Thanks Dan,
The quote is very helpful to me. It helps me understand how I connect
with what I don't know. And it helps me understand that when other
seem to say they know what something is, which had seemed to me
unknowable, they are just trying to connect with it, through their
own sense of meaning.
David Mathes
Melbourne and Guangzhou (actually Shunde, just outside Guangzhou, the
food is different, which is what matters of course)
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Safe in Deep Waters
Posted by: "Dan Booth Cohen" danbcohen@xxxxxxx bunnywhoo
Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:05 pm (PDT)
Sadhana -
Here again is the photo taken by my wife:
http://www.hiddensolution.com/images/ocean.jpg.
It is me and my younger daughter Rosie dipping our toes in water. The
ocean
is an apt metaphor for the spirit-mind. It is vast and moves of its own
accord, carrying life, creation and destruction with it. The
consciousness
of the ocean cares nothing for the fate of any particular organism.
Innumerable forms come into birth and disintegrate in death with each
passing of the Sun. To the ocean, there is no good or bad, right or
wrong.
It is wonderful to come into contact with the consciousness of the ocean
spirit-mind. Still, to my wife on the beach, my daughter and I being
swept
out to sea is bad and wrong; returning our toes to the sand is good and
right. Holding her hand, I dare not lose myself in the surf. That
would be
bad. How can I be a husband and father without good and bad, right and
wrong?
Some go deeper. Some stay safer. Stephan Jay Gould explained that where
scientific knowledge ends, "Each of us has to have a personal
metaphysics.
There are questions that are formally unanswerable on which nonetheless
every individual must take a position in order to integrate various
pieces
of his life." These are personal, subjective choices. What is right for
you is right for you.
The common thread that unites the members of ConstelationTalk is we look
from a space of no thought for what has been separated. Yes, wholeness
happens. Yes, there is the healing.
Dan
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