06-19-2010, 12:00 AM
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Our perception of time makes some things look permanent and other things look temporary, but in this dynamic ocean of being, everything is constantly swirling in and out of existence, just like a jar of water removed from the ocean, like anything we can think of - a mosquito, a mountain, a galaxy, a wo/man - all fluid and unforming.
A spark is born and dies in a split second, while the sun seeems to last forever, but if your time perception shifted in one direction, that spark might seem to last forever, like the sun.
Shift the other way and you could watch the sun flicker in and out of being like a spark.
Which is correct? Both? Neither?
We can make the same statement about spatial perception. Shift one way and the sun is the size of a spark, go the other way and the spark seems to fill the universe. I wasn't here a hundred years ago and I won't be here a hundred years from now, I'm just flickering in and out of being. I was scooped up and I'll soon be poured back, so what's the truth of me?
"Who am I?" That's the question. If we want to know, find out. Use Recapitulation and Death Awareness. Think as hard as we possibly can. Dare to be a fool. Unchain ourselves from respectability. Take an oath. Declare war.
As brother Jed said: "Burn it all. Burn everything. That's what real Zen [or Nagualism?] is about. Nuke your life. What gets destroyed was never yours in the first place."
Our perception of time makes some things look permanent and other things look temporary, but in this dynamic ocean of being, everything is constantly swirling in and out of existence, just like a jar of water removed from the ocean, like anything we can think of - a mosquito, a mountain, a galaxy, a wo/man - all fluid and unforming.
A spark is born and dies in a split second, while the sun seeems to last forever, but if your time perception shifted in one direction, that spark might seem to last forever, like the sun.
Shift the other way and you could watch the sun flicker in and out of being like a spark.
Which is correct? Both? Neither?
We can make the same statement about spatial perception. Shift one way and the sun is the size of a spark, go the other way and the spark seems to fill the universe. I wasn't here a hundred years ago and I won't be here a hundred years from now, I'm just flickering in and out of being. I was scooped up and I'll soon be poured back, so what's the truth of me?
"Who am I?" That's the question. If we want to know, find out. Use Recapitulation and Death Awareness. Think as hard as we possibly can. Dare to be a fool. Unchain ourselves from respectability. Take an oath. Declare war.
As brother Jed said: "Burn it all. Burn everything. That's what real Zen [or Nagualism?] is about. Nuke your life. What gets destroyed was never yours in the first place."