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Recieved: 2003/09/18 14:35
Subject: [K-list] How To Explain?
From: elargonauto
On 2003/09/18 14:35, elargonauto posted thus to the K-list:
<Thank you all for responding to my post about consciousness
<expanding/expansion. And too, to E for actually moving the conversation
<into another realm, which Hillary answered with absolutely terrific quotes!
:))
<Yes! Interestingly enough in the past day, after trying to describe my
<experiences to my father (who listens patiently and even tries to
<understand), I came up with an "exercise" to try to imagine the vastness of
<the experience of the expanded consciousness, at least in my case: Try to
<imagine yourself as a drop of water. Then imagine yourself joining the
<ocean and becoming the ocean. You are the drop of water AND the ocean and
<not only that. You experience the entirety of the ocean! And then you
<again become a drop of water. Once one "experiences" the ocean, one will
<never doubt that we are much more than a drop of water.
I think I understand this visualization and I agree with the
meaning of it. The idea could be described like this ... "stop being a part
and become the whole". But what I think is being missed is an earthly
example, an example that veryone could understand more or less without
having read any book about spirituality.
That is what I have been creating little to little. Instead using
the model for the "ego/consciouness relation" I have used it to the
"mind/whole body relation". The idea is the same, but it is easier to grap
for a conventional person.
So instead saying that you are not your ego, that you are the
whole universe. I use to say that you are not your mind, that you are your
whole body. If you give this idea some credit and you start experimenting
with it, you´ll start a process of opening and expasion. i.e. you´ll start
merging with the ocean.
So this model have the same "direction" than the cosmic model,
but it is much more easy to imagine, understand and to put in use in a
practical way.
With this I´m not telling that I have understood completely the
"cosmic" idea. I think I´m a long walk from it and I´m not really sure I
wanted to. But I have understood the idea enough to make my own aproach.:).
<How very short a time we have to experience the totality of Everything in
<our little bursts of ...what?...experience, joy, rapture? ;-) And then
the
<world still turns under our human feet and we long for the experience
again,
<or the "knowing" or...how about, the escape from our human confines into
the
<Oneness of Everything?
Well, I think that the "mystic" experiences are just peaks in the
way. That the real goal is to enjoy a nice life in harmony. This poem will
describe my idea perfectly ...
"My daily affairs are quite ordinary
but I´m in total harmony with them
I don´t hold onto anything, don´t reject anything;
nowhere an obstacle or conflict.
Who cares about wealth and honor?
Even the poorest thing shines.
My miraculous power and spiritual activity:
drawing water and carrying food."
Layman P'ang
From the book ... Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
pag. 211
elargonauto.
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