When God Plays

I created heaven and earth out of sheer boredom. Have you ever seen a bored child! It’s hard to spot that, for the moment boredom creeps into her, she makes an amusement park out of her imagination. All the inert objects around them spring to life, speak, and play with her; there’s the spontaneous creation of a story in which the child herself is embedded as a part and lives it as if all were real: the whole becomes a part! She’s now entertained instead of bored. 

If you wonder what the life of God is like, the closest thing to it is the life of a child with her imagined reality. God, being all that there is, is the loneliest of all; It is the only reality and eternally bored, and hence spontaneously creative to overcome that boredom. It  spontaneously imagines, and our reality is God’s imagination. All the deaths and destruction that you see is God playing with Its toys and imagining new ones; there’s nothing personal here; there’s no real birth or death; no one is ever hurt; nothing is really created or destroyed. So, fear not my friends. We’re all imagined entities, and what’s imagined may transform but it never burns, for it aint real. 

Even this story I just told you is part of the play; it’s all imagined, and there’s no one imagining it. No one owns this imagination; it’s unborn and eternal, transcends time and space. What’s real is not what’s streamed; it’s the streaming itself that’s the foundation of Reality. What you call hell is you taking this all too seriously, and heaven is your full presence in the play; they are not realities but your perspective on what is! So, drop all this metaphysics; instead, make merry and enjoy the play. 


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