Being alive
What if being alive isn't all it's cracked up to be?
I picture all the things we so easily classify and most often look down upon as "nonliving". Next i wonder if being alive is really a higher form of existence than that of, say, a sedentary rock.
The rock is what it is. Wether it knows that it is or even just what it is unfathomable to us. It does not need any external or internal stimuli, reaction or anything whatsoever to be a rock. It just is. It has no needs, and does not destroy anything. It follows but its own consistent path, and it's "reaction" to anything applied to it will be nothing but a rock's reaction. In short, it is perfectly a rock.
We always say nobody is perfect. No human is. The rock is perfectly a rock. The sand is perfectly sand. The water is perfectly water. That is until man's tainted hands get a hold of them and disturb their perfection. How can it be perfect if it can be disturbed, you say? Because MAN is ANTI-PERFECT. any "living" being is anti perfect.
Any action by a "live" being (who else can do actions anyway?) disrupts everything around it. If some divine being created the universe as a perfect manifestation, then the creation of life is the start of the slow inevitable decay of perfection.
Maybe buddha really became a statue when he reached that utmost peak of existence. perfection. as gold(initially in a fat guy statue form, maybe). that someone probably melted and turned into something else. but still. gold, and forever will be gold. until some live thing discovers a way to ungold it.
do we attain perfection when we die? i'd like to believe so. that perfect peace. although how can an anti-perfect become perfect? maybe we don't maybe we just really disappear.
that sucks.
I picture all the things we so easily classify and most often look down upon as "nonliving". Next i wonder if being alive is really a higher form of existence than that of, say, a sedentary rock.
The rock is what it is. Wether it knows that it is or even just what it is unfathomable to us. It does not need any external or internal stimuli, reaction or anything whatsoever to be a rock. It just is. It has no needs, and does not destroy anything. It follows but its own consistent path, and it's "reaction" to anything applied to it will be nothing but a rock's reaction. In short, it is perfectly a rock.
We always say nobody is perfect. No human is. The rock is perfectly a rock. The sand is perfectly sand. The water is perfectly water. That is until man's tainted hands get a hold of them and disturb their perfection. How can it be perfect if it can be disturbed, you say? Because MAN is ANTI-PERFECT. any "living" being is anti perfect.
Any action by a "live" being (who else can do actions anyway?) disrupts everything around it. If some divine being created the universe as a perfect manifestation, then the creation of life is the start of the slow inevitable decay of perfection.
Maybe buddha really became a statue when he reached that utmost peak of existence. perfection. as gold(initially in a fat guy statue form, maybe). that someone probably melted and turned into something else. but still. gold, and forever will be gold. until some live thing discovers a way to ungold it.
do we attain perfection when we die? i'd like to believe so. that perfect peace. although how can an anti-perfect become perfect? maybe we don't maybe we just really disappear.
that sucks.
stain brew and whatnot
