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Waxing and Waning
OM (AUM)- n. Hinduism & Buddhism. The supreme and most sacred syllable, consisting in Sanskrit of the three sounds (a), (u), and (m), representing various fundamental triads and believed to be the spoken essence of the universe. It is uttered as a mantra and in affirmations and blessings.It has been said that the Universe is very noisy. Something I can understand given the fact that there is so much activity going on - explosions, eruptions, meteorites and comets whizzing thru the cosmos, the implosion of old stars, births of new stars... the noise would be unbearable.
So why would Hinduism or Buddhism see this word, OM, as being 'the spoken essence of the universe'? Each noise that I spoke of and the billions of others are simply notes within a cosmic composition much like each note of an instrument within a symphonic orchestra... the sound of each and all coalescing into one sound - OM.
As one candles light ignites all other candles, the original candle light is not reduced. It still burns but yet has passed its light onto multiple other candles. One sound, the sound of the original burning candle 'igniting' another sound and on and on the expansion continues... a symphony of sound, a symphony of light imitating it source.
Science has yet to produce facts that prove this conception but certainly the ancients spoke of it and aren't we all carriers of the DNA of these ancients?
If biologically we are all related thru DNA would it follow that thru that link there would be a predisposition somewhere within us there is a common truth, a common understanding of our own source? Not a difficult pill to swallow.
The larger question this would bring up is: "Do we, mankind, have an origin and is that origin the same for all species of Life?"
Our human origins, biblically speaking, originated with an Adam & Eve living a life of blissfulness within a Garden of Eden. This idea may have its own origins in seeing this Adam & Eve not as humans but Adam as 'Yin' and Eve as 'Yang'... two polarities, (not human), the masculine and the feminine energies living in harmony within a state of bliss (Garden of Eden). Going back a bit further in this idea, the story goes that Adam was lonely and wanted companionship and was given Eve which came from his rib. Could this rib be symbolized by the Yin/Yang symbol that shows a black center surrounded by the white side of the symbol... and the white center within the black -
In order to adhere to the necessity of this circle-ness, Adam (Yin), had to have his Eve (Yang) or there would be no balance. Once the balance was provided this balance provided fullness, a wholeness (Holiness) of Being, not just human being, but the being of all Life.
The Edenic Life was interrupted by questioning... biting the proverbial apple. No longer able to simply revel in bliss, mind intruded upon this Eden and did what it does - questions... a 'devilish' act! A shift to another Yin/Yang where the completeness of bliss was shattered by questioning - mind versus no-mind... the sneakiness of mind slithering, snake-like, into our bliss with Who? What? When? Where? Why?... the five powers that drive mind.
One could see mind as a genetic function to allow the human to not only survive the earthly environment, but also mind as a delivery system to allow life, not exclusively human life, to survive beyond this Earth. Mind has given humans the ability to get off this earth and explore other worlds. As the possessors of mind it may be that it is mind over the human - the tool for life to survive beyond the inevitability of Earth's demise.
the Moon waxes - the Moon wanes
as does the Mind
to see Life anew
under the same
Light
within the same
Sound
the eternal
OM
whispering
Truth
that the
Light
reveals
_______
as does the Mind
to see Life anew
under the same
Light
within the same
Sound
the eternal
OM
whispering
Truth
that the
Light
reveals
_______
Cecil
15 January 2006
