What’s in a word? Why does it still surprise me to find myself waking with a “word” resonating through me such that I must explore its origin and/or deeper meaning?
Recall, “In the Beginning was the Word” from the [experience] “The Dream that changed my life” [Blogged 2018] and/or the “Lychegate” experience [I think also blogged with the recollections of this earlier piece] where the deeper meaning that lays at the source of the ‘word’ (in this case Humility) and the experience (of shame at exposure of failure) opened one in the most unexpected of circumstances, and the point I am making is underscored, highlighted, even “writ large IN BOLD,” as it were.
And yet, still, it does surprise. Of course, this is only as it should/ must be, given that these are all ‘doorways’ to another realm, one where the everyday and the familiar drop away to reveal something different, something – not just new – but ever new/ever re-newing.
So, why should one not be surprised, for it is in this way that life, our very beings, are constantly being[s] renewed if we are but ‘awake’ to it. There is a connection waiting to be made here. Somehow, we come to understand that what we do in Truth resonates such as to open a door – that door – whereby the ultimately Real (what has been called the “what-is-ness” of things) becomes translucent, shining Its light onto (or rather in-to) our lives, our beings. It is this illumined state that then acts like a two-way mirror into life itself, in-forming and (all the while) transforming such that these small ‘awakenings’ become less like windows, and more like portals or doorways to another way of being, of living.
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Recently I have been exploring two ‘words’ which have been presented in one way/form or another: Truth and Relativity.
Actually, although not the “words” I was presenting myself with, both have been of long-term interest to me. Truth, I have held for a very long time, was not, nor ever could be, “relative”. This was implied in the recent struggle enacted in my conscious deliberations over a word that came up speaking about the three strands of consciousness which required uniting. The ‘word’ co-inhere* wouldn’t be silenced though, no matter, when [further] investigation spoke of ‘it’ in-tandem with co-exist. Somehow, this wasn’t right – at least in my mind at that time – yet a more recent dream/experience looking at Native vs Non-Native [e.g. removing everything that doesn’t belong – dig it out**] where it became clear, not as an idea, not as an intellectual knowing, but absolutely, as a living, breathing, moving, experience of seeing directly that everything was exactly as it should be – nothing “didn’t belong” – only us and our judgements made from our incomplete awareness (where we decide what fits and what doesn’t).***
Truth thereby was/is “what is” at every moment, everywhere, with nothing out-of-place, because everything is in process, where nothing but change is, and ‘it’ re-emerges again, and again, and again, at every moment. At every moment a new creation. Always fitting, never missing. Across the entire Universe, never out-of-place.
These “windows” into Reality are also portals, or doorways (potentially) in which/through which “we” step, at one moment looking in, at another looking out, and it is in this way that [that ubiquitous thing that Idris spoke of to Ibn Arabi as] “error” becomes the driver of/behind this movement of change, for only that which isn’t stands between this world and that being known, experienced, as One (which it truly/in Truth) Is.
* (see: Blogged piece on “Tracks in a Pathless land”: “Life is a journey: Explorations into Insight 2”)
**(see: Blogged pieces on ibid: “Truth and Relativity: Explorations into Insight 3”; “Life is a journey: Explorations into Insight 1”)
*** (Recall the story of Moses and Khidr here from the Quran where Moses failed to comply with the one criteria that was asked of him by Khidr prior to setting out to travel with this “ever Verdant One”; no matter what he saw, it was, “Ask no questions”!).
Tracks in a Pathless Land 