Experiencing Life and Expressing it

HUMAN BIRTH IS PRECIOUS, they say.

Life is remarkable and superior (if at all) to other creatures only because humans get to experience life and can express it.

And that to me sums up all *purposes* associated with a life.

However, both these aspects of life - experience and expression - are powerful volatile forces.

Journey towards Nirvana then is to minimise on this volatility by expanding experiences and restricting expressions. And also restricting experience and expanding expressions.

Certain environments call for a balance between experience and expressions with no particular emphasis on either expansion or restriction. Whereas some conditions call for a suppression of both these aspects of life.

All major spiritual traditions, ancient or modern, subscribe to one or more of these tenets.

A Random Atom

IF I WANT TO be a part of Anima Mundi, all I have to do is "to be".

For its everywhere, all the time.
In other words: Here and Now.

I am but a link in this multi dimensional chain.
Like a strand of grass standing in the wind, swaying with the wave one way or another.
Dancing at the ripples.
The chain is infinite.

I am but just one among many many – a random atom – among billions of galaxies with their infinitude of Stars and Solar systems.
In all directions and dimensions.

The wave originates from somewhere – here, there, perhaps at the centre of the Universe.
Or perhaps my this immediate mind role-playing Anima Mundi at that temporal point in time. Here at this micro moment, gone the very next.

The wave is the carrier of the "cause"; sometimes the wave is the "cause", to which the mind and body reacts.
As it passes through the complex maze of this chain, each of its links react to it.
As it comes, I either accept the wave or reject it – the dual states of being.

The "time" then is the "speed" at which the cause travels.

A choice is given to the link. To react in tandem or oppose the wave. The simplest decisions that fill our minutes, hours, days and life.

Liberation lies in choicelessness.

Singularity.

React, not relate. Neither oppose, not reject. Just be. Let it be.

The whole Universe becomes I. The chain is I.
The link is here, now.
The link before was this past second, or the last hour, or yesterday, my childhood, the birth before.
The link after is tomorrow, the next fall, the next relationship, the next Armageddon, the next Nirvana.


What matters is this very link – this instance – this precise tiny state of being: Not the one before; neither the one after.

At this very instance, I have arrived in the future as it were yesterday, and which would be past the very next instance. I be in all the three states thus.

The Random Atom faces duality. Yet again.

Liberation lies in choicelessness.

The centre of Anima Mundi is choiceless.
Formless. Flawless. Wordless.

The future is born there. I can see it. As I close my eyes. Flames. For the Link before and after are in my dreams. Imaginations. Perceptions. Expectations. Reflections.

And as I create it, the Random Atom reflects that centre.

That is I:
- A Random Atom.

That is you, too.