Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Consciousness

Remember Heraclitus' dictum: "One can never step into the same stream twice. All is change, transformation. The only constant is flux." Yet note that these are pronouncements of and by a human brain, complete with consciousness. Indeed, we should rather say: One can never step outside of consciousness; it is primordial, uncreated and supremely constitutive of All, yet unaffected throughout by All. So...we don't step into any stream...we step into consciousness, yet never were we separate from it.

If you can't understand this, or don't believe it, no matter. You do the work of Consciousness anyway.

(As the Mullah Nasreddin sat on the riverbank, someone shouted to him from the other bank, "Hey! How do I get across?" and the Mullah shouted back "You ARE across!")

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