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Posted June 10, 2011 by Charlie Van Dyke in Beyond Religion
DIMENSIONS OF LIFE
AN APPLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Experiencing Reality. It evades so many.
Difficult?
It can seem like trying to locate a needle within a monstrous complex network of hat pins, trying to find the Truth. In our culture, "Reality" has a different meaning almost every way you turn.
We watch reality TV, we use slang phrases ("That's UNreal, dude!"), we allocate truth to fields of science and math. Yet none of these academic spheres of interest and study ACTUALLY exist. Their realm is theory. They APPEAR to substantiate the contents of the mind, rather than what actually is.
The mind LOVES affirmation. And, who you are, is NOT your mind. The mind is a tool, not a being, and is designed to be used by you. Very few get this.
So - what is this mysterious thing we refer to as "Reality?"
Reality is not names and places, rankings or faces, but rather that which is pointed to with OUR conventional linguistic tools of speech. We may call it a "rock," or "tree," but that is only an agreed upon exchange of symbols, not the real thing. Talking and language used are linear. Reality is complete and all at once.
What we humorously say of time - that it is God's way of preventing everything from happening all at once, on top of each other - is only a joke. In fact it IS actually all happening in perfect synergistic unison, and cannot be any other way. Whole is whole and must remain complete even in motion.
We just don't see it that way.
We see in segments but think we see the entirety. We refer to our world as containing three dimensions, call it "3D." With three sides, our object, say, an apple, has shape, is more than a two dimensional, flat surface.
Sages throughout the ages, however, share with us the knowledge that we are all one, connected. This bypasses logic, (good!) and following this High Knowledge can lead us to the realization that we are dealing with more dimensions here than just three.
A fourth dimension allows the 3-D object to move. Without another dimension, the filled out figure would have to remain within the dimensions of its allotted space. To pick up an apple requires another dimension.
Of course, that's just one movement, one direction, over and over again. For variety of movement, we'll need another dimension. With that added dimension, we can move the apple anywhere.
But we can't eat it. To alter the apple, to change it's "fate" - eaten, uneaten, rotting, made into sauce, thrown at the TV set, given as a gift - requires another dimension to allow for necessary changes in fundamental quantities as time, duration or mass.
The actual apple design, from it's beginning to its end, brings in a sixth dimension. Now we have allowed for free will, the entirety of the apple (which includes the previous mother tree, seed, earth, rain, harvesters... well, everything) and it continues until our inventory list leaves nothing uncovered .
Everything? In the known universe? THAT seems impossibly difficult to keep track of. How in the world can we maintain an awareness of the entirety of Creation?
We don't have to. It happens automatically. Like a pizza delivery, it all comes to you, in the order you are best suited to handle it, when you don't try to force it. Would you make an effort to ensure each blade of grass, each droplet in the ocean? Don't have to. It happens by itself.
The trick is to remain open and allow reality to flow through you. There are other words and phrases, like "remaining open," that help tremendously, such as "surrendering to life," "resisting NOT," "acceptance." All very powerful processes, brimming with action, requiring only that you BE and watch, like a movie, or a dream.
And, when you allow it, this can be a much easier quest. Reality does not evade, it simply IS. To know it, keep it simple, and merely be with your awareness, BE your awareness. The formula, as old as age itself, is still in excellent working condition: "Be still...and Know...I am..." Stay alert right there.
To taste the Real, remain aware in the one, solid, never changing place of your ability to know, just prior to understanding, innocent open and free.
AN APPLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
Experiencing Reality. It evades so many.
Difficult?
It can seem like trying to locate a needle within a monstrous complex network of hat pins, trying to find the Truth. In our culture, "Reality" has a different meaning almost every way you turn.
We watch reality TV, we use slang phrases ("That's UNreal, dude!"), we allocate truth to fields of science and math. Yet none of these academic spheres of interest and study ACTUALLY exist. Their realm is theory. They APPEAR to substantiate the contents of the mind, rather than what actually is.
The mind LOVES affirmation. And, who you are, is NOT your mind. The mind is a tool, not a being, and is designed to be used by you. Very few get this.
So - what is this mysterious thing we refer to as "Reality?"
Reality is not names and places, rankings or faces, but rather that which is pointed to with OUR conventional linguistic tools of speech. We may call it a "rock," or "tree," but that is only an agreed upon exchange of symbols, not the real thing. Talking and language used are linear. Reality is complete and all at once.
What we humorously say of time - that it is God's way of preventing everything from happening all at once, on top of each other - is only a joke. In fact it IS actually all happening in perfect synergistic unison, and cannot be any other way. Whole is whole and must remain complete even in motion.
We just don't see it that way.
We see in segments but think we see the entirety. We refer to our world as containing three dimensions, call it "3D." With three sides, our object, say, an apple, has shape, is more than a two dimensional, flat surface.
Sages throughout the ages, however, share with us the knowledge that we are all one, connected. This bypasses logic, (good!) and following this High Knowledge can lead us to the realization that we are dealing with more dimensions here than just three.
A fourth dimension allows the 3-D object to move. Without another dimension, the filled out figure would have to remain within the dimensions of its allotted space. To pick up an apple requires another dimension.
Of course, that's just one movement, one direction, over and over again. For variety of movement, we'll need another dimension. With that added dimension, we can move the apple anywhere.
But we can't eat it. To alter the apple, to change it's "fate" - eaten, uneaten, rotting, made into sauce, thrown at the TV set, given as a gift - requires another dimension to allow for necessary changes in fundamental quantities as time, duration or mass.
The actual apple design, from it's beginning to its end, brings in a sixth dimension. Now we have allowed for free will, the entirety of the apple (which includes the previous mother tree, seed, earth, rain, harvesters... well, everything) and it continues until our inventory list leaves nothing uncovered .
Everything? In the known universe? THAT seems impossibly difficult to keep track of. How in the world can we maintain an awareness of the entirety of Creation?
We don't have to. It happens automatically. Like a pizza delivery, it all comes to you, in the order you are best suited to handle it, when you don't try to force it. Would you make an effort to ensure each blade of grass, each droplet in the ocean? Don't have to. It happens by itself.
The trick is to remain open and allow reality to flow through you. There are other words and phrases, like "remaining open," that help tremendously, such as "surrendering to life," "resisting NOT," "acceptance." All very powerful processes, brimming with action, requiring only that you BE and watch, like a movie, or a dream.
And, when you allow it, this can be a much easier quest. Reality does not evade, it simply IS. To know it, keep it simple, and merely be with your awareness, BE your awareness. The formula, as old as age itself, is still in excellent working condition: "Be still...and Know...I am..." Stay alert right there.
To taste the Real, remain aware in the one, solid, never changing place of your ability to know, just prior to understanding, innocent open and free.
Bobby Ocean wrote at August 28, 2011
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It's no good clinging to the Thought World.
From Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Zen Master, human rights activist, scholar, poet: "Birth and death are only ideas we have in our mind, and these ideas cannot be applied to reality. We are very sure when we point our hand up, it is above, and when we point in the opposite direction, it is below. Heaven is above and Hell is below. But the people who are sitting right now on the other side of the planet must disagree, because the idea of above and below does not apply to the cosmos, nor does the idea of birth and death."
This gets better all the time..
From Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Zen Master, human rights activist, scholar, poet: "Birth and death are only ideas we have in our mind, and these ideas cannot be applied to reality. We are very sure when we point our hand up, it is above, and when we point in the opposite direction, it is below. Heaven is above and Hell is below. But the people who are sitting right now on the other side of the planet must disagree, because the idea of above and below does not apply to the cosmos, nor does the idea of birth and death."
This gets better all the time..
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