Short story: The koan of oneness
@innertalks (21024)
Australia
October 12, 2021 11:27pm CST
The Zen master, Devoisa Zerplonksla, asked his students to answer this koan, for him.
"Every path leads us towards oneness, but where does oneness itself lead us too?"
Nobody could come up with an answer, and so the master smiled and offered his own answer to his students, as follows:
"The knowingness of God enters you when you enter oneness, and so oneness points you to God, as God is oneness, but oneness is not God, until you join with oneness in God too."
"We speak of oneness, without knowing it, until oneness knows us, and then we know oneness."
"The spark cannot live on its own, separated away from the fire. We need to stay with the fire, and let it burn away our ideas of oneness, so that then only oneness itself remains."
"Remain in oneness, awake to its truths, within God. Love connects you to all, including to oneness."
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Do not let your mind blanket you under its ideas, too comfortably asleep, to know God.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
13 Oct 21
One, the presence of One the absence of two. One, the easy answer to how do you spell love in binary code? (10001 etc) one is the thing we fear and eventually one becomes the love we find.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
13 Oct 21
Poetically put, Scott.
Why do we need to try to find oneness, though, when it has already found us. We can't leave oneness, to be alone, unless we are living from a creative delusionary stance built up in our minds, by our minds.
God is all, and all is God.
This great oneness is all that exists, but when you do not love, but sit on the border of yourself, waiting to be pushed into love, you simply ignore oneness, and your connection to it, for an illusionary stance instead, standing on your own head, rather than resting truly within your own oneness, as it rests in the overall oneness of God.
@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
13 Oct 21
The Advaita philosophy points out to oneness and that our higher or true self is identical to that of our creator. When we rise in awareness through intense application and penance we can align with that concept.
We have an inner awareness that points and guides us to reinforce this concept. We need borderless love reflecting that of our creator to nudge us to oneness. That will lead us to heaven on earth in terms of peace and upliftment of our lifestyle away from mindless pursuits that lead us around in circles and at each others' throats.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
13 Oct 21
If this was so, and if we all do have such a higher self, identical to God, what is the point of us having this outer veneer, that stops us from being always this higher self, because of the problems of living that we face here, instead?
If we have such an outer self, and an inner self too, would it also mean that God must have some type of an outer self too?
Perhaps, all of us, his creation, are God's outer self, that his inner self is also trying to contact to, and bring back into line too, with his inner self.
Life/everything is all about God's inner self and outer self, sorting out their differences/disconnections, the same as we do then.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
14 Oct 21
@Shiva49 Well, God might not like to be punched higher also.
At least, we are just punching him in the kneecaps for now, or some of us are just his ankle-biters....lol...but to punch him higher up, God might not appreciate that much at all.
@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
16 Oct 21
@innertalks Punching God is never on - we end up just flailing our arms and soon facing the reality of that exercise in futility.
The evolution need not end with us - more to come - a humbling thought though but a needed reality check!
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