Looking back at the last post there were quite a few "Me's" and "My's" and even one or two "I's." That's so easy to do when writing and even talking. We love to talk about ourselves don't we. Well, anyway, it seems as though I do.
It's so easy to get carried away with the first-person pronoun as though it is the most important subject in a conversation. We tend to think that people want to hear about us. In reality people don't want to hear all that much about us. They would rather hear about them and how much we like them and care about them.
While carrying on a conversation with someone, if you tell them they look nice today they would probably feel pretty good. And then they might even return the compliment.
The whole idea of enlightenment is to realize that we are all in this thing called life together. The universe, the cosmos, the All or whatever you want to call it. It is so vast and may even be infinite. It extends into us, through us, and beyond us. It is what brings us all together into one unlimited field. It is impossible to give it a name because it is beyond our understanding and even our imagination.
Oneness is like a body made up of trillions and trillions of cells. Each cell has its own function, identity, and purpose but yet it could not survive outside the body because it needs the energy, nourishment and connectedness to other cells in order to fulfill the healthy function of the whole body. So it is with humans and other beings. We are not the function of one body but all bodies, all beings everywhere.
- to be continued -
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