Guest guest Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 St Paul, visiting the Athenians, found a dedication stone with this inscription: To the unknown god In the Third Millennium we must finally recognize this god, whom all other gods obscure. I: Being There is but one divinity: the living Cosmos. All is full of all All is immanence, all is incandescence. This Being has no name, It has no source, nor aim. Other than its own continuance, its own delight, what cause, what purpose, could be needed? Who moved the cosmos? It was its own prime mover as a dancer breaks into motion out of pure exuberance. Aeons are its playground. Ceaseless in change, it rests in endless peace. Who organized the cosmos? Its own self. Spontaneously, fireflies synchronize the radiance of their desire. Don't look for a soul in the cosmos. inside a roaring flame you will find neither a warm heart nor a vengeful one. Conceive no god in the image of man. Instead conceive humanity in the mould of the cosmos. See in your self no self, but only existence, transience, incandescence. You need no imagination to envisage divinity only sensation. You need no prophet to point to the invisible. You need no faith to believe the unbelievable, only science and sense. Don't close your eyes to see God: open them. Don't look in a book to find God: look around you. Don't wait for death to find justice: seek justice now. Hold fast to the mountain face of What Is. Depart from the given, and you depart from the divine. Faith in phantasms is idolatry. There is no heaven in the beyond: heaven is here and now. There is no hell beneath. Hell is separation from here and now. This present world is not an exile: it is the homeland. It is not a pathway: it is the destination. It is not a question: it is the answer. II: Linking You have always been, are now, and ever will be one with all that is. The significance of our existence is for the cosmos to contemplate itself. We are separated only until we realize that we are not separated. Realize this, and death holds no more fear. Rollers lapse into the sea, and smoke is carried on the wind toward the white clouds. In time's field seeds shoot and bloom; fade and die reseed. Seeds, not selves, survive. Seek immortality not through dreams. but through deeds and remembrance, merit and descendance. All that exists is matter and fire. Life and soul are sparked by the cosmic pyre. So charcoal black glows red, flames gold, and is still charcoal. Mind is not dream, not tranquil island, nor blossom drifting. It is the fluid surface of the stream, the shifting plane where water, shaped by wind, reflects the sky. All is full of all. No individuality exists apart from community. Ripples on one pool, each entity enfolds reflections of one sun. Each being is simultaneous flame and crystal, fire and mirror. Each diamond facet reflects the necklace of infinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 is it all on the stone ? and who is St-Paul here and now ? or is it two parts of One Is You ? .. - <avatar_peace <Nisargadatta > Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:46 PM You have always been, St Paul, visiting the Athenians, found a dedication stone with this inscription: To the unknown god In the Third Millennium we must finally recognize this god, whom all other gods obscure. I: Being There is but one divinity: the living Cosmos. All is full of all All is immanence, all is incandescence. This Being has no name, It has no source, nor aim. Other than its own continuance, its own delight, what cause, what purpose, could be needed? Who moved the cosmos? It was its own prime mover as a dancer breaks into motion out of pure exuberance. Aeons are its playground. Ceaseless in change, it rests in endless peace. Who organized the cosmos? Its own self. Spontaneously, fireflies synchronize the radiance of their desire. Don't look for a soul in the cosmos. inside a roaring flame you will find neither a warm heart nor a vengeful one. Conceive no god in the image of man. Instead conceive humanity in the mould of the cosmos. See in your self no self, but only existence, transience, incandescence. You need no imagination to envisage divinity only sensation. You need no prophet to point to the invisible. You need no faith to believe the unbelievable, only science and sense. Don't close your eyes to see God: open them. Don't look in a book to find God: look around you. Don't wait for death to find justice: seek justice now. Hold fast to the mountain face of What Is. Depart from the given, and you depart from the divine. Faith in phantasms is idolatry. There is no heaven in the beyond: heaven is here and now. There is no hell beneath. Hell is separation from here and now. This present world is not an exile: it is the homeland. It is not a pathway: it is the destination. It is not a question: it is the answer. II: Linking You have always been, are now, and ever will be one with all that is. The significance of our existence is for the cosmos to contemplate itself. We are separated only until we realize that we are not separated. Realize this, and death holds no more fear. Rollers lapse into the sea, and smoke is carried on the wind toward the white clouds. In time's field seeds shoot and bloom; fade and die reseed. Seeds, not selves, survive. Seek immortality not through dreams. but through deeds and remembrance, merit and descendance. All that exists is matter and fire. Life and soul are sparked by the cosmic pyre. So charcoal black glows red, flames gold, and is still charcoal. Mind is not dream, not tranquil island, nor blossom drifting. It is the fluid surface of the stream, the shifting plane where water, shaped by wind, reflects the sky. All is full of all. No individuality exists apart from community. Ripples on one pool, each entity enfolds reflections of one sun. Each being is simultaneous flame and crystal, fire and mirror. Each diamond facet reflects the necklace of infinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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