as this is merely tragic irony. It is from this understanding, from this being, that we must operate. From this proper being, proper unfolding within interpretive self, can proper action come into our lives. First proper being, then proper doing.