When I first awaken, I am in the diaphanous, transparent, or celestial mode. I have not yet formed into and as this physicality. In this mode of light and open consciousness, I comprehend more deeply and more fully the nature and origin of this universe and life. It is a gnosis, a knowing. The soul that I am smiles in loving appreciation.
It is at this time that I can read the writings of the true philosophers, the mystics of intellect and comprehensive awareness, with their meanings reverberating through my soul. I listen with a deep ear. I hear. I see. I join in.
As the earth night moves toward dawn, I am born more fully into my body, this body, the one typing. I settle into, center in. I smile with its familiarity, its weight, its aches, its promise as a sturdy embodying for active practice of the gnosis, the knowing. Legs on the angel, so to speak.
As the body gets more tired toward mid-afternoon, the celestial mode tends to fade yet not disappear. Physical fatigue and cosmic consciousness seem to have an inverse correlation. It is at this time I practice patience with myself. I smile as I remember that it is hard embodying as a human. I breathe and ask for help and move on.
There are times when I understand completely... and others when I am dumbfounded...
ReplyDeleteDumbfounded by the "Simple Complexities" of this form we call "Human"
Day after day We "settle" in for the ride to see where we can go... Ain't it Grand!
spiritual practice
ReplyDeletepracticing every moment of every hour of every day.
practice, as it becomes 1st / 2nd nature.
practice so often, it is no longer practice or discipline.
it becomes natural because it is natural.
I find myself practicing to grow old. Yet within this practice remains a being which is ageless.
ReplyDeletei'm reverberating with the power of your images:"legs on the angel" in a sense they seem ball-and-chain-ness but they are the roots that ground you and the conduits for this earthy chi that helps you rise up. "i listen with a deep ear" i can see the well of wisdom that lies deep and clear and sweet within you. and i'm so thankful. this one is beautiful, george. i'm moved to create. :)~apl
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ReplyDeleteI get the image of what I might call a circascion rhythm cycle, i.e., a circling around one's knowing, experiencing the penumbric effects of this body.
You said, "Physical fatigue and cosmic consciousness seem to have an inverse correlation." Dr. Franklin Merrell-Wolff asserted that "Substantiality is inversely proportional to ponderability." Interesting...
Anonymous said, "practice so often, it is no longer practice or discipline." In this practice, do we surrender to falling into the fiery gnosis we orbit, to be emptied and consumed within that burning alchemical cauldron? Who will roll away the stone?
--Gary
I deeply appreciate this description, George. Thank you.
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