Animal Meditation

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Like an animal, a beast, a bird, a bug perched on a rock, just

seeing, hearing, sensing, just being there without a notion in the

brain, apperceiving what is, being the eye of God that's the animal

way, the natural way, the highest illumination.

 

Most people have this notion that the spiritual way is akin to

progress, an evolution into a superior being, or ubermensch. And that

this evolution, requires discipline, the acquisition of knowledge,

and the practice of virtue. In reality, what is required is pure

animal sensitivity, sensuality, (in the sense of a lack of

intellectual, spiritual, or moral connotation) a total immersion, an

indwelling of the body.

 

To explain reality, to understand it, to strive for a theory of

everything is a game that has no end, and leads nowhere.

Ontologically nothing can be said. What is, is. There is no method

to illumination, it is just being a lizard on a sunny rock lost in

contemplation.

 

Of course, there is no need to eradicate personality or intellect,

and it can't be done unless a lobotomy is performed. It suffices to

see through these tools, not to wear them welded to the forehead like

antlers getting entangled in the conceptual brush. To label, to

identify a self, no matter how nebulous or lofty, is to fall from

that blessed state of pure and simple animality.

 

Just braying a little,

Pete