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Krishna Bhaavin's avatar

The Hell part is perhaps woven via karma. Karma itself is perhaps a game that the Heaven part chose because (in the words of Alan Watts) 'going far-out is fun'.

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Jordan Bates's avatar

Well said, Bhaavin, thanks for sharing. Yeah, one way I'd phrase it is that the entire Hell-Heaven of manifest Creation is generated by the unmanifested "Highest Heaven Which Has No Opposite"—Tao, Source, emptiness—out of a 'desire' to play, explore, view and experience itself from infinite angles.

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Krishna Bhaavin's avatar

Yes, and the same Highest Heaven, at some point wants us to wind up these games it weaved out and come back Home. When that happens, the desire for maximal enlightenment will BY ITSELF become the prime pre-occupation. Until then, the highest heaven perhaps wants JB to play JB (partly via JB's dysfunctional self-contraction/egoity and partly via JB's functional honouring of the human side). That would be my take.

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