64. Life is not a Monastery

Enlightenment with Rishi Atma Bodha

The most perfect philosophy allows you to see through the eyes of everyone and yet still retain your individuality undisturbed. It is big enough for everyone to be the best of who they are. It advocates for a Supreme experience because it wants nothing less for everyone.

Just as nature is not one color but many beautiful colors in near infinite shades and combinations, so also does it intend to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual and its many nuances of expression. This is true diversity, not a conformity to androgynousness or groupthink. Instead of dividing by sex or race or sexual orientation, both femininity and masculinity are celebrated in their extremes, recognizing that without them, diversity is impossible and anything less than this is to perpetuate a limited non-diverse perspective.

Some would argue that there is no such thing as Best, but without the Best, the full flavor of the Universe cannot be experienced. Without the Best, your life becomes a delusion of meaninglessness. Thus devoid of purpose, you drift aimlessly and powerlessly, unaware of your own significance.

You are special. You are significant. It is for these reasons that you can experience the Best and thereby your life becomes better than you imagined. To be limitless is to have no limits placed upon your potential, and your potential itself is also limitless. Since the goalpost continually gets extended and expanded, you never reach the fullness of who You are, and that is a good thing. There is no limit to who you are and what you can be, and this is a reason for everyone to celebrate each moment.

From a subjective perspective, God is Great. God's perspective doesn't disagree. Where people get confused is thinking that greatness is a limitation, when it is not.

I think maybe some people want God to be ordinary, so that way they can feel better about themselves also being ordinary. The Truth is that God of course is in everything, the good and the bad. Describing it is about adding, not subtracting.

Isn't it great to be in the good and the bad, the best and the worst? To be the Best means nothing is outside of you, and yet you are still Great. That's because the Whole is more than the sum of Its parts.