[as seen by a flyby]
"Take a giant step outside your mind" - Taj Mahal
The earth is alive with life... everywhere life is teeming, screaming, beaming, careening... busy and moving, change that never stops. The earth inhabited by life, a fungus living off itself, regenerating itself, sustaining itself... each and every life form struggling to keep their life, their lives alive and vibrant. We are all pieces of the pie, each of us a slice of moving, changing, transforming matter from embryo to an empty shell no longer capable of holding back life from moving on.
Life is diverse to keep it interesting. When life is interesting there is something that makes it all worth whil... a joy to being alive. All life intermingling with other forms containing that same spark that leaped off the great flame that warms and nourishes life... when the life form wears out, the spark, that spirit of consciousness escapes to the ethers to yet inhabit yet another new form fresh from the womb of procreation... we are all lit.
Our earth is the one oasis in a solar system of all matter that will fulfill life's desire to change... the endlessness of movement upon a planet that also is in constant flux.
Step outside Earth and step outside your mind. A new level of awareness follows... the mind is seen as that one place within the body of existence where there is a diverse and plentiful living. Like thinking, there is always some thing that attracts mind... but here beyond mind is a closeness to a place outside of the limiting questions that make mind what it is, what it has been and what there may be - an endless need to answer its questions.
When we question we are showing a level of caring... we'd care to know the answer, we'd care to understand what it is we are questioning... these questions/answers are what allows us to continue, asking more and more to understand our lives amongst all other life.
Consciousness is not questions/answers but being... simple acceptance of being... an observer's view that is not the questioning but the accepting of life that has been moviing, changing, transforming forever.
The seeds of life are spread throughout the universe, but not all planets are fertile. The seed cannot take root upon pure stone, it cannot sprout without the climatic conditions that allow its life to bloom... but Earth allows the correct conditions for life,as we understand it, to reach it's potential. Our commonality is what brings us together... mulitiple lifeforms each on their own levels, the duality of living off and living for other life forms.
Mind is but one level of our Being... one condition of existence, with mind we do what we are - think. 'Think' is the state that allows mind to engage according to its nature, its need to survive. But we find that our need is to survive comfortably in order to grasp our environment.... busy and changing - from the subatomic to the magnatomic, transforming in order to exist. Comfortably requires an ease with our life... too much dis-ease and we break down. The pulse of life runs not on our timepieces, our calendars, for those are fixed - immobile, they inhibit change and transformation if given too much importance. Good for measuring, but to make the measurement into a stationary condition may conflict with the pattern of Nature, which our mind calls 'un-natural.'
Life's need to survive is powerful. It requires Life to sustain the flame. Consciousness does not function without the Light. Without Light life does not live... life becomes extinguised. We see it happen when the energy of matter can no longer sustain a lifeform that is weakened and no longer able to sustain itself.
Consciousness is the fulfillment of duality, where there is no longer a need for answers for all is acceptance... like water in a glass, limited by the lifeform but fluid enough to accept its own space... aware of its nature to return to the endless sea.
When we accept our Self and our union with existence we become whole... complete. Our realization with this oneness with life takes us outside mind. When that one moment of realization frees us from the mind - our wholeness, like a flower, blooms forth into the garden of life and our essence of being joins the fragrant spirit of life flowing freely fulfilled... our finality, the birth of yet another journey...
cecil
24 october 04
Headless Samurai
[statue in a garden]
standing before life
with out mind
the samurai stands
ready for all that
passes before him
his battle within
won with emptiness
all becomes
wholeness
of presence
[photo by cecil]
