An unknown traveller on the road leading to nowhere, trying to hitch a ride to somewhere in order to find nothing
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In the silence between the words, between consciousness lies the Ultimate Knowledge. Just listen ....
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Monday, July 26, 2004
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Subject: Zen + Shebang (Message #995051)
Area: Lesson 2
From: Connee
Date: Wednesday, 21-Jul-2004 6:58 PM
Okay, Michael,
Four days later I'm still trying to figure out what you wrote.
We only "know" what we experience of the world directly, only what has come inside us.
Okay. If I've never been to China, for example, can I "know" that China exists...or does it simply exist as a thought form or a belief for me? Seeing pictures or hearing about it doesn't make it real in my world, right? I have no direct experience of it. And China's very large. I couldn't say that I know China if I only visit Beijing for a few days.
(A Zen master asked two of his students if a boulder they observed was there because it was in their consciousness. One student said no, Master. The other student said yes, Master, it exists in my consciousness, therefore I encounter it in my world. The Zen master said, well, you are carrying around a very heavy mind!)
Physics is like that. Does observing a thing change the reality of the thing observed? If everything can only be observed in relation to something else, does it have any reality of its own? Is it all a manifestation of consciousness? In non-dual reality, aren't the creator and the created one, the observer and the observed the same? Moment by moment through a process we don't understand and within the framework of my thoughts and my karma, am I literally creating the world I experience (as well as creating myself)?
In physics there comes a point (actually many points) where the math and the physical laws we know to be true don't work; there's no explanation, no "theory of everything". Math will take the physical universe backwards in time to an impossible point that's called the singularity, which theoretically is the entire universe the size of a proton before the Big Bang. Also called the infinite curvature of space. This is not possible in physical terms, so you have to break out of the physical mindset and consider the metaphysical.
In considering koans or the accelerating expansion of space or eternity/infinity, it seems we have to break out of our physical mindset and get both hemispheres of the brain working together to consider the UNreal reality.
Occasionally in your life you may have a "mystic" experience. Something happens to you that's so off-the-wall weird and unexplainable, it's going to make you wonder for the rest of your life, What the HECK was THAT? The answers science is looking for are beyond science. The answers we're looking for personally - our koans, problems and unexplainable experiences - on our path are beyond our reasoning mind.
If we only use ten percent of our brain, will meditation open up the unused, untried portions of the brain to receive more knowledge of a "universal" nature?
In the book, "The Nature of Personal Reality," by Jane Roberts, "Seth" explains how our thoughts create our reality. It's been around for 30 years and I still don't understand it. Maybe that's because I have to EXPERIENCE it, and that's my koan. Am I actually experiencing it and I'm just not aware of it?
Okay, that's enough!
(The foot doesn't experience itself as a foot except in the context of its function?)
Thanks, Michael!
=)Connee
1:12 AM
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