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The old adage from the bible 'Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth much fruit' John 12:24. Also the pupa, egg to caterpillar dies and goes into the chrysalis butterfly. Metamorphosis.
It seems that the ego with its collection, bundle and extensive library and human will that drives the life of everyday and many times is aggressive, warlike, evil and malicious and also to many the only reality and when in full flight seems to be indestructible and immortal until some event shakes its foundations and can cause deep trauma or an awakening.
'Looking into metamorphosis and its definition as per dictionary and science; metamorphosis, in biology, striking change of form or structure in an individual after hatching or birth. Hormones called molting and juvenile hormones, which are not species specific, apparently regulate the changes. These physical changes as well as those involving growth and differentiation are accompanied by alterations of the organism’s physiology, biochemistry, and behaviour.' Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I feel this is just a scientific explanation and furthermore it is just a cold fact; I enquire yes hormones and all that, however, there must be information in the form of frequencies, vibrations and energy which broadcast the signals to allow the expression to take on these qualities. I feel it is a conscious planning and broadcast by an Intelligence and that intelligence is a field which pervades the entire Universe and It's dimensions, it is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. It is Spirit, God and The Source of Life.
The ego is a human 'bag' of self determination and often at odds with nature. These I experience as thoughts, the inner dialogue, mind chatter the 'monkey mind' and over the ages by countless peoples and customs with religious and life style cultural habits, routines, ceremonies and sacrifices that this collective world ego ethos is so embedded and cemented into a tight restrictive organism that very few have been able to die or free itself of this imprisonment, this is indeed the hard nut corn of wheat that needs to drop and die and then metamorphize into a Spiritual Being.
The seed has in it the whole signal sequences in micro frequencies which contact with the ground and its signals in the form of the Schumann Resonance and the Earths currents also helps the incubation, this is just my speculation. Whatever happens this is a miracle and the UNSEEN presence of Spirit silently transforms the seed into its new form. To me a miracle, to science a process of genetics.
To die to the mind chatter, the stigma of the ego is to be regarded by many as a crazy and insane thing to do, this is my identity, without this identity who am I? Yet dying to ego is not suicide or madness, does the caterpillar or seed if it could think 'Oh God I will die'? Or is it a natural process that is felt to be so without any qualms?
KrishnaMurti 'One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end'. The ego clings tenaciously to its stronghold and fights to the bitter end, the more one tries to supress the ego, the more the ego's cunning and forearmed strategies can wreak havoc on one and cause illness, bad luck and even untimely death and destruction.
Once one becomes aware of the process of inculcation (many previous SHACK's back) then one can by the process of intuition that is stepping back spontaneously that the body and Spirit silently and progressively realise in some deep semi conscious manner that the ego is beginning to realise the fallaciousness of its own logic and it in fact goes against the very foundations of life principles and purpose. It may begin to release by its own logic and understanding to begin the process of letting go of its tight reins and step gentle and slowly into a complete letting go of its major tenets. The corn of wheat is ripening to let go.
So the empty mind; We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves' Buddha. To the ego 'empty mind' of Buddhism is menacing and the ego fears its death, yet in meditation when the mind is alert and dynamic it feels pure and there is a glow and peace. And like Sitting Bull says at the image atop 'the one I feed the most'.
The ego will fight and the pull of it is exacerbated when I get a meditative experience as a peace and glow or write these kind of articles. Eckhart Tolle names it the 'Pain Body' and I can well relate to that.
So can the kernel, cob, seed, corn or whatever as an ego fall and be empty(the ego when dissipates leaves behind a mechanism for every day survival) and should it as an analogy fall into the empty glorious pure mind of the emptiness of thought and find itself in this glory, then the fruit is what this brings is be in this glory.
Be Still, Be Empty and know that Spirit.
SHACK
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