What separates ocean from sky? One is just a shift in kind and frequency of atomic compounds from the other. From a great distance the shift is imperceptible - the two are one. It takes you to create ocean and sky and all they hold, your senses, your mind, your conditioning, all that you have been taught, all that you have deduced, your experiences and beliefs. You are the key ingredient that cooks up this world. Without you it's all just primal soup. This is what is pointed towards in the zen koan: "swallow the pacific ocean in a single gulp!" The moment you realize that "skin" is just an arbitrary and oh-so-transient designation, the Pacific just pours right in. But this is not just an intellectual dalliance. It is cracking open the jug of Ganges water at the bottom of the Ganges. You are the Ganges, the Pacific and the sky that holds them, all of this and infinitely more, right now.
Ignorance is living in a world that is just a gigantic inference of billions of misguided egos.
The higher you raise and maintain the spiritual temperature, the faster the melting.
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