jespah lara - ultimate

The readings on ultimate reality made me ponder the question of whether or not ultimate reality is the central theme to all religions. Obviously, it is for many religions (Hinduism and Buddhism come to mind). These readings also made me ponder the question as to what ulimate reality is. Coincidentally my friends and I were talking about this a few months ago and I remember our conversation fairly well. I remembering reaching the conclusion that ultimate reality is the totality of all happenings, all expressions, all thoughts and actions, all material and non-material things that have existed or taken place in all of space, the whole universe, throughout the history of all time, past, present and future bound up into one unintelligible, ineffable "thing" that defines the conditions for all of existence. Of course, this "definition" is hugely, vastly inadequate as I have doubtless left so much unaccounted for. Nonetheless, this "definition" of ultimate reality brings into my mind the idea of the big bang. The point of origin for everything, the source of all creation is somewhat what I am eluding to when I attempt to define ultimate reality. Let us assume that the big bang theory is true. Then, it holds that at one time in the past everything and nothing were held together in an unimaginable point and that point contained anything and everything possible or impossible ever (I am trying to be as inclusive as I can). The world, the universe as we know it is that same point spread out across a vast amount of space and time. Ultimate reality, as I see it, is all of that combined, put together, and that is something that cannot be contained within a human mind.