Guest guest Posted May 4, 1999 Report Share Posted May 4, 1999 David Hodges wrote: > > [This is an excerpt from a letter I wrote a few days ago to a friend] > > When I get into the Witness (which is nearly all the time now, even > sometimes when I sleep) the view is expansive and vast, there is no > boundary between "me" and the world. But there is still a Witness, and what > the Witness witnesses is Self-being-the-world. Or I can turn it around and > then the Witness is Self witnessing me. But there is still that further > dualism. > But already light is appearing around the edges of this view, i.e., a > further Reality is beginning to bleed through to this one. Intimations of > the identity of Self and the Witness are coming on strong. Even though they > seem to regard eachother, in reality they ARE eachother. It seems that I > can understand it either way: the Witness projects everything onto the > screen of apparent otherness: the World, Self, and All. OR, Self has an > amusing way of observing itself by splitting off this Witness thing. > When the further Reality is most vividly in my meditations, it is a > vibrant, humming, energetic, blissful thing, kind of a rapid on-off pulse > that creates Everything and destroys Everything every instant. I might call > this thing God. Except of course it is not a Thing, there is nothing > including me that it is not. And I might call this God because for the > first time since my Christian faith collapsed like a popped balloon, I have > encountered something worthy of the name. And I know that this vision of > God also ultimately collapses and becomes just what is, a man typing at a > computer and smoking his pipe in the late afternoon of a gorgeous spring > day. Only the trees are breaking into flower all about him. > > David Thank you David for something classic and beautifully written. You web pages need some updating over the last few weeks, but people can read more of your writings and meet you at perhaps other stages of your understanding at <http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/umbada/hodges.htm> Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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