Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00246)

Govert and Wilma Schuller wrote:
>
> At the same time we can not fathom in what way the Absolute is conscious,
> because we can only comprehend consciousness in its dual aspect, i.e. as an
> intentional act towards matter. Even comprehension itself, as a tool of
> grasping the meaning of the Absolute, is a mode of consciousness directed
> toward an object, hence dual and failing to unite with or touch the
> Absolute.

Bravo, Govert.

The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao.
The name that can be given is not the eternal name.

> Meanwhile the Absolute must be very, very close to us, we, beings of Spirit
> and Matter, because its our foundation of existence. Maybe it is so
> eternally close that it evades detection and we are not trained properly to
> detect it, because our consciousness always operates in a dual mode.  Advice
> in the vein of 'become the Absolute,' or 'dissolve into Parabrahm' or 'stop
> being dual' will not do if we have no clear idea what we have to leave
> behind.

How about a clear idea of a clear idea? ;-p

Tree'd hills
appear and dissappear ...


the misty void.


        My thoughts

                  and

            silence.

> A very illuminating parallel I found to this 'problem,'  (and here I want to
> end also with some reflections about the "Word") is in the way sound and
> silence are connected.  Sound--the "Word"--being manifestation, and silence
> being the Absolute. In common sense logic the two terms are mutually
> exclusive. If there is sound, then there is no silence; if there is no
> silence, there must be sound.  But what if, whether there is sound or its
> absence, there is always silence? And if there is sound, the silence embeds
> it, is its natural background?  The "Word" emerges from silence and will
> return back to it.  If this parallel between silence and the Absolute holds
> than inner quietude together with listening to the voice of silence behind
> the "Word" might be a nice start towards sensing Parabrahm.

There is no cause for trouble
for no longer is anyone here
but the One
and even the One is gone.

      Mountains and valleys
      in perfect accord
      complement one another
      quite naturally

Mark
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