The cloud of unknowing
May 28, 2024 17:57:21 GMT
Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 17:57:21 GMT
The cloud had no mind to know where to rain, the puddle had no memory to retain the reflection, and the passing people were too busy to notice anyway. Yet an opportunity for a connection existed nonetheless.
The significance of space and emptiness
Take a good look around you, what do you see? You see a lot of stuff together in an environment. Doesn't matter where you are and what you're looking at, the one thing everything will have in common with everything else is that it will be surrounded by empty space. Now imagine that space did not exist. At all. How would you know what everything was? How would you be able to figure out any connection or relationship between one thing and another?
However space is also consciousness, and consciousness is the basis of existence. There's also akasha or spirit, but I want to deal with that in another blog post. This post I just want to stick to the basics of mindfulness, dreamweaving and development of consciousness. So for now let's stick to consciousness, which can also be space, but which is still consciousness....read more