We Are Between Stories

Ubuntu philosophy is correct –African Philosophy..   Indigenous

I live in Australia and we have a motto song that we sing;

“I am, you are, we are Australian”.. ...  

It’s exactly in the way of ‘world'  It’s an recent song not old at all, but it’s just so correct, for we ‘all are’  It doesn’t matter who you are, what  color, what nationality, what gender, what age or denomination, when we are here, being and working together we are ONE...

When I was learning and working through the Chakras, and the mirror works and inner child work, it is very common to be in the “I am because you are” state..

When one says NAMASTE = means the recognition of one's existence by other person.

Please correct my English interpretations if I am wrong, but on the basis of my learning,

Namaste means, "I salute or recognize your presence or existence in society and universe,

And OR, My higher self, greats your higher self...     What a great way to greet someone instead of ‘Hey’ :-) 

Hmm – We are Between Stories - How do you relate to the old and new story? Interesting....

Hmm –Do we relate at all? Or are we just passing through it, and once we have passed through it, thats when we ‘realise‘what has happened?

I’m thinking that’s exactly when our reality occurs, so, at that moment of understanding to ‘relate’ on any level or any situation, is when awareness occurs, and that’s when  we know and we can comment, or act on any given situation, or event – All-be-it of past actions!!!  And that’s how we relate with words and divisions - Possibly?  Otherwise, we would have affirmative actions in the ‘moment’ creating ‘Bliss’ with ‘Now’ knowledge...  Anyway, we all pass through the moment of old to new, like water passing through our fingers,

So, time is the ‘evolution’ and that is the ‘reality’ we know!!!  By the time we actually realise what has happened, the moment has gone....  So, is new ‘Science’ just a replacement for old Religion? that makes us feel connected from an old dogma 'to' a possibly new code of belief?  Who knows, we have to be ‘aware’ in the ‘moment’ to realise and relate!

Thanks for the thought.

E

Conrad wrote: "Zen …insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem, and of course, this means that there is no solution either.”

      “…A solution to the great problem of life, is not solving it all: the not solving is really the solving. The wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.  The wisdom that Faust comes to in the end, Zen starts with it... When an ordinary person becomes enlightened, he or she is a sage. When a sage becomes enlightened, he or she is an ordinary person.” Reducing desire and being in the present more often are great  for me."

Thank you! These are "words to the wise" and "words from the wise" and I can understand and take this to heart. Gracias!

"The winds of grace blow all the time; all we need do is set our sails."

Thanks for the opportunity to respond. Evolution is accelerating, especially the Lamarckian type. We are evolving into noticing, not that we have found a new home, but rather, we are now noticing that we never left the home of non-duality. In addition, Shunryu Suzuki said, we are not two and not one. As David Loy said, we are nondual yet duality can be a subset of non-duality. That's something like saying that the way that can be said is not the way.

Former University of Michigan philosopher, Abraham Kaplan, helps clarify the difficult to understand when he said about Zen: “Not rejecting one metaphysics, set of thought, or theology in favor of another.  It is a whole metaphysico–theological enterprise that is being repudiated.  So far as concerns the actual living of our lives there is little to choose among the various constructions.  They are all metaphors, as it were, and while a change of metaphor may satisfy the critics, it will never lift us from literature into life.  We become so accustomed to particular conventions of civilization that we forgot altogether that we are dealing with symbols and mistake convention for nature itself.”

      …“We cannot escape the confrontation of our own natural self.  We cannot help trying to find meaning in life….  We cannot hide from ourselves. So instead of telling us what the problem is, Zen …insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem, and of course, this means that there is no solution either.”

      “…A solution to the great problem of life, is not solving it all: the not solving is really the solving. The wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.  The wisdom that Faust comes to in the end, Zen starts with it... When an ordinary person becomes enlightened, he or she is a sage. When a sage becomes enlightened, he or she is an ordinary person.” Reducing desire and being in the present more often are great  for me.