--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And why is it that the billions of souls on this atmospheric sphere > placed precisely in space, near Surya, have chosen this very moment > to realize the exact lessons, their perfect dreams, the specific > scenery of life that seems most real down to our smallest particle > of our being here? Someone was quoting Maharishi speaking about > magic. To me, this, all of this is magic. > > Why we see all what we see as real, is magic. Why we are able to see > the infinite diversity of God, just here and just now, as "humans" > on "earth". > > Considering the size of the Universe, just one, and we all share > this perfect dream together, billions of us dreaming this one > existence together, so perfectly and coherently that we can share it > with each other; a tree is always seen as a tree, a baby as a baby, > music always heard as music, food always nourishes, and at the same > time, each of us experiences every bit of it uniquely, with enough > infinite diversity on this small hot rock to produce infinity within > each and every one of us. Pure magic.
YES! I've always been tickled by the relationship -- identity, really -- of the words "maya" and "magic" -- and we aren't doing the word justice when we say (usually deprecatingly) "it's only maya" -- unless we use the word "only" more literally as "onely". It's not "only maya" -- it's Onely Magic! It's all in the particles, and unless we're willing to be the flea(s), we can't really enjoy being the elephant. Willingness to be Creature as well as Creator, and to be Creator being Creature, is where the Magic really begins! :-D
