Remembering (#2011)
Reflections while wandering the way of the path: The Tao speaks of a wheel on a hub. The hub is emptiness. The rim is the path of the world which has us running in circles trying to find fulfillment and peace. The hub is the room within, empty, filled with the potential of twia. What does the rim offer? The Tao says: goodness, piety, cleverness, knowledge, patriotism, holiness, wisdom, morality, justice, industry, and profit. These ways of the world are not required on the way of the path. Why? They all sound good and satisfy our desires for goodness. However, they do not serve twia. They are desires of the world. They serve their purpose as products of separation, but they are non-existent in the reality of oneness. In the emptiness of the hub, twia has no need of these separations. Twia dwells in consciousness in the peace that is emptiness. Peace is the bridge between the rim and the hub. Peace can prevail in the world through the eyes and ears of twia. Hold peace of heart in all matters and the world will adjust itself to the thoughts of oneness that arise. Step off the rim that rolls through the dust of the world. Stay in the center of the wheel. Let go of what circles around you. Listen, watch, act; let all things take their course. Then be at peace. To hold peace of heart is to bring the world into the embrace of twia.
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I AM is the call of consciousness as all that it is, which is totality. How many ways can we try to name what cannot be fathomed or described? Consciousness helps by saying of itself, I AM. I AM that which I am in the oneness that is consciousness. This is twia, that which I am. I am the center of the I AM. I am discrete awareness that is consciousness. Consciousness is oneness. Oneness is whole and discrete. This is its paradox. It is a paradox in separation but not in truth. Its truth is unfathomable to the me of the body. But let us try. We might say that oneness is like water. Water is whole and discrete. A pool of infinite dimensions with no center or boundary is like oneness. Yet, the pool is composed of discrete molecules of water, each being the center of the pool. Twia is discrete like that. It is awareness that is consciousness. Consciousness is comprised of discrete awareness like our pool is comprised of molecules. Twia is discrete awareness that is the center of consciousness.
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Twia lights the darkness to manifest thought. This is the path I walk without a trace in the dust of the world. It is often said that all things happen in their own time. Patience allows for this. To truly walk the way of the path without raising dust is going to require patience and time on my part. The dust that arises for me is memory and desire. In these lie my joys, regrets, hopes, and promises. To calm the dust, I must let them go and tend to the moment. Part of the secret is to possess nothing while using what I have. This is the way of the path. Hold peace of heart in the moment. It helps in settling the dust. The hope I have rings as hollow as an empty barrel. What is hope but fear. To hope is to fear that desires will go unfulfilled. Drop desire. Drop hope. There is need for neither in twia. Twia knows the way. Act in the moment. It offers true fulfillment. Fear is a byproduct of separation, manufactured by the machinery of thought in body. Escape the body. Escape fear. I am not the me of the body. There is no Darrell except as a thought of separation. What is real is the one true inner self that is twia. To dwell in twia, release thoughts of separation, live in unity with all, be mindful in the moment, hold peace of heart always, and practice loving-kindness. Then fear is replaced by love. Twia is the whole of the all. There is no separation except in thought. To perceive the world as separation is the function of the me of the body. The function of twia is to see oneness in the world. True vision perceives unity in the world as the whole of the all that it is. See twia in all things. You are it. There is no other, no something else. All that you encounter is one. Consciousness is whole. It is oneness. In oneness are thoughts of separation which are not real, like thoughts of unicorns are not real. Yet, to know separation is to realize oneness. Consciousness, or that which is totality, is both one and separate. This is the nature of our existence in body. When it is not, it is emptiness that is nowhere. Then there is neither oneness nor separation. Both oneness and separation are perceptions of separation. Oneness and separation are both illusions of the me of the body in existence. There is neither oneness nor separation in reality. These are musings of the me of the body existing in separation. The whole thing seems nuts, yet it makes sense. I guess therein lies the paradox of the unfathomable.
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In death twia steps away from the body without lingering in remorse. There is no attachment in reality, for all is one. What seemed so real to the me of the body is but a whisper of thought that is separation. It is a dream ended by twia releasing the thought.
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The Tao suggests that the high ground is strategic, holding promise in battle. But the way of the path lies in the valley. In battle, there is victory and defeat. The valley nurtures all who walk its path. Those who are in the valley after battle are never again defeated, nor do they ever taste victory. The valley promises neither.