Tomorrow, or in any case, very soon, I will give a call to someone with whom I have not spoken in about 20 years or so for the purpose of sending some images back which will be of better use in their family than staying here. While I have no clue how it will go, I wondered nonetheless how I would explain where I am at on the path. The person was raised Roman Catholic.
Before I forget everything that came to mind, I am writing it down, well, some of it anyway.
God - or spirit or the void, the great nothingness or the creator...the great emptiness is everywhere and ...well, it just is...and everything and anything anywhere manifest is how it manifests, how it lives, no exception, no judgement, ever. There is only what is.
And within that, we, you and I included, have arisen, temporary, physically appearing sentient focal points of a particular awareness and consciousness.
Everything you do or don't do to ANYTHING or ANYONE, you have done to the whole, G*D, the divine body. There are no exceptions to that, whether you know it or not. It makes perfect sense to me that a turning towards and recognition of "IT" delights it. Welcomed home and a feast for one who was lost. There is a weight of responsibility then in your actions and thoughts, towards self and anything you perceive outside of self...because, you have done it to G*d, self and everything.
Any kindness and compassion shown to it - soothes it.
What a journey it is, how flawed and limited one feels oneself to be....how maybe times lost, how many times unkind - with self and others.
The work is all internal.
Some do better than others - but it does not matter.
It only matters what you do and say to that big SELF and you.
Compassion arises with recognition and deeper levels of awareness, and sentience.
Reincarnation - not exactly the way I used to believe it would be....in a way, yes, but all that happens is that some"one" with a particular habit formation will manifest as form again, but not exactly you. In a way though....it is as if reconstituted, not really you, the human you know, just a similar constellation of habits and tendencies.
But this human ...this one today, here, only will be exactly as is - this one time, this once. Unique for all time - lived for G*d as a facet of G*d - never judged - piece of dirt, diamond in the rough, polished gemstone ... great experiments of Being. And yes, there is a path from the dirt to the polished jewel, yet there is no better or worse.
Anyway, just a rough sketch of where I am at with it.
