Got a Light?

[Guest guest]

Suppose, just suppose, that we were to allow ourselves

a subtle shift in perception and,

instead of believing ourselves to be

humans having "spiritual" experiences,

we remembered that we are actually Spirit

having the inexplicable experience of being human?

 

And suppose, in the vastness of the eternal mystery flow,

we came to realize that experience itself is endless,

and essentially devoid of any meaning,

except what we might arbitrarily grant it in our

transitory and totally random, unfounded knowing?

 

And suppose that we saw, really Saw,

that any clinging, even the most minute attachment,

to any experience splits "heaven and earth" asunder,

and this meaning-making of any experience

sustains our apparent suffering by futilely seeking to

conform Great Being to the comfortable pre-fab

compartments of our presumed separate identities?

 

And finally, just suppose that God Itself

turns out to be nothing we can ever know,

even as we distract ourselves with the mind's fear that

this might just actually be so:

 

that this Vast Emptiness indeed

contains nothing sacred, unless one considers

imaginative stories about some fictional

first person, singular

sacred.

 

We experience this fear

to the exact degree that we

resist this fear.

 

So – wonder if we were to suddenly wake up

from the habitual sleep-walk and

take a really good first look at these

fingers sprouting from our hands,

those little individualized bits of mystery we

so casually call "fingers", but in fact have

not the slightest clue as to

what ... they ... ARE?

 

Just for a goof, hmmm?

 

What if we proceeded with this inquiry

until it extended all the way

through that fond collection

now ensconced within the neural net,

those jelly belly electrons

zipping haplessly hither & thither,

randomly colliding with each other

to create some semblance of

the peculiar order we assume is

"the way things are"?

 

What then if that fellow, that

skin & bones shirtless Shiner

on the corner of Main & Alhambra

were to ask, in a voice that seemed

impossible and yet familiar:

 

"Hey man --

got a light?"

[Guest guest]

Very nice post, bob > Suppose, just suppose, that we were to allow

ourselves > a subtle shift in perception and, > instead of believing

ourselves to be > humans having "spiritual" experiences, > we

remembered that we are actually Spirit > having the inexplicable

experience of being human? And what about that simultaneously? Or

thus? the human divine

=============the divine human It does not really matter what the terms

are on both sides of the = sign Those terms can be anything depending

on whatever one distinguishes It is all in that = sign There is a bit

of a problem with English though, it is pronounced as "equals" or

"makes", but it is actually more like: = is is is = is is is =

Wim

 

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[Guest guest]

, Wim Borsboom <wim@a...> wrote:

> Suppose, just suppose, that we were to allow ourselves

a subtle shift in perception and,

instead of believing ourselves to be

humans having "spiritual" experiences,

we remembered that we are actually Spirit

having the inexplicable experience of being human?

 

 

And what about that simultaneously?

 

 

.....Sounds good to me!

(i also like the lightbulb, however!)

 

 

Or thus?

 

the human divine

=============

the divine human

 

It does not really matter what the terms are on both sides of the =

sign

Those terms can be anything depending on whatever one distinguishes

 

It is all in that = sign

 

 

......it must be very small then, wouldn't you agree?

 

 

 

 

There is a bit of a problem with English though,

it is pronounced as "equals" or "makes",

but it is actually more like:

 

= is is

is = is

is is =

 

 

......try telling that to my ex-wife!

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

b

[Guest guest]

Suppose, just suppose, that we were to allow ourselves a subtle shift

in perception and, instead of believing ourselves to be

humans having "spiritual" experiences, we remembered that we are

actually Spirit having the inexplicable experience of being human?

Yaz...dats that ol' black magic...

We look like no poor nickel Kinescope Show

We aint the film, we aint the lens, no sirree

We is the show...

And dat's da magic!

--Zenbobo

(please excuse the awful accent, but the spirit of Al Jolson just wandered thru my office)