[This is part of The System]

The Wisdom Meme

For many years now we’ve dreamed of a meme so wonderful that it would enlighten us all as individuals and help us all share meaning with one another. Then we could find the way forward as individuals and as groups. And everything would go better.

This wisdom meme would be like a koan, but instead of being difficult to riddle out, it would be irresistible: once one heard it, one couldn’t help but be awakened to and live more and more in sync with the Love that chooses everyone always no matter what.

We try again for a pretty-good wisdom meme:

When we get angry with another person, the first crime is against ourselves.
Our anger turns us away from the Truth that we are all essentially the same and are all in this together, bound in and through an infinite spiritual Love that chooses us all.
We rob ourselves of the Joy at Life that is our true home.
Instead of resting on and growing in Love, we cut our minds and hearts on shards of pointless cruelty.
If we do not catch our error here, but instead indulge it and nourish the anger, our crime turns outward and harms others, as well as further damaging us.

When I lie or cheat or steal, or when I hurt or in any way harm another or our shared dreaming-space; the first attack is against my relationship to my own inner Light. Only when I succeed at harming my connection to Kind Joy can the knife move outward into another’s gut.

This is what we do whenever we find ourselves impatient with ourselves or anyone else:
Feel them, us, and everything dissolve into infinite strands of feeling/thought/body.
And feel the infinite strands run together and dissolve into one another and beyond each other — into everything/nothing.
Let Pure Love (spiritual love: beyond feelings and ideas) giggle over and guide us all together to what is best for everyone.

We relax our shoulders, open up, turn inside out, stand up straight within ourselves.
We remember that we’re all in this together, bound in and through the Love that is All — remember that we sense that more fundamentally than we sense any doubts or explanations of or paeans to It.

Too long?

How about:

We open up, turn ourselves inside out, push out from within, and let Love in.
We rest on the Love beyond all our conceptions — beyond being and non-being, beyond self and no-self.
We rest on Pure Love and let our feeling/thinking/acting flow along with It, with the Love that creates, sustains, shines through, and ultimately is everything/nothing — this impermanent, interdependent tumbling-along where we live and learn for a time outside of timespace.

Too long?

How about:

We know that we’re all in this together, bound in and through the Love that brings (most fundamentally: keeps) us all safely home — we know this more fundamentally (emotionally, logically, and experientially) than we know our doubts about or explanations of this sense of things.

[This insight is emotionally, logically, and experientially prior to all our other thoughts and feelings because our feeling/thinking/acting only makes sense to us to the degree that we understand that and in what sense it is True to say, “Love alone is Real, and grounded in Love we Know are all in this together forever.”]

Still too long?

I don’t think we’ll ever outdo Sinead O’Connor’s wisdom meme:

U stand tall
And u be strong
U have ruthless compassion
For yourself, and everyone
Yeah, it’s hard, but it can be done

[‘Til I Whisper You Something
From Faith and Courage
Sinead O’Connor]

[Note that Sinead’s wisdom meme contains within it:
Standing up within yourself;
Placing your strength into your compassion;
the dual motion inward and outward (Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind [Godlight shines within your every conscious moment], and your neighbor as yourself [God also shines through everyone else]);
and the understanding that this is a difficult, ongoing journey, but one that is worthwhile and possible (the Peace that Passes Understanding can and will relate meaningfully to our understanding to the degree we open up to the Love prior to our ideas and feelings).]

Oh, what about a shared wisdom meme?

Here:

None of our worldviews make sense to any of us except to the degree they help us live the universal values (aware, clear, honest, accurate, competent, loving-king, and joyfully-together).

So we should together prioritize those values, and the Pure Love (infinite, eternal, and beyond all conceptions) required to meaningfully animate, motivate, and explicate them.

A final thought:

Riddle me this:
Why do we love everyone always, no matter what?
And why do they love us the same way?
What within us loves like that?
And how do we know that that part is what is most Real?
Riddle me that!

Author: BW/AW
Editor: AW/BW
Copyright: AMW