Dharma's Maya Post

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Dear All:

 

Am reposting this exerpt from Dharma. THis is an EXCEPTIONALLY poignant

piece.

It illustrates alot of the disease of Apollonian one-pointed, one-lined

scientific thinking versus the hologramatic Dionysian thinking which I've

been trying unsuccessfully to

put into words. Here are the words.

 

This explains why if you put a point on the sculpture that's what you have,

if you draw a line from your eye to the sculpture, then that's what i have,

one line, one ray, one color. The physicist who designs the 5000th nuclear

bomb to blow up the world again, has this sight, the one line Apollonian

sight.

 

If you look from many planes then we begin to see more wholistically, more

roundedly and more possibilities exist than what is apparent in our limited

one-pointed vision.

 

L*L*L

~ bo ~

 

MAYA AS THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLE AND

THE DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

>From the aforesaid it will have become evident that we are not concerned

here with a subjective idealism, based on logical speculations, concepts

and categories, but with a doctrine which is founded upon the reality of

the mind and its deepest experiences.

If we call maya a reality of a lower degree, we do this because

illusion rests on the wrong interpretation of a partial aspect of reality.

Compared with the highest or 'absolute' reality, all forms, in which this

reality appears to us, are illusory, because they are only partial aspects,

and as such incomplete, torn out of their organic connexions and deprived

of their universal relationship. The only reality, which we could call

'absolute', is that of the all-embracing whole. Each partial aspect must

therefore constitute a lesser degree of reality - the less universal, the

more illusory and impermanent.

To a point-like consciousness the continuity of a line is

inconceivable. For such a consciousness there exists only a continual and

apparently unrelated origination and passing-away of points.

To a linear consciousness - we could call it a one-dimensional

consciousness, in contrast to the non-dimensional point-like consciousness

- the continuity of a plane would be inconceivable, because it can only

move in one direction and only comprehend a linear relationship of points

following each other.

To a two-dimensional consciousness the continuity of a plane, i.e.,

the simultaneous existence of points, straight lines, curves, and designs

of all kinds are conceivable, but not the spatial relationship of planes,

as they form for instance the surface of a cube.

In three-dimensional space-consciousness, however, the relationship of

several planes is co-ordinated to form the concept of a body, in which the

simultaneous existence of different planes, lines and points can be

conceived and grasped in their totality.

Thus the consciousness of a higher dimension consists in the

co-ordinated and simultaneous perception of several systems of relationship

or directions of movement, in a wider, more comprehensive unity, without

destroying the individual characteristics of the integrated lower

dimensions. The reality of a lower dimension is therefore not annihilated

by a higher one, but only 'relativized' or put into another perspective of

values.

If we perceive and co-ordinate the different phases in the movement of

a point proceeding in one direction, we arrive at the perception of a

straight line.

If we perceive and co-ordinate the different phases in the movement of

a straight line, travelling in a direction not yet contained in it, we

arrive at the conception of a plane.

If we perceive and co-ordinate the different phases in the movement of

a plane, in a direction not yet contained in its dimension, we arrive at

the perception of a body.

If we perceive and co-ordinate the different phases in the movement of

a body, we arrive at the perception and understanding of its nature, i.e.,

we become conscious of its inherent laws and mode of existence.

If we perceive and co-ordinate organically the inner movement (growth,

development; emotional, mental, and spiritual movement, etc.) of a

conscious being, we become aware of its individuality, its psychic

character.

If we perceive the manifold forms of existence, through which an

individual has to pass, and observe how these forms arise, according to

various conditions, and depending on a multitude of inherent factors, we

arrive at the perception and understanding of the law of action and

re-action, the law of karma.

If we observe the various phases of a karmic chain-reaction in their

relationship to other sequences of karmic action and reaction, as this is

said to have been observed by the Buddha, we become conscious of a

supra-individual karmic interrelatedness, comprising nations, races,

civilizations, humanity, planets, solar systems and finally the whole

universe. In short, we arrive at the perception of a cosmic world-order, an

infinite mutual relationship of all things, beings and events, until we

finally realize the universality of consciousness in the Dharmakaya, when

attaining Enlightenment.