I think the entry below is more about becoming someone or something greater than who we perceive ourselves to be. Not from ego or what might be called ego and self-aggrandizement. Now there’s a word we don’t hear very often. But to practice seeing beyond ourselves and our limited view or vision of the world in which we live to know that almost all those things we think we need or want, we don’t really need or want them at all. To what we learned in the I Ching, that the journey depends on our seeing and traveling beyond what we think we need or want. That there is something that exists within us that we have yet to discover. For many they call them chakras as universal vibrations we respond to.
It is what our memories and history teach us and perceiving our identity within this universe that matters. It’s what the American Indians have celebrated for hundreds if not thousands of years as prayer circles, just as with Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, that we are to experience our existence this way. It is that inner light that exists in all living things as something we can call the primordial memory of Creation. It is not only for man, but all things found in nature. It is the dust we came from and to where we return that is universal and has always been present. It is said that “Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself,” it is not enough to return to our source – but once we have done so, we are rejuvenated, and become the source over and over again.
What is changeless is not individual body/mind, but rather the Mind that is shared by all existence. Quantum physics teaches us that these atoms go back and forth through space and time as universal breath as the earth, tides, and stars. It is our own eternal Mind, or spirit, that gives us the ability to remember when we are ready. It is often only the illusion of man’s ego and thoughts of individual existence that separates us from this reality. What I have found is that we are not to live in a limited picture of existence, but to one we can see us as transcendent. As though we, as spirit, are to remains true to our journey, often traveling on the wind, before we too return home to the stars. As we then acknowledge that both time and space are no longer relevant.
In the Book of Job, The Lord demands, “Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the Earth? Declare, if thou hath understanding! Who laid the cornerstone thereof, where the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” I know I was there, as we all were. Just as the entity that has created all things found in the universe can/has come forth as many forms to demonstrate the power of nature, love, and virtue for all creatures great and small.
As Lao Tzu, and the Tao reminds us that from one comes two, and from two – many. Who is to say all the spiritual leaders at the time, Lao Tzu, the Buddha, and others fit this description as sons of God from the culture where they lived. With the only real teaching, or Commandment, that we are to love thy neighbor as thyself.
Voices of the Dragon Part 2 Number 3
Becoming Irrelevant… what I should have written was “Becoming Irrelevant to Space and Time”.
Know that inside and outside are the same. That truth and falsehood are not the issue and begin to travel with dragons on clouds in the sky. Know that there is no way to discuss the ultimate joy found in finding the true path of virtue and the oneness to be found in all things.
Physical descriptions become irrelevant to explanation of how all things fit together in a unifying purpose to be found as one yesterday, today and forever for all things to be found in the universe. The Tao teaches that the essential elements making up all things are to be found in everything only shaped in different ways. That sameness is the essential Tao. Coming to know this basic tenant is the underlying reason for one’s journey.
The journey is long and arduous. It is difficult to bear, hard to continue and only more impossible to endure. You are forever blown along with the wind. As a leaf with no real destination. Only a sense of purpose brought along for the ride into eternity as the crane and tortoise are to longevity and beyond.
Final destinations unknown. With nothing brought along as an itinerary except as the elements dictate things to come. A randomness that foregoes any relevance to anything not essential to the true way.
Assist only with the collapse of reason and find the path blocked for everything except that that can begin again to built on a true foundation. Built solid in the words and images of the Tao and by God himself as all that will be needed to succeed. 4/11/94
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