Contemplative meanderings
The more we comprehend, the more we discover. Discoveries, in turn, grow our comprehension. Our comprehension grows with our discoveries, and on it goes as knowledge expands.
Mystics through the ages have known there is more to existence than the eye reveals. They have related a common vision for that which lies beyond the body and its world. The paths taken vary. The result is the same. To find reality, go within. Herein you touch upon the mystery however you may describe it.
That which is within is the soul of your being, your awareness of you beyond the body. Be its witness. Engage your inner awareness.
What you perceive in the world is altered by the body through which you peer. Bring your witness forward. Now you have eyes to see. Your perceptions of existence will shift from separation to oneness. More of your true nature will enter the world via twia. You are limited in body. Twia is boundless.
The world out there exists in mind. You perceive its existence. You interact with it as a separation. It is not separate. Your thoughts determine its makeup. How you perceive the world governs how the world appears to you. What you believe it to be is what you experience. Different perspectives yield different worlds. There is not an objective entity outside of you that is the same to everyone. Your thoughts and beliefs yield the world in which you live. To change your world, consider a different perspective. Change your thoughts. Change your beliefs. Change your world. Expand your world beyond the limits imposed by the me of the body and its current situation. You do not need to live in fear and ignorance. Practice mindfulness. Hold to twia. Twia brings you guidance in all things. Twia knows the way. The way is inward. Enter the room within. All things arise from within.
The emptiness that is nowhere is within. Why? Because there is nothing outside. Consciousness has no boundaries. It is the potential of all. What exists lies in mind as possibility that cannot be real, much like a unicorn in the mind of a dreaming child. Reality lies beyond comprehension. It cannot be described nor named from within your existence. You touch upon it without thought in the still silence of the room within. You might say that the unicorn senses the child only in the still silence. Even then, the unicorn cannot comprehend the complexity of the child and its reality.
The emptiness that is nowhere is eternal. Time is unknown. There is no separation into spacetime but in mind. Consciousness holds separation as a thought that has no reality.
There is existence. There is reality. Existence is transitory. Reality is unchanging. Existence has cycles of beginnings and endings. Reality is eternal. Existence is separation. Reality cannot separate into this and that. Existence is limited. Reality is boundless. Existence is illusion. Reality is absolute.
Existence is illusion in consciousness, like a dream. Existence is consciousness expressing thought of separation. Separation cannot be real. There is only consciousness. Not consciousness and something else. This and that are thought held in consciousness. They are not separate from consciousness.
To see existence as separate is to suffer in fear of isolation and oblivion. Ignorance of your true nature leaves you feeling alone and lacking. Your desire for love and fulfillment leads to expectations and attachments. Unfulfilled expectations and loss of attachments is suffering.
To live as the me of the body in existence is to live in what appears to be a real world. The world is perceived as real. There is a real tree with a low limb and a real bump on the head when you do not watch where you are walking. The world is real but not in reality. The world that you experience is a transitory reality. It exists, but not eternally. Reality is eternal. The transitory world is existence. In truth, existence has no reality but in mind.
Physics studies existence. Metaphysics contemplates reality. Metaphysics attempts to answer questions not always examined by physics. The universe appears to be real in its existence, but it is not real because it is transitory. Reality is eternal. Existence is not eternal. But to exist is to live in the perception of reality. Existence is a real world unto itself, much like a modern virtual reality is a real world unto itself built up in the mind through programming. Together, physics and metaphysics offer answers to our existential questions.
As the me of the body, you do not know what consciousness is. You do not know what I AM is. You are ignorant of what is not of your existence. The me of the body does not comprehend what lies beyond it. It does not know that it is illusion, a dream of separation in consciousness. The me of the body experiences its existence as real.
The me of the body lives in ignorance, though it accumulates vast amounts of information about its existence and the world/universe in which it lives. The information is true, like a unicorn is true, but not real. Reality is eternal. You cannot know reality by looking at the world. The world is not real. To touch the eternal, go within. In the room within lies your true nature.