While sitting under a bodhi tree in a state of contemplation, Buddha said the words, “The universe is perfect as is.” Centuries later, our collective will to reconfigure this earth with fragmented worldviews and divergent attitudes leaves some of us homeless, some of us depressed, and some of us slain. Is this a universe perfect as is?
We’re all, in our own little ways, trying to chip away at the mortal stone so we can craft it into a gem of indestructibility. We use aspirations and desires as tools. Do we unconsciously, subconsciously, and consciously seek perfection?
Whatever way you may answer these questions, the evolutionary mind isn’t really concerned with remodeling or reforming this world with any particular set goal. The evolutionary mind relentlessly goes forward while watching empires rise and fall, ice ages intensify then subside, and animals appear then vanish. To an evolutionary mind, life and death are just things to juggle in a cosmic play. Submerging ourselves in that analogy, we shouldn’t take either life or death too seriously.
Yet we live and die rather seriously. Sure, we smile when we find something pleasing, or we laugh when we find something amusing. But, as a species that harnesses the ability to organize an intense amount of information to produce a fully functional word processor, we must to large degree be a serious entity. Our quest here in mother earth’s womb must be an endeavor we take seriously and, obviously, one we try to do lovingly.
I have a theory that the universe is a fable fairly simplistic on the surface, but as we read between the lines, it is a complex narrative trying to prove something rather excruciatingly. In the tale, the universe talks about its ebbing and flowing, its waves and particles, and its chaotic and ordered structure merely to draw attention to its purpose---a purpose that involves the acceleration of its complexity, and quintessentially, the reconfiguring of its self-image. God, or whatever name you have for a vast and conscious organism, is accelerating, and through this acceleration, it is awakening.
For the disbelievers out there who claim an evolutionary mind is not accelerating, I draw your attention to the time it took bacteria to progress into simians, and the time it took Homo sapiens to create a microscope to see bacteria. Clearly, the advancement itself is a feat in evolution revolution, because although it took a taxing amount of years for the bacteria to take on the form of a bipedal ape, we were able to first microscopically peer into the structure of the bacteria, comparatively, without really breaking a sweat.
As we peer into the microscope to analyze the shape-shifting bacteria for biological breakthroughs, another staggering notion is set in place. We’re astronomically more complex than our bacterial predecessors. Which is pretty hard to disagree with given the fact that if we so chose, we as westerners could administer a biological agent to the dilapidated country of Africa to gravely wipe them off the face of the earth. Something bacteria itself cannot do, because well, it cannot consciously make choices.
Which brings me to a key point: if a universal mind ontologically and physically makes things more expansive and more complex, what kind of artistic vision does it have? Does it lean more towards an objective or subjective stance when it comes to its unfolding? Or is it more simply a vision of velocity and endurance? These are slightly rhetorical questions, but surely questions worth some inspection.
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