2/ Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, he gave them this answer, “The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation and there will be no one to say, ‘Look here! Look there!’ For, you must know, the kingdom of God is among you.” (Lk. 17:20-21)
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“The ‘hidden treasure’ is concealed behind the very veil that reveals, and reveals by the very veil that conceals. Another way of putting this is to say God is the inward, without being inside of anything. This is not in the sense we are accustomed to thinking of something as inward as opposed to being outward. God is the most hidden, but not hidden in something else, something other than itself. God is veiled, but in plain view. All is Sirr ‘ul-’asrar, secret of secrets.” Q. 57:3 “He is…the Outward and the Inward.” “Tagatha directed Shariputra to put a question to Avalokiteshvara. Shariputra accordingly asked Avalokiteshvara how the perfection of wisdom should be practiced. The pith of his answer? Hear, O Shariputra, form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form, emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form, the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness.”
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“The pure consciousness…does not look at things and does not ignore, annihilate, or negate them. It accepts them fully, in complete oneness with them. It looks “out of them” as though fulfilling the role of consciousness not for itself only but for them also…Any moment you can break through to the underlying unity which is God’s gift in Christ. Openness is all.” Thomas Merton “Depth happens when the spectacle looks back at the spectator.” Roland Barthes Meditation occurs whenever our innermost awareness is trained upon the shocking nearness yet elusive distance of what is present…It is a kind of fundamental astonishment or perplexity reflecting that which simultaneously shows itself and withdraws. Stephen Batchelor Who could have seen Him? For that oneness is exclusive. Had He any two-ness, He’d not be so elusive. Asad Allah Khan Ghalib
@RizomaSchool @mrfewcr Likewise, Jung: “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.” And Richo: “The goal of an evolved consciousness is to take its projections back.”
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