The Jesus Blog

Chasing Zero - The Art of Choosing Zero: A Moment of AweSome very wise words from my friend, David Poleski. He is the original Zero, but more about that another time.Tipping my hat to you this morning. I wish we could have a conversation in person about all of this.

Zero, of course, occurs with the realization that the person we take ourselves to be is, in reality, a linguistic construct...an intellectual figment. Being ‘saved’ is to realize that there’s no one there to BE saved.Jesus of Nazareth put it thus: ‘...he whosoever loses HIS life (sees beyond the ego) finds life, and he whosoever finds life loses his own (realizes ‘Zero’).We’ve all Experienced this in one way or another…either in meditation or, more likely, when we are so engaged in doing something we love, that we lose all notions of self...time disappears and along with it, the ego.And when this happens, the great joy appears. This happens for two reasons…the first is, again, that our notion of self has disappeared (along with its myriad of problems). The other is that when we are doing something we love, we are doing what we are meant to be doing…what we were created for…what we were bio-chemically created to be doing.This is the same as doing God‘s will for, if God created us, ‘He’ created us with those very bio-chemical predispositions. When one encounters joy then, one can be sure that they are doing what they were created to be doing and, in addition, have become ‘Zero’ in the process.Notice, that when we are in joy, we are completely married to the present moment....time completely disappears. Again, Jesus of Nazareth put it thus: ‘....The way is wide that leads to destruction and many there are that go in thereat. The way is narrow that leads to righteousness, and a few there be that find it.'The ‘wide way’ he was talking about is the past and future (Where, when we are engaged in either of those we are in misery). The ‘narrow way’ is the present moment, and when we are in the present moment we are in peace and joy....and are at the place where the ego has disappeared and we have become Zero.Whoops…gotta fly. We really do need to talk about all of this in person...