Ruminations 2

Ruminations of the Universe #2: Transcendent River

Many times the wisest of sages refer to the Tao as being like a river. This is as close to an approximation as possible using human language and mental references. Things are always changing. There is no point where anything is at a standstill. We are sometimes lulled into believing that they are because of slow vibration and the Earthly passage of time. Allow scientific principles to become a type of vision in your method of reckoning. If you look hard enough you will be able to see that the table you thought was solid is really a multitude of atoms endlessly buzzing. Manifested items are really quite temporary. They might hold pattern integrity for 10, 50, or even 100 years or more, but what is that in the belly of infinity? Each creation is like a dream that comes and goes rather quickly.

How much do we have to unravel to understand with our own being, the nature of the Universe? All the way, because any imprint left will color that which IS. Starting with where you are this moment, go backwards through this lifetime you have been living. Strip off the layer of social conditioning, schooling, family values, and fundamental divisions in your mind. Allow yourself to reflect the whole of reality at once. The process of deprogramming one life is somewhat known, but if you truly seek to fully recover cognizance of your highest self, you will have to unravel the mess of your past lives as well. There are all kinds of Karmic threads we must end; also much experience we can benefit from to be assimilated. Hold awareness and allow your truth to unfold without doubt.

Again we dive into our brain at the level of the synapse. Even as you and I might discuss something, so too does one synapse fire some information to another. Now imagine a room full of people/synapses all shouting to be heard. Sound like any Mind you might know? Which voice should we choose to listen to? Actually none of them are the correct one. Synapses all reflect some external stimulus until you gain the understanding that grants them the freedom of rest and silence at long last. In meditation we often hear that the seeker is to become silent. This may feel like oppression at first because most only know silence as a forced thing. When we release our attention from identification with the crowd’s chatter, we effortlessly relax in a pool of healing energies. Here we hear our heart.

Buddha uses the method of negation to reveal transcendent reality. The peculiar nature of the situation is such that if he were to suggest to you something in the positive, it would become the very obstacle which would keep you from seeing the same. Instead he says, “No longer be distracted by the temporary oscillations of this and that. Forget petty concerns and value the opportunity. There is one reason we are here and I will remind you of it. I will not give you the answer. I will help you to discontinue hindering yourself. Stop and see.” We create the murky waters. If we let them settle, we will see to the bottom. We are connected to everything and what we witness outside is but the symbol of the deeper inner meaning. This is the secret that has been elusive to humanity.

~Christopher Moors

11/24/2006