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Sunday, July 27, 2008

How To Make Eternity Descend Within?

By CJ: Desert Prince

The inconceivable power of vastness. It annihilates whatsoever it touches - unlike that of the Midas’ touch but no less magical. It annihilates completely your concepts, your belief systems, your sense of the self. It disrobes you utterly..

ONE VERY interesting description I have come across of the concept of infinity is that even a monster number with, say, a zillion zeroes after it, is exactly as far away from infinity as the puny number ’1’. Another way to comprehend this is to consider the conceptual opposite of infinity – the zero. Now, the most basic definition of zero is ’nothing as opposed to something’. To have something – no matter how much of it – is always the same distance away from nothing. Thus a grain of rice or a trillion tonnes of it are both examples of something, as opposed to nothing. Opposites don’t have varying distances between them; they are always equally apart.

The infinite, in fact, is like the transcendent, beyond the understanding of the mind. "Infinity, that damnedest thing, is beautiful!" as Jed McKenna, the author of Spiritual Enlightenment, puts it. ‘Image’, from where imagination comes, when put against infinity, dissolves into nothingness; thingness simply evaporates into thin air. That is why I so love the inconceivable power of vastness because whatsoever it touches - unlike that of the Midas’ touch but no less magical - it annihilates. It annihilates completely – all your concepts, all your belief systems, all your sense of the self – it disrobes you utterly. And that’s why it’s so frightening.

No teacher, teaching, book or volumes of philosophical learning could ever be as effective as simply allowing the thought of infinity to slowly and slowly devour you. Like infinity, transcendence also devours. It devours not only beliefs about size as in what is very big or very small, but also erodes away ideas of very good and very bad, what’s true and what’s not, happiness or sorrow, heaven or hell, higher consciousness or heathen, light or dark, life and death, being and nothingness.

All our thinking is linear, in terms of the finite; to go beyond circle of thought is to transcend time. Stilling the mind to a point where no thoughts arise is to come to timelessness. You contain eternity within you.

Erosion is always an enlightening process.

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