POTENTIAL: THE JOY OF GAINING KNOWLEDGE

 YOU ARE POTENTIAL
OMNI (all) POTENTIAL (powerful - possible) practical pragmatic

Living in a cave meditating is impractical since it requires someone who is not living in a cave meditating to be practical.  Your impractical life style is made possible by someone’s practical lifestyle.

You cannot stay alive doing nothing. Your doing nothing must be supported by someone doing something.

Life is a game.  You play or are being played.  Knowing life is a game makes the game fun.  Not knowing life is a game, makes you a game piece.  A player pretend to be serious.  A game piece is serious.

You are playing chess.  If you win, you live.  If you lose you die.  If you care either way, you lose.

Life is a race.  You can win if you push and trip others.  The only way to win is not to play.

“In this race, the winner lives, all others will be killed.  Do to others whatever it takes to win.”
I raised my hand and asked, “What if we don’t play?”
He said, “You will all be killed right now.”
I said, “Cool.  That will avoid a lot of effort and trouble.”

What happens when you no longer need excitement to be happy?
Your wife will call you boring.”\

I asked, “What happens when you no longer need to go anywhere and do anything to be happy?”
He said, “People will say you’ve lost your mind.”
I said, “Obviously.”

How many village idiots does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Four hundred and one.  One to hold the light bulb, four hundred to turn the house.

From birth your mind is programmed for the game.  Once you realize that, and reprogram your mind to enjoy the game, people will think you’ve lost it.

When I was young, the kids wanted to play baseball and asked me to play.  I said, you go ahead, I’ll watch.  They went and played.  There was a lot of yelling and hollering and exciting energy.  The losers were mad they lost, and the winners taunted them, and then they played the game of “I’ll kick your ass.”  When it was all over they went for root beer floats, and said how much fun they had.”  It was very entertaining.  And that’s why life does life.

A body and mind does not know the difference between a physical experience and an imagined experience, which is why people enjoy books, puppet shows, plays, radio, movies, television, computer games, virtual reality games.  They enjoy the excitement, the energy they feel.  After experiencing that energy, they go back to their physical lives of, do this and do that, just to live another day.  If you still need something outside you to stimulate the energy within you, you’re yet a game player.  If you don’t need to stimulate that energy, and are at peace with just BEING, or NOT BEING, you’re no longer a game player, and are ready for a different game.

I tapped into all knowledge.  Suddenly I knew everything, all science, all the arts, every talent imaginable, all reasons for things.  I also experienced there was more potential, even more knowledge, sciences, arts and talents yet to be discovered.  It was a brief experience.   Then I was back to being me, and realized that I, as me, as an individual piece of life, have been given the opportunity to travel the same path (so to speak) as the Intelligence that is life had to travel to get to where it is.  I get to enjoy the same potential.  Life itself (and you and I and all pieces of life) joy in gaining knowledge.  Some do it stressed, others not so much, all are moving along the path of potential.