1. (a) To recall to the mind with effort; think of again: I finally remembered the address.
(b) To recall or become aware of suddenly or spontaneously: Then I remembered that today is your birthday.
2.To retain in the memory: Remember your appointment.
"Do you remember not being here?"
This was a question I found asking myself when I was about twenty-two years old. I didn't mean I remember never being at that spot physically but never having remembered being, i.e. alive... conscious of my being.
At that moment I realized that we have been alive forever - our bodies have a limited life, sure, but that sense of consciousness within, that which transcends the ego life of personality, that connection to eternity, the self that never dies.
There is something within all existence that sustains it, gives it momentum to be what it is, be it a tree, fish, insect, mammal, chimp, and yes, human. When this spark of life is extinguished from these various life forms, we call that 'death', although death is but a change. The shell containing life merely changes into different forms... food for the next generation of this earthly plane. We consume to exist, we are consumed by existence.
This realization of the physical structure and its imminent birth/death cycle, when the consciousness dissipates from the body and rejoins another life form structurally constructed thru the sub-atomic/molecular level (and beyond?) is the basis of life’s physical existence.
We can ask ourselves, using that theory as a platform, 'what is the origin of the energy that gives the sub-atomic level its momentum... what spins the protons and neutrons?' Molecularly what gives each molecule its drive to react in the matter that constructs this globular mass that collectively we have chosen to call "Life"?
If consciousness can conceive of this, it contains it. We all have this within us. It lies beyond the mind, beyond ego, it swallows it all, because it is every thing and no thing at once... the alpha-omega.
But this is not God. Our religions have created a God that has an ego, a God that can be angry, can be cruel, can avenge as well as embrace, love, provide. This religious God is a God of duality...more human than God so we may more easily attempt to understand this mystery.
Consciousness even contains that God. Full consciousness does not have intent, does not have reason, and does not 'do'. Being is ‘All-ah’ that there is, that all-pha/om-ega... the infinite/finite ‘breath of God’, the Sea of Consciousness... the Oceanic in which all things exist.
Even this effort at communicating the realization is but a tiny drop in that cosmic sea that can never be contained by mere words spoken by mankind.
Words are but a raft upon an ocean of experiences, only so much can be spoken before we sink ourselves, without making a wave in the eternal waters of Consciousness from whence we came and we shall return... the endless voyage of existence.
Remember outside the mind...
Cecil
12 December 2004
The Mountain has no mouth
yet speaks of eons passed...
The Mountain has no eyes
yet witnessed changes before we became...
The Mountain has no muscle
yet stands tall with confidence in being...
The Mountain has no heart
yet pulsates with the beat of life...
The Mountain stands tall
but is rooted to the same earth as all...
The Mountain has no mind
yet is connected to pure consciousness...
[stay high and embrace existence... remember]
Thanks, pardner!
It brings me a smile to read your kind words... Thanx again, compadre.