Teachings (#203)
Some common themes applied from spiritual writings:
There is one reality. Nothing exists apart from it. It has no name except the many that we give it. Let us call it consciousness and think of it as an endless void or emptiness. It is potential for all things, or the whole of the all. Our world is manifested in this potential (literally as the Big Bang and the ensuing universe). This world is but a thought of separation in consciousness. That which I am, twia, is the expressing of separation, much like dancing is the expressing of the thought of dance. Twia was before the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Twia is consciousness expressing.
Consciousness cannot be seen or heard. The me of the body does not perceive it. The body sees and hears separation only. It does not have eyes to see nor ears to hear oneness. The thought of separation in consciousness brings about the world we see in body. Separation cannot leave oneness and is not real. It exists in consciousness as illusion. It is illusion because it seems to change. Consciousness, or reality, is without change, being that it is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Nothing can come and go in reality, therefore the world that is constantly changing in form is illusion of separation which cannot be made real. It exists in reality much like unicorns exist in the minds of children. Children embrace the unicorns but there are no unicorns to embrace the children, except as fantasies.
Consciousness is the silent embrace of existence. It is the emptiness that is the potential of all. It never changes. It is unmovable. It is everything that is real. It is the whole of the all that exists. That which I am is whole, complete, perfect, eternal in consciousness.
Existence lies in consciousness as thought of separation that cannot be real because it is transitory. Reality has no beginning or end. I know this through that which I am. In twia lies wisdom and knowledge not understood by the me of the body. The body is filled with consciousness and can know oneness in the world through twia.
Consciousness is like a pool of intelligence with awareness. It has no form, dimensions, or structure. It is emptiness that is nowhere. It is the potential of the whole of the all. Undivided, it is everything. It cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Our senses do not detect it, yet it embraces us. We rest in consciousness as the manifestation of thought of separation in oneness. The beginning and the end come and go eternally, but separation never leaves consciousness, nor does it add to it.
Consciousness abides – period! It is permanent without beginning or end. It cannot be added to or subtracted from because there is nothing that is not consciousness. Consciousness is reality. I know this as twia. Neither consciousness nor twia can be described. Words fail, but they are what we have. Words pile up around me in trying. They do not capture even the essence of such mysteries. I know them in the silence. The room within is without the strain of words trying the impossible. There I find that words give hope of knowing when none are needed. The mysteries are known without words. Be absorbed by the presence that is twia and you will know oneness in the world. Consciousness abides everywhere in all things.
In oneness there are no separations. And in complete oneness there is no oneness, only consciousness, which does not exist. It is reality that cannot be described (yet we try). Oneness is totality. Consciousness is totality. It is oneness, which cannot exist without thought of separation. Water cannot be wet without thought of dryness. Without dryness, there is no wetness. Without separation, there is no oneness. From consciousness comes the thought of separation, which offers up oneness, which manifests the whole of the all. This is totality.