From the
standpoint of Zen, mind and universe are identical. Conscious
awareness is the source of what is being perceived through the
senses. A mirror
reflecting itself. The universe is the outward expression of our
own inner awareness. The universe of individual things we perceive
around us is an illusion. When we look out into space we are looking
inward at our own mind. The basis of Buddhism is that no individual
thing has any real existence apart from Mind. For this reason
it is said that all things are empty.
The world
reflects our collective level of conscious awareness. By altering
consciousness we can alter this world and visa versa. This is
what is happening to our world around us. Current Earth and Solar
Changes are in reality
changes within our psyche or mind itself. We are witnessing the
outward manifestation of collective inner changes within our own
minds or Mind.
A slow alteration
of consciousness has been going on for eons of time at a steady
pace but began to increase in the 20th century. The 1960s began
a period
of greatest intensification and has been continuing right up to
the present. The collective mind has now reached a point where
a major shift in awareness and physical reality is about to occur.
Zen Buddhism
refers to our current level of awareness as the realm of birth
and death. This is an amnesic existence in which we are continuously
reborn never remembering our previous existences. Each lifetime
a separate existence but connected unconsciously to the previous
lifetime. This is a form of immortality but leaves much to be
desired.
In the Bible
we read in Genesis that Adam was warned about forbidden knowledge
that would ultimately bring death. Adam and Eve disregarded this
warning. The result was the alteration of Human Consciousness
and a descent into an existence in the realm of birth and death.
Earth was altered even as consciousness was altered.
At the same
time a divine plan or evolutionary process was begun that would
eventually elevate mankind back to the original condition. In
Zen this is called "The Original Mind". It's discovery
is called Enlightenment. In the Bible it is refereed to as Eternal
Life. It is the altering of Human Consciousness and a release
from this dark realm that has for so long imprisoned us. A return
to the realm of Eternal Life. A return to the Original Mind.
This process
has been accumulative since time immoral. It has finally reached
a pivotal point in which a sudden shift is eminent owing to this
accumulation.
The last straw so to speak. A sudden leap from this world to the
next while still incarnate. Not death but transformation. In the
Bible it is referred to as Transfiguration or Ascention. By these
Earthly changes we may measure the degree of change within ourselves.
The altering of conscious awareness.
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