John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readOct 30, 2022

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What if the premise of a singular entity, existence, god, overlooks and ignores the fundamental duality?

When we seek out that one answer, we always seem to find ourselves running in circles.

As these tree dwelling quadrupeds, we have binary, focal vision to judge distance and are extremely tactile, so we tend to be linear and object oriented, in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality.

If/when Big Bang theory eventually fails, then that black body background radiation would be the light of ever further, infinite sources, with the faint structure being the light of those sources just over the edge of the visible spectrum.

As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and world functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. The reality is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because past is consumed by present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

As consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure rise and fall, future to past.

So while entropy for energy is to radiate out, toward infinity, the path of least resistance for the patterns generated is to coalesce inward, as waves synchronize, because one big wave is more efficient than many small ones.

So we have galaxies, with the energy radiating out, toward infinity, as the structure coalesces in, toward equilibrium, thus releasing the energy to radiate back out.

Energy lost is thus replaced by energy radiating back in, from across infinity. Nodes and networks. Yin and yang.

If you want to truly be the Buddha, just be a plant and sit still, letting your branches and roots stitch together earth and sky, tying you into all. Be the tree, not just one climbing around in it.

Life is a dance, not a race.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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