02/01/2022
PART ONE…
Ever stand in a pool, by yourself?
Bending your knees so your shoulders are below the waterline and up on your toes to feel the buoyancy of the water kinda holding you?
Literally just standing there, arms out, perfectly still and almost floating?
And then, after awhile, something interesting starts to happen…
When you move one of your arms, you touch cold water.
With no current for the water the body heat creates a pocket of warm water all around you.
Like the atmosphere around our planet floating through space; a child in the womb, balancing yourself in the buoyancy.
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We, the physical self and the ego it generates, are an emergent phenomenon of, really from, Consciousness.
And in many ways, capital “C” Consciousness has become the modern day replacement for what would otherwise be related to as “God” — to answer Nietzsche’s question … but I digress.
By connecting with the physical, with the body-mind, we sorta become the keyhole or the nexus point in an hour glass. ⏳
An individuated point and vast, yet defined, space on either side.
There is the vastness of the everyday life of everyone; eight billion stories being written at any given time, remnants of billions more and the hopes and dreams of what is to come.
Not to mention all the animals and rivers and mountains and all that…
And then, there is the vastness through the looking glass. A vastness that is only ever experienced personally and directly.
For ease and simplicity, let’s call it everything metaphysical.
And so, our sense of Higher Self, divinity, all things sacred is being experienced or perceived as being “over there” when looked at from the “here is” everyday existence.
In this way, meditation becomes a tool, resource, a vehicle of transit… and there’s nothing wrong with that.
To be clear, Meditation is and will do all that.
But what if we didn’t have to collapse down to this body-mind, via meditation so we could expand into limitlessness?
Some thoughts… I’d love to hear your take.
