Friday, 12 October 2018

SHACK 414 EMPTY OR NOT?

Zen stories to tell your neighbours


Out of the emptiness of oneself and there is only one self that is all of us and everything appearing to be many, there comes a realisation of the magic of illusion and make believe.  Make believe everything is forever and on firm ground and with no mystery.

Everything is a mystery; why was I born?  Yes sure my parents copulated or maybe some were test tube children with a sperm donor and yet somehow you arrived.

Then this organism may get ill, falls in love (how can one fall in love if one is love? Ouch) and so many activities humans do to many extremes and still the answer to why is life, life, the Universe vast and massive, enormous and powerful, why the sun, the moon, why and how, how? Maybe an intellectual answer, however the mind is limited by the content of its learning and experience and this changes in the course of time.

What lies behind the mind or should I say behind the graphics that appear on the screen of mind may provide a few tentative answers which of course provokes more questions.  One can go quite mad banging one’s head on the wall of intellect and logic for the answers.

Can infinity and eternity have defined answers? ----If so the definition has to be as spacious as infinity and as long as eternity.  To define these two aspects which maybe one aspect is the fuel for the quest and one often hears that enlightenment is the answer, it is only the first step on the ladder to nowhere, it is the starting line, it is the bait for the seeker , and when the seeker realises that infinity is eternity the seeker also realises there is no answer and there is no reason and in that giving up has found that space that is what the seeker has been looking for and as there is nothing found or seen and yet fulfilled with the experience of this space for it an alive dynamic consciousness then one has found the unlimited space---and is satisfied to reside there because the realisation dawns ‘I am the Space I have been looking for’

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