The achievment of a higher understanding...

Recently...I was smoking some marijuana with my bud Bryan.

Usually we go out to my car and smoke a blunt and talk about everything.

I don't think theres much we havn't discussed...you name it

anyways...

we were sitting outside on a sunny warm day...a perfect day

and we were discussing how people tend not to notice huge, miraculous, mind-blowing things such as the sun or the moon...I mean people just look in the sky and see this object and then forget about it...

But when you stop to think....That sun is however many times bigger than this earth...and that circle up there is an actual moon...a planet...

it just givea d ifferent perspective...

we both reached a level of enlightenment....we both knew that we knew nothing about anything and we accepted the fact that theres just too much to nature, and too much to science to actually assume that we know whats going on in te world, or rather in the universe!

What we felt was not a thought, it could not be learned nor taught...it was a higher understanding, and it could not be wrong, because it wasnt a matter of true and false....it was a realization that we shared...and I believe it was an understanding to connect us both to the superconscious....

We realized that nothing really matters in the world and ...us humans are so far out of reality that its just depressing...

has anyone else had this understanding?

And don't forget about the stars....

I heard a stat on the radio today. At the speed of light, a star can travel around the earth over 7 times in a second and yet it would take a star about 4.5 years to reach earth traveling at the same speed.
It's hard to understand exactly how far the stars are from us.


"Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light."

relativity

totally.
And then its like, what if this entire universe, is just a coin in the pocket of some fatcat god, who's planning on spending us to buy a divine diet coke? And what if his entire universe is just a oddly shaped rock in some even bigger god's world.
It's so like, whoa, man.

Yeah, it's amazing the higher understandings we get through the sacred herb, you know?

Yeah man. I think about that shit all the time. Makes me realize how beautiful everything is.

In my day to day life it constantly crosses my mind. Give me a fat bowl and I start babbling about how there is beauty in an ant crawling just because of the miracle that so many things have come together so that it can, etc.

I'm starting to think that we need to stop celebrating "higher" understandings, and just appreciate understandings. Every so often I, like a lot of our members, come to a new understanding. Not an enlightened one, not one with some great or ultimate answer, just some more perspective and information. However you see your understanding Acouwaila, I'm glad you found it :) . Keep searching and don't forget to take a breather, otherwise you can cloud your own perceptions obessing over one train of thought (as I myself learned).

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Originally Posted by mrdevious

I'm starting to think that we need to stop celebrating "higher" understandings, and just appreciate understandings. Every so often I, like a lot of our members, come to a new understanding. Not an enlightened one, not one with some great or ultimate answer, just some more perspective and information. However you see your understanding Acouwaila, I'm glad you found it :) . Keep searching and don't forget to take a breather, otherwise you can cloud your own perceptions obessing over one train of thought (as I myself learned).

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Exactly. I come to new understandings almost daily sometimes. None of them that great, but atleast I feel like I am learning something important.

yep yep let those active chemicals expand your brainy little mind :rastasmoke:

yeah.......... the wisest man is he who acknowledges that he doesnt know anything

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We realized that nothing really matters in the world

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That's all a matter of perspective. One could just as easily say that everything matters equally. That makes a lot more sense to me, because... well, if nothing mattered, why would any of it be here?

Yes, and how you relate to the sun and the moon. How the stars are so beautiful. I see that all the time in nature, such as, how long a tree has to grow in order to become so mighty and tall. It's like a content of knowing you acknoledge something.

I find it amazing how through deep thought, the human mind can percieve its surroundings and what it cannot fathom in such richness however small it's view may be. I wonder how the ape, our predecessor percieves the universe.