Post by XANTO on Jun 14, 2011 18:27:31 GMT
Do you feel that the universe is breathing? I do. I feel it quite strongly. Whenever I sit and meditate, I close my eyes and breathe as slowly, deeply and gently as I possibly can. As I do this, I get a unique feeling that my breath is synchronising itself with a Greater Breath. I recognise this Breath as a breath that is all-pervading. As this Breath exhales (so to speak), worlds, objects and beings become manifest. Then as this Breath inhales, all worlds, all objects and all beings become unmanifest. Each differentiated unit is reabsorbed into the One noumenal where everything is merely a single homogeneous essence. During the exhalation of the Great Breath, there is motion. As a result of this motion, there is activity, for activity is a function of motion. Moons rotate, planets revolve, atoms spin and galaxies are pushed further and further away from each other. On both a microscopic scale and a macroscopic scale, there is motion. In fact, not only is there motion; there is incessant motion. In every infinitesimal moment of time, there is motion. But there is ONLY motion throughout this universe because the Great Breath has acted upon it. Every moon orbits every planet in its designated orbit, every planet orbits every star in its designated orbit and every star orbits every galactic core in its designated orbit. However, this movement is only possible because there is a Cosmic Breath that is causing anything and everything to move. Yet the absoluteness of motion must be counteracted by the absoluteness of motionlessness, just as night follows day. Just as the Earth has its own day and its own night, so too does the entire universe have its own day and its own night. Even our own physical human bodies have their own days and their own nights. As long as there is breath flowing through our bodies, we are experiencing the day of our body. When this life-sustaining breath escapes your body, you enter the sleepless night of your body. During this period, your body experiences perfect rest even though it does not sleep. After this period has come to a close and your body has dissolved, the atoms that comprised your body disperse until such time that they unite once more to form a new combination of matter for a new soul to express itself in. Once this occurs, that soul experiences a new day within a new body (for all bodies are combinations of matter, both matter and energy are inseparable and the soul itself is pure energy). Thus the cycle continues. In this sense, nothing is 'lost': not even a single atom is destroyed. Nothing can truly be destroyed, for atoms can only be reduced to pure energy and energy was never created (and thus it can never be destroyed). There is no destruction; only transition followed by transformation. Activity must follow inactivity, for the two are one. Every inhalation of the Great Breath is followed by an exhalation. There was never any moment when this breathing cycle began nor shall there be any moment when this breathing cycle ends. It shall repeat itself forevermore! As the Great Breath inhales, everything is drawn into it. Time becomes frozen and hence all motion ceases. All combinations of matter experience a deep slumber during the night of the universe. After this period of cosmic rest is complete, the Great Breath exhales and, as a result, the unmanifested becomes manifested once more. Every combination of matter reawakens from its peaceful sleep and moves to form new combinations of matter. In this way, the machinery of the universe is eternally perpetuated and the old dies to allow the new to be born!
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