"Because of you, there is a world." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Look at it this way: above and beyond and through, all-encompassing and all-pervading, is an infinite field of potentiality: the Supreme Reality. It is beyond being and not-being. Arising from this field is consciousness, which might be compared to the vibrations of the radio spectrum pervading all of space, and like receiver tuners our body-minds pluck channels from this spectrum and interpret them locally as our reality. Our conditioned understanding of reality, then, is actually fabricated and delimited, a colloquial concoction of our sensual and cognitive apparatus. What's more, this apparatus and its world are both ultimately composed of consciousness; in fact, we are consciousness reflected back upon itself through the body-mind conduit, although most of us are ignorant of this. Why is this important to realize? First and foremost, to discern the real from the false is why we are here, to awaken, to fully realize what we truly are. Furthermore, we lose our fear of death and with it all of the misguided misery this fear imposes upon our lives and our temporal world. We realize deeply that when our body-minds finally blink out, the spectrum of consciousness continues and we are this consciousness. We finally experience truth as Being-Knowledge-Bliss, a fresh perspective infused with acceptance, love and freedom.
"It's the same story the crow told me,
It's the only one he knows.
Like the morning sun we come,
And like the wind we go."
- Robert Hunter
Look at it this way: above and beyond and through, all-encompassing and all-pervading, is an infinite field of potentiality: the Supreme Reality. It is beyond being and not-being. Arising from this field is consciousness, which might be compared to the vibrations of the radio spectrum pervading all of space, and like receiver tuners our body-minds pluck channels from this spectrum and interpret them locally as our reality. Our conditioned understanding of reality, then, is actually fabricated and delimited, a colloquial concoction of our sensual and cognitive apparatus. What's more, this apparatus and its world are both ultimately composed of consciousness; in fact, we are consciousness reflected back upon itself through the body-mind conduit, although most of us are ignorant of this. Why is this important to realize? First and foremost, to discern the real from the false is why we are here, to awaken, to fully realize what we truly are. Furthermore, we lose our fear of death and with it all of the misguided misery this fear imposes upon our lives and our temporal world. We realize deeply that when our body-minds finally blink out, the spectrum of consciousness continues and we are this consciousness. We finally experience truth as Being-Knowledge-Bliss, a fresh perspective infused with acceptance, love and freedom.
"It's the same story the crow told me,
It's the only one he knows.
Like the morning sun we come,
And like the wind we go."
- Robert Hunter
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