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| The World as one's own body. | |
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| crow | May 12 2017, 10:50 AM Post #1 |
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Lao Tzu refers mysteriously to the master "seeing The World as his own body". And what could that mean? How can anyone see The World as his own body? It doesn't make sense. Of course it doesn't. It's not a sense-thing. Not a mind-thing. Not even a thing at all. My initial topple from the life I'd known, into the enormity of The Void, culminating in Enlightenment, was marked by the leaving of my corporeal body and merging into the mountain I had for so long contemplated. Quite suddenly, I found myself inside the mountain, part of the lattice of what the mountain was. Not simply inside it, or part of it, but the thing itself. I became the mountain. Next came the realization that the mountain was not some thing, perched upon the Earth, but was - not simply part of but - the Earth, itself. Things did not stop there, either. The Earth was the Solar System, the Solar System: the Galaxy, the Galaxy: The Cosmos, The Cosmos: God. In one swift motion, "I" became God. Knew it was. Was. God. The mind can not process this. It recoils, finds fault with, disagrees, rebels. This simply can not be! Which is why the mind can never bring one to Spiritual Enlightenment. One must leave mind behind. This is my secret: The Secret of Life. This is why birds land on me, mice trust me, life works for me, wife loves me. Yet it is no secret at all. It is always there, right in front of me, and you, all the time, a millimeter away. The smallest of perspective-shifts is all that separates anyone, any time, from arrival. The master sees The World as his own body. How could he harm it? How could he not care for it? How could he not be it? Do something for me: Start a practice of imagining, at first, that The World is your own body. As you get better at it, start to practice being The World. Start to not just be on it, but to be it. Be The World. When you can do this, you will have made a vast leap towards enlightenment. Do it for me. Then realize that it is not for me. It's not even for you. Do it For The Glory! When The World is one's body, one gains free access to all The World offers. This is the Eden-state. One bite of Eden's apple started up Adam's mind, and The World became separate from him. From then on, all he - and all his descendants, too - became parasites upon The World, preying upon it, toiling for their needs, ruining it - for themselves - in the process. Close the gap. Merge with it. Humble yourself before it and return once more, to it. The Prodigal Son. Edited by crow, May 12 2017, 11:13 AM.
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