Everything Smiling Back At You

Beginning life as we do, the world is just colors moving, tastings, soundings, touchings and smellings.  Every moment an experiencing, but an experiencing without words to describe it or even thoughts to think about it.  Hard to imagine?  Just about impossible I think!

Your brain developed over time.  Learning happened; undifferentiated experience shattered like glass into the distinct forms of things; your sense of self emerged as a new thing; and relationships between the thing that was yourself and the uncountable things that were not yourself, become complex and varied.

And over time, you may have noticed that all of the things, which were not yourself; the numberless forms of things, the shards of experience moving in and out of your awareness...everything seemed to be smiling back at you.

Dogs are creatures with four legs, two ears and eyes, a nose, paws, padded feet and tails.  Dogs are social animals and are often called "man's best friend."

 There are very many dogs in the world.  There are many kinds of dogs as well as many examples of dogs walking around.  There are friendly dogs, and mean dogs, cuddly dogs, dogs that drool, dogs with spots, black dogs, brown dogs, white dogs, dogs that do tricks, dogs that eat all the chocolate in your easter basket when you are 9 years old, hungry dogs, dogs that run fast, dogs that chase cars, guard dogs, junkyard dogs, seeing-eye dogs, toy dogs, blind dogs, dogs that are dying, mother dogs, father dogs, dogs with fewer than four legs and dogs that love to be scratched.

Although some people say that their dogs "think they are people," it seems more likely a case of dogs thinking people are dogs.

A Wondrous Contraption

The human brain is a wondrous contraption.  It sparkles with electro-chemical signals that flow along a million (or so), pathways.  Flexible and ever-changing; unpredictable, spectacularly varied. 

 People might say: “His/her brain is a diseased organ” or that “… his/her thoughts are impure.”   One might be said to have sinful or dark thoughts.  One may be accused of thinking evil thoughts.  There are depraved fancies and fantasies better left undescribed.  Yet, no matter how distasteful the expression of it may seem, how can we not admit to the amazing phenomena that consciousness is?

Where...Where...Where?

Where do I come from?  Who am I?  Where am I going?  These appear to be questions people use to distract themselves from living.