"The Great Void and the Realm of Form are Not Two!"
The above quotation, by John Blofeld (from Bodhisattva of Compassion, the Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin), succinctly primes the reader for a quantum possibility: our minds are not separate from Mind (Blofeld)... Or, as physicist Amit Goswami puts it, "The breakthrough idea is that consciousness is neither a material brain product nor a dual object; instead, it is the ground of all being in which material objects exist as possibilities..." (from How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization). When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner, and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one so that the male will not be male and the female not be female, then shall you enter the Kingdom. -- Jesus of the Beloved (from the Gospel of Thomas) Mind, or Quantum Consciousness, is the undifferentiated no-thing-ness of Ultimate Reality. This "IT" is the sole reality... and manifested reality is, in essence, the means by which, or through which, "IT" discovers and knows itself... Mind is the boundless source: and creation is, as it were, the boundless mirror in which Mind knows itself... Blofeld: both philosophers and physicists are veering in the direction of believing that the whole universe is a mental creation... (from Bodhisattva of Compassion). This is perhaps the most meaningful (and playful) definition of our human purpose: we can choose to mirror the Quantum, Divine, Consciousness and thereby assist in Naming the Universe! The Kingdom is the recognition of, and the mystical re-entry into, the Ultimate Reality of Oneness... The Path, as outlined by Jesus of the Beloved, is that of living our lives as the process of "making the two one"... The practicalities of Oneness are the Beatitudes and the Great Parable of How the Rubber Hits the Road: I was hungry and you fed me... or as the case too often is: I was hungry and you did not feed me... Quantum spirituality is the particle and wave of 21st century transformation / rEvolution... Living the mantra of Divine Life of undifferentiated compassion, is the radical humility of knowing that nothing can exist idependently of everything or anything else... Simply put, we need to jerk our mind onto a new platform (a new dimension of consciousness): thirty years of life in a Soup Kitchen with the slow-turning of beads in hand, Hail Mary Oh Ma, boiled with the potatoes to become OM-Ah! And returning to Oh Ma when catastrophe was looking me in the face and turning again into Hail Mary when getting fat and happy... Surrendering into the soup of contemplation: seeking nothing (no-thing) only the be-coming of compassion... ungreedy... perhaps a simpleton... serene in obscurity... like a Third-World Mother... breathing the Mother in beads and service... a sage, a Buddha, a Christ... Namo Kuan Shih Yin P'u-Sa... Hail Mary full of Grace... Mother Mother... Oh Ma... Therefore should the mind be constantly fixed on her... (from the Lotus Sutra)... Ordinary consciousness must surrender before extraordinary consciousness... Ultimately (only) the Path is that of becoming the Mother... just like Jesus...
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AuthorRobert Daniel Smith was privileged to serve the homeless and marginalized for 30 years in California. He is living now almost within shouting distance of the Twin Cities. He is a poet, artist, writer, and long-time Companion of the Way still dreaming... Archives
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