Читать книгу A book in answers - Th. Om - Страница 29

How do I look at my body?

As a rule, their bodies are more than sacred to people. It is the instrument, that shows us to the outside world, it causes pain or pleasure - it shows what we think we are. He, the body, is us. Our life is based on his wishes. He is our home. He determines us with illness, health, and ultimately death. And we have secured this little spot well. We have erected a great fence, which is our body, defending our territory down to the knife.

What are we defending?

We are decided to go against the universe with this body. The slight ripple of the ocean decides it was the sea. The tiny ray of light imagines it is the sun. He feels alone, fears the sun and the sea, that might devour him. What a fearful belief! What is the body but? It is nothing if it is not moved by our spirit.

We limit ourselves?

The sea and the sun are unimpressed by the arrogance of the small movement on the water, the tiny ray of sunshine. The ocean waves on, the sun shines - a marginal fragment is only part of its whole - it would not be without them and they would not be without it. So we limit our mind with the body, limit our awareness to the poor senses, that the body seems to offer us.

The body is the imaginary limit?

Love itself is limited by the body. With the information, the body makes available, you are prevented from seeing the big, wonderful whole, that makes up life around this small, dreary, desert-like island of your body. The body is always limited to the form, everything it's able to recognize, is thing, is externals. You cannot imagine God without a body either.

Why doesn't the idea find me?

But how could enlightenment, God, the Holy Spirit - how could such a sublime idea - seek its abode in a perishable body? How could love, the divine idea, merge into a love, that is limited by the physical? As long as we do not dissolve this border, this fence, as long as we do not recognize our island, our body, for what it is, namely a body, that is nothing but body, does not make its own decisions - and does not represent an idea - the idea cannot find its way to us either.

Create a garden?

It is important to prepare a worthy place to stay for the idea of God. He cannot find his apartment within limits. And the body is nothing but, that limitation. It is the wall around a dust-grain-sized fragment of your mind, just a tiny particle, a ripple of water, a ray of sunshine - which denies the whole thing, believes it is alone. Lonely in a demarcated body, next to other demarcated bodies. This is the kingdom, the thought of the ego.

Does the ray of light exist without the sun?

The truth, however, is, you are not the particle, the fragment of the whole, that tiny part of your mind, which imagines, that it is body, sunbeam, its own universe, separate from others, which it cannot reach. Because just as the ray of light is part of the sun, without which the sun would not be, so too is your spirit part of the whole, without limits. Unlimited - just not the tiny patch of desert fenced in with barbed wire and mines, that you created.

How to make the desert fertile?

You are the ruler of this arid wasteland. Would you like to be the ray of sunshine, that doesn't exist without the sun, the movement of water, depending on the ocean? Your mind, your thinking, is innumerable times bigger. Because it is truly love, that surrounds you - outside of your little realm - and it finds its meaning in the dissolution of all boundaries. It knows no differences, is completely absorbed in the care, that it is.

Just the wish is enough?

So it is up to you to let them in, to tear down the barriers, to transform the barren ground into a blooming garden, in which you can invite other souls on your way to a rest, where love will also expand into infinity. Love extends to everything, that was created like it. How easy it is, it takes only a little will to let it in!

Surrounded by love

Whoever truly recognizes, that his small, desolate realm of the ego, which is always only related to the body, is surrounded by all-pervading, eternal and always only encompassing love in the sense of caring, who asks to recognize it - this wish is already there granted. And piece by piece the barren island is transformed into a splendid, evergreen garden, shimmering with wonderful colors, in which one likes to rest for a while.

Summary

No part of love invokes love in vain. To recognize, that the thoughts of the ego, which raise the body to ruler and idol, are only the reason why true love remains hidden from us, it only needs a little willing, called love. All doors to the breathtaking garden, which will soon expand into the eternal, are opened, are already open. One after the other visible to you. But you still cannot really, completely perceive the all-embracing love. Too much dust from your desert darkens your view.