Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseens. Why in this truth find sorrow? -- Chapter 2, verse 28, The Bhagavad Gita (Tr. Juan Mascaro)
Our physical sense-realm is a little blip in the infinite. If we do not trust the infinite from which we come, we cling to our physicality as we might cling to a floating toothpick, trusting it as a life raft in a vast boundless ocean.
We are the infinite embodying. We like our embodying, become attached to our sweet little selves, identify with our i.d., insist that our i.d. is who we are.
To no avail.
We are "seen between two unseens." Why do we find sorrow in this truth? Because we plant our flag in this world. You know the story. Attachment. To our stuff. To our relationships. To our distorted view of ourselves. But most of all and underlying all, to being seen.
Soon this droplet will return to the ocean, this scene will return to the un-scene. No need to make a scene about it.
Drop the scene-ario and open. The menu is not the food. The plot we have created is not the play.
Why in this truth find sorrow?
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Why indeed, my friend. Whether seen or unseen, there is no separation. Dropping the drama of the "seen" helps us remember our life as the "unseen", and how once we are t[H]ere, we are all one.
ReplyDeleteGeorge,
ReplyDeleteThis commentary is sweet. Thanks,
Reminds me of a wonderful quote from the movie Broken Trail:
ReplyDelete"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
--Gary