Conquering The Universe

Conquer self. Stop panicking.

It’s one infinite universe. People may say there are other universes, but they’re all experienced in the infinite space of no circumference.

The problem for most people is that they think if there is a creation, there has to be a creator. If there was a beginning … a beginning in what? Things don’t just happen out of nothing.

The universe has to be infinite, so there is no beginning, and no creator – and therefore no argument. There’s just space and matter teeming with consciousnesses = life.

Matter rearranges forever, bumping into itself until gradually, when clusters are big enough, they collide – bang! Life and its complexity requires a temperature change (a flow from hot to cold). Without those collisions, everything would be a stagnate disorder, but it isn’t – the universe is full of cosmic soup, the building blocks of life.

Heating and cooling results in conditions for growth: spores, bacteria and fungi can survive in space, creating the right conditions for the right consciousnesses. Consciousnesses do not have beginning; they are not things.

If the universe was finite, we have the headache of arguing what came before the beginning. We cannot get our ordinary minds to comprehend infinity so we have to make up an imaginary beginning – or rather, one’s made up for us. Only in silent awareness can infinity be comprehended; then, coming to no other conclusion, we can only address the moment in front of us. What was, is now.

When we conquer the mind, we conquer the eternal universe. All sentient beings obey the same laws: creatures somewhere in the Milky Way may have one eye, four arms and a green tinge, but they’ll all have desire, repulsion and indifference which compels them, just like us.

The transition from chemistry (rocks and heat) to biology (spores and bacteria) is not a mystery. If there is enough matter bumping around for an infinite amount of time, life isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable.

While science can measure the container – the body and brain – it cannot observe the essence of consciousness from outside. Pointing to pure consciousness as the only tool of observation suggests that life is a first-person experience, as something that must be felt rather than calculated.

In this view, meditation isn’t just relaxation; it’s an investigative tool. If consciousness is a fundamental quality of observation, then by turning our attention inward, we are essentially looking directly at the source code of the universe.

The knowing vs the known: science studies the known (matter, bangs, bacteria), but meditation is the clarity of knowing. The realisation that the infinite universe out there and the consciousness within are, in essence, the same. Emptiness. The implies that the bangs and collisions are the external physical dance, while consciousness is the constant observation.

That is the ultimate destination of non-duality. When we strip away the labels of ‘me’ and ‘the world’, the distinction between the observer and the observed collapses.

The infinite universe and the individual both turn out to be concepts created by the mind. What remains is just a single, seamless reality that doesn’t need a name.

In that state, the collisions, the bacteria, and the bangs aren’t things happening to us or around us; they are just the ripples on an ocean that has no shore.

Don’t panic. 🙂
Just experience now – which cannot be found!