I don't want to get into this too deeply, but I do try to meditate and have
even done some coursework on how best to do it. What I most like doing is to
go to the far end of my backyard in the evening, where I have a "grotto"
surrounded by trees and bushes. At times I've felt connected with all of the
plants and animals (mostly insects) around me. Was I really connected? I
don't know, but it sure felt like it.
Ed
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Is this not just another degree of separation?As we delve deeper into the
individual mind more questions arise. As we move farther away from the rhythm,
vibration, the "feeling" of the world, solar system, and up to the universe
(Higgs boson particle/wave, we move more deeply into the realm of the single
entity, the ego. But this "deeper delving" can only occur when we have the
freedom or "spare time" and the early stimulus from family and community to do
so instead of running from wolves, chasing the antelope or attempting to "pay"
for our lives in this day and age.
Is the "understanding' only to be thought of, or is it to be felt? Can a
"vibration" be properly understood by thought if one has never felt it. Just as
difficult to explain "heat" with words if there is no concept of the "feeling"
of something hot (the intense vibration of flame). By only nurturing the mind,
we run the risk of separating from the spirit, thus placing ourselves
inappropriately above all else. By relinquishing the feelings, do we not run
the risk of further separation of individuals thus leading to further insanity
as the ego demands more and more for its self in this realm but which will
never be received due to the loss of connection to the spirit? Just as there is
more to life than work, there is more to the human than just mind or thought.
Darryl
Aside: Why is law cold (just ice)
instead of compassionate (just is)?
On 24/07/2012 11:01 AM, Keith Hudson wrote:
At 17:58 24/07/2012, Pete wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Ed Weick wrote:
> We all need our gods because we exist in an insecure place, somewhere
> between birth and death (what comes before, what comes after?),
> between the infinitesimal and the infinite, and between humanity and
> brutality. We don't know where we are and have always needed a god or
> gods to guide and protect us.
> > Ed
[PV] I dont know, I rather think we would all be better off if we would
stand up to the challenge of learnig to be comfortable with just
saying "I don't know". I think it's the first step required on the
journey to discovering what is actually going on.
But will we ever know "what is actually going on"? It's only been
comparatively recently that we've realized that 95% of the mass-energy of the
universe is quite unlike anything else we know and is, at present, completely
unknowable. Then, too, as the particle physicists peel away yet another layer
(e.g. the Higgs boson) in particle accelerators, will we ever get to the end of
it?
To me, the biggest mystery of all is that, whether we believe in a
God-created universe or, simply, in one as-is or, at creation and shortly
thereafter, as-was (when we're talking of Higgs' and other particles) then how
come that we, a by-product of it, are actually asking questions that are far
more incisive and curious than anything that might have been selected for mere
daily survival by the normal process of evolution.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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