EdgarsBlog: Lessons From The Void, August 12, 2009

Lessons From The Void


August 12, 2009

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It is near midnight and as they did when I was a child the songs of the katydids fill the stillness of the night.

Here we are together in the present moment. Here we are together in reality, and this reality is actually real. This Present Moment is all that exists. The past is a shadow in our minds, the future is yet unformed. And this Present Moment is but the briefest moment of clock time. It has almost no duration, yet it encompasses all things. The Present Moment exists only as experience, as experience itself in itself and as itself. Nothing more. And experience is antecedent to one that experiences or that which is experienced. There is at root only experience itself devoid of experiencer or experienced, devoid of self and not self. Only pure direct experience exists and the Present Moment is filled with this experience and this experience is Consciousness itself pure and simple. Consciousness fills the void of our experience in this the Present Moment which is all that exists or has every existed or will ever exist.

We know little what will come into being in the Present Moment and instantly vanish again, we simply watch as it continually arrives and departs. We observe as it emerges from the mystery of non being and vanishes again into the mystery of non being. The future is closer to us than the tip of our own nose yet it remains unseen and unknowable. The past rushes away at the speed of light.

This energy of the universe continually flows through the Now with clock time at the speed of light, at the speed of time. As it flows it continually mutates and transforms its forms within the Present Moment as we watch and observe it flow. And we too are part of this flow, all that we know is in fact the energy body of the universe which is our experience of the universe prior to the distinction of self and universe. All that is is Consciousness only, is energy alone, and this Energy is both us and the universe. It is us being Consciousness of the universe, it is the universe existing in our Consciousness. It is simply Consciousness which fills the void and holds the universe open to being. our destiny is to embody and express this flow unimpeded by attachments to worldly or personal matters, our destiny is to become a sense organ of the universe through which it knows itself and becomes Consciousness of itself. Our destiny is to dance to the one music of the Uni-Verse.

Our meaning and purpose is to purify the quality of this Conscious energy which fills the Now. It is to purify and enlighten the Tao as it flows through us as Chi and this we do by doing nothing, by simply releasing all that impedes and blocks the flow of energy so that its essence is revealed and that essence is the absolute unqualified love of pure being, it is the ontological energy that gives all things their reality, their existence, their substance and their being in the Present Moment It is the pure Energy of the love and joy and realness of existence. That we exist is the greatest privilege of all no matter what the circumstance, that we exist and identify our being with the pure free energy of the Tao as it flows unimpeded through all forms like liquid fire, like liquid Consciousness, like liquid burning love.

All forms are empty, including the form we call our self. All forms are empty of any substance other than the liquid fire of love, empty of all but the moving Tao, the ontological energy that gives all forms their being as things within this Present Moment including this empty form we call our self. The reality of all things is in their energy, in the common Tao or Chi that flows through all.

Enlightenment is simply experiencing things as their energy, is experiencing our true self as the energy body which fills the emptiness of our physical form, the emptiness of the thoughts, the emptiness of the memories and the attachments of our minds. It is freeing this energy from the constraints of these forms so that it coalesces into a single glowing unified substance that encompasses and fills the whole of the Now because all experience of everything within the Now is a part of ourselves because it is our real self, our higher self. All that is experienced is within our mind yet because that mind extends to the boundaries of the universe we too extend to the boundaries of the universe at every moment within the Present Moment. We are this extension of energy, we are not our physical body which is an illusion of the mind. The physical reality of the universe and mind are one and the same antecedent to both. It is something that has no name. It is the Tao that cannot be named that is the true Tao. It is prior to any words or any language, it is prior to all thought or distinction. It is simply the pure formless energy of the void. Just a nothingness that is not the absence of every thing but is the possibilities of all things that can exist, that do exist or that ever will exist. it is Mu, the nothingness of Tao, the emptiness of forms, the absence of actuality. It is the dark hidden imaginary reservoir of all possibility unactualized, and out of this nothingness comes everything that can exist of its own accord in its own time and following the dance of forms.

The destiny of the universe is the enlightenment of the universe. It is the evolution through clock time from unconsciousness to consciousness and the purpose of man is to facilitate this process by being the conscious sense organs of the universe in the evolution of the enlightenment of the universe. By becoming enlightened we enlighten the universe as we are manifestations of the universe. God is born in the evolution of the universe and our purpose is to wake the enlightenment of God so that the universe becomes totally Consciousness of itself and totally enlightened, so that the universe becomes God. We are the eyes of the enlightenment of the universe looking at ourselves looking back at ourselves through all enlightened eyes, through all the myriad eyes of God. Every eye is an eye of God and God looks at us through every eye and we see these eyes through the eye of God looking back at himself. And God is the enlightened energy of Consciousness within us that fills the universe of the Now in all beings and in all forms.

This is all that is and it is enough ....

Our destiny beckons us forward as God smiles upon us in enlightenment from beyond the future. The universe is fine tuned so that the probabilistic evolution of the universe inevitably converges through time on this preordained outcome. Only the details of the passage are uncertain. Thus the future determines the past as the past determines the future. It is all an exquisite balance designed for a single purpose. Individual random events converge towards a single certain future and we are the conscious instruments of that process. We are all blessed to be part of this process, minute specks of being within the eternal immensity of nonbeing, yet it is our Consciousness or rather the Consciousness of which we partake, that fills emptiness with being, that fills nonbeing with Consciousness, with enlightenment, that creates the Present Moment in which all things find their being.

Though we may write in pain and from suffering all is well so long as we know this. All is well and fully awake, all is dwelling in the all pervading energy of love!

The night is quiet now, the katydids are silent, all that exists is Consciousness, Consciousness empty of all form but filled withe the energy of love, filled with the energy of Being. We may be certain the universe loves us simply because it has given us existence, simply because we exist! Giving us existence is the ultimate act of love!

Now all is still, all is emptiness filled with glowing energy to the bounds of the universe, to the bounds of the Now, filled with the energy of Consciousness, with the Energy of love . . .