We mistakenly believe each of ourselves a separate source, when in fact we share a Source in common. And so the deep, sad irony of war or any conflict among ourselves is that it amounts to self-flagellation, nature's last desperate gasp in driving us toward revelation. However, there exists an easier, softer way for those with ears to hear:
"...impersonal, universal mind or consciousness is our true nature, our only nature, all, absolutely all, that we are, and it is completely devoid of I-ness...devoid of any objective quality, and so cannot be visualized, conceptualized, or in any way referred to...the unmanifested source of manifestation...antecedent to subject and object...To profoundly understand this is Awakening to what is called "enlightenment."
Now this is about where most of us are likely to stop, fat and happy with enlightenment, but Wei Wu Wei knows better and continues stripping away every last vestige of conceptualization:
"All objectivization is conceptual, all conceptuality is inference, and all inference is as empty of truth as a vacuum is empty of air. Moreover, there is no truth, never has been and never could be; there is no thusness, suchness, is-ness, nor anything positive or negative whatever. There is just absence of the cognizable, which is absolute presence of the unthinkable and the unknowable--which neither is nor is not. Inferentially this is said to be an immense and radiant splendor untrammeled by notions of time and space, and utterly beyond the dim, reflected sentience of temporal and finite imagination." - WWW
And that, beautiful dreamer, is That. The operative word is "utterly." It's all downhill from there.
"...impersonal, universal mind or consciousness is our true nature, our only nature, all, absolutely all, that we are, and it is completely devoid of I-ness...devoid of any objective quality, and so cannot be visualized, conceptualized, or in any way referred to...the unmanifested source of manifestation...antecedent to subject and object...To profoundly understand this is Awakening to what is called "enlightenment."
Now this is about where most of us are likely to stop, fat and happy with enlightenment, but Wei Wu Wei knows better and continues stripping away every last vestige of conceptualization:
"All objectivization is conceptual, all conceptuality is inference, and all inference is as empty of truth as a vacuum is empty of air. Moreover, there is no truth, never has been and never could be; there is no thusness, suchness, is-ness, nor anything positive or negative whatever. There is just absence of the cognizable, which is absolute presence of the unthinkable and the unknowable--which neither is nor is not. Inferentially this is said to be an immense and radiant splendor untrammeled by notions of time and space, and utterly beyond the dim, reflected sentience of temporal and finite imagination." - WWW
And that, beautiful dreamer, is That. The operative word is "utterly." It's all downhill from there.
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