In proportion to your fascination with thought you will leave the contentment of the Heart for the imagination of the Mind. In proportion to your fascination with Beingness you will rest in the Heart and ignore the seduction of thought streams which take you always away from Being into metaphors conceptualized by Mind.
Being is always implicated with thinking, with concepts - implicated because it is the very source of concepts, the very source of conception for all appearance that comes into existence as Consciousness Itself. Being is the very source of one’s sense of self, one’s sense of being alive, of existing; and furthermore, Being is that alone through which existence is known by a thinker.
This stops a cycle we call time. This means that instead of living in time - in our thoughts - we are living NOW, spontaneously.
An individual, the ego, arises in each moment we forget to be in Love, our true nature. When a cord is struck within, and this fills us with inner joy, this is out of time, out of ego, out of thought. We do not need thought to interpret joy - it just is. Love just is. We don’t have to run it by our mind to know when Love is present. It's a mind-bypass. Most people are conducting a Heart-bypass, relying on their minds to figure It out.
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'metaphors conceptualized by the mind' - like I AM HUMAN - we take this as a fact, but it is really a metaphor. I am not a thing. I am the am'ness, Being.
ReplyDeleteI think that the reversal on 'common sense' in this post is sensible: I think that the point is how we tend to metaphorize Being as a thing, too.
When, on the contrary, It is not only always under our nose, it IS the nose and the nose's very power to smell. We think our perceptions are images of things - but our perceptions are just pulses in Being, echos of Being, sightings by Being, traces of Being. To call Being anything is metaphor: imagination: story telling.
So, waking up is a whole new reading of the stories our language (and unconscious mind) tells, through ontological metaphors. I like this post very much.
We are not our thoughts...it would be more correct to say we are the consciousness within which the thought processes occur...and beyond that we cannot say, or can say only metaphorically what is That that engenders consciousness & these images & representations of Being.
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