by Xeperu

Created on: June 18, 2009   Last Updated: July 01, 2010

This question, based on my experience, is both a state of being and a place. We are standing in the Kingdom of Heaven right now here's how. When the universe was created it was created it the current location it is in now. Heaven is nowhere but now here. My soul has come to understand and experience this through deep meditation and through the practice of the noble eight fold path; the right beliefs, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, the right mindfulness, and the right meditational attainment. Here is how one can best describe my un-ending joy within my location of heaven. Hopefully you will find some joy too, because it's tough using just words in cyber-space.

Having come to know great love, un-ending peace, and pure satisfaction though the universal-SELF there comes an understanding of heaven's being and location. The Buddha said, " its the end of suffering." He used this negative context to entice the listener into the question what comes after that? Indeed it is so much more than the end of suffering, but the problem in attempting to explain "it" or "heaven" is the fact that words are such poor symbols of feelings and experiences. This is mostly due to the fact that words are open to misinterpretation.

The only way for me to explain my current experience now is to call it the Kingdom of Heaven. Witch is an interpretation described in the Bible. The largest problem with the Bible and many other spiritual books and/or teachings is that they are often interpreted by un- enlightened people.

Where else in the universe is there to go than inside the universe? Nowhere but now here. Science has even proven that the universe is not even solid even though the experience seems entirely real. Science cannot even location where consciousness is even located and have come to understand that it must be universal. The universal-SELF is the only solid location in the universe even though the entire thing is moving at a high rate of speed. Einstein even said that reality is nothing more than an illusion. A persistent one at that.

Where else is the universe observed other than the mind? Nowhere but now here. Now about heaven being a state of being is entirely correct because your being is the universal-SELF and it is entirely good. Lets flip that around and call it a place. Where would that place be other than inside the entire universe? It took the whole universe for consciousness to achieve human experience and if a person had eye balls that could experience the universe on the quantum level, one would see that nothing is separate from any thing.

To make a long experience short the matter of heaven becomes a state of being and it's place is held within the universe and the soul. It's just a matter of what a person chooses to observe and experience. The experience being that of suffering or pure JOY. Pure joy is my best description of the location experienced here, right at this very moment. And that goes to say for every other moment choosen to experience in the apparent future. which does not exist because the only time there is is right at this very moment. So the matter of suffering becomes a matter of the body that is experiencing the said Now. Heaven is both a state of being and a location which happens to be now here at this moment. We can be nothing more than entirely grateful for right now and all of it's potential joy. Thank You so much for reading of my experience.

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