The River That Remembers Its Source
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The actually loved and known
The contemplative life is not in fact about ideas at all, really. It is far more practical, even down-to-earth, than that. In a sense, the contemplative doesn’t care about constructing a metaphysical framework. What happens is merely experience. When a person enters the stillness of “awakened” consciousness, the rigid boundaries of the self drop away. The immediate, felt reality of that state is precisely one of mutual indwelling.
In that state, we don’t look at nature; we are in nature, and nature is in us. We don’t so much sympathise with another person’s suffering as we experience our existence as continuous with theirs. Charles Williams’ coinherence becomes simply a description of what it actually feels like when the ego’s filtering mechanism relaxes – when Huxley’s doors of perception drift open of themselves.
All that we are consists in our relationship with all that is; not in an abstract sense, but in vital, lived reality. When the boundaries of the self are fully defended, this is no more apparent than the atoms that constitute the hands typing these words; but the function of the contemplative mind is to dissolve those boundaries to little more than a fitful mist across what is. Each one of us is in fact infinitely permeable, and infinitely, intricately conditioned. We reflect each other, and are reflected, like dew drops in a web of uncountable dimensions, bright with the light of the isness from which they emerge. It follows that what each of us does or thinks or feels, in the minutest degree, affects all others, human or otherwise, sentient or not. And so we are ourselves affected, from the least to the farthest.
To know this, and yet to sit still, is in some way the greatest gift. “The ‘pristine awareness’ that is the fundamental ground itself” (Stephen Batchelor) holds all that is, the “ten thousand things” of the ancient Taoists: our sitting in some way brings them into that whole and healing light, despite ourselves. We cannot know it, cannot hold an image of it as we could hold a book or a glass paperweight, and yet unknown, it is most precious; not to be held, it is maybe the gift the world needs.
[*the title is taken from David Jones: “…[F]or only what is actually loved and known can be seen sub specie aeternitatis“]
#AldousHuxley #awareness #CharlesWilliams #DavidJones #Laozi #StephenBatchelor #stillness #unknowingOn Fear, and the Crossing
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Knowing Enough..
> ち‐そく【知足】
１ 《「老子」三三章の「足るを知る者は富む」から》みずからの分をわきまえて、それ以上のものを求めないこと。分相応のところで満足すること。
> He who knows he has enough is rich.^2
> 【知足】ちそく
足るを知る。〔老子、四十六〕罪は欲すべきより大なるは(な)く、は足るを知らざるより大なるはく、咎(とが)は得んと欲するより大なるはし。故に知足を知りて足れりとせば、常に足る。
> .. [They] who know... that enough is enough will always have enough.^3
https://kotobank.jp/word/知足-565925#w-3042958
^2 https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu33.html
^3 https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu46.html
https://terebess.hu/english/tao/_index.html
#老子33 #老子46 #LaoZi33 #LaoZi46 #LaoZi #老子 #LaoTzu
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