Saturday, July 7, 2012

constantly emanating whole


Higgs-Boson in theory
Deep meditators, along with anyone who has experienced a spontaneous awakening to spiritual understanding, know thought is rooted in a boundless infinity of consciousness. The mind only really functions as a bundle of superimposed subtle energy interactions that effectively fizzle out (the true meaning of the term Nirvana) when that greater reality emerges. Then, all oppositions are effectively annihilated, and every longed-for goal of common, conflicted life is realised in its totality. Love is unconditional and free, requiring no object to attach to and bargain with, peace is all-absorbing, knowledge is total, with nothing further to discover, and harmony complete. It is known in traditional practice as the unmanifest spirit, the root and cause of the manifest energised world, which itself is seen as its apparel, inseparable from and entirely bound up with it. This manifest aspect is, in its primal essence, a subtle emanation that has the inherent quality of contraction. Contraction makes the world of form. 

The movement is understood as inward over the basis. Beginning as a barely discernable vibration then increasing in intensity until reaching a state of maximum density, a process that is ongoing and always-arising - the primal subtle emanation continuing even as the maximum point of density is reached. This creates a core tension that leads to the fusion that modern secular science seems to detect something of in its evidence of an original Big Bang moment. Dense energy disperses, radiates back outwards as particles, not into a theoretical void, but into the already-existing and always-arising energy field, with its constant contraction. This inward contraction and outward dispersal creates the balanced tension that gives rise to forms, to atoms, molecules and so on. All of it occurring within the immaterial consciousness. 

Higgs-Boson revealed 
Only the internal instruments of the senses are capable of studying this, and a long history of exploration and testing results is available in the various yogic and meditative traditions (if the effort is made to read beyond the cultural colouring to get to the essence). What all of them agree is that once the ground of being is reached by direct experience, it is possible to understand how the individualised mind and body is formed as a uniquely configured part of a vast interrelated whole. It is made up of the most minute particles of energy coalescing around the essential core tension and forming into every seen and unseen object in existence. This is how the world works. Each part of the whole is governed in its activity, in its behaviour, by its place in the constantly emanating whole - the environment of the cosmos - from infinite space right down to the individualised body. 

The knowledge that awareness, or pure consciousness, is the unitive underpinning of the mind and body (subtle and gross aspects of an individualised coalescion of particles) allows us to negotiate life with an equanimity not available to the currents of mind caught up in the general collective energies of society. It allows, for instance, a delight in the general excitement of a scientific discovery like the supposed Higgs-Boson particle, but also a recognition that what has been detected is unlikely to be placed in any context that can accurately discern its true nature. 

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