In the old analogy of mistakenly seeing a snake in a rope that is coiled up in a corner of a room in low light, there IS something there in the corner. Seeing the object in the corner IS NOT pure illusion. There is a rope there that we are mistaking for a snake. The rope is not real as a snake, but it IS real as a rope. The phenomenal world is also real in a certain sense. It is simply not what most people imagine it to be. Either you only see a world full of separate names and forms that exists as millions of discreet entities or you see Being itself, manifesting or appearing as all these names and forms, yet you see that ground of being in them all and so realize that they are actually all one reality at their core. They are all actually God. It would be quite obvious in which way you are seeing the world. Both ways of seeing are unmistakable. When you look in the corner of the room, you either see a snake or a rope. If your way of seeing is the second way (a rope), you are self-realized. If your way of seeing is the first (a snake) , you are still mistakenly seeing a snake in the rope and it is necessary that you take a closer look and investigate the situation further till you see what is really there...
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:50 +0000
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