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UNIVERSE (Cont'd)
The Universe expresses itself through continually changing forms. The environment we experience is merely the physical manifestation of that which we call the universe. Our interaction with the environment (i.e. with the universe) is an educational process and the educational process essentially involves communication. Our minds must flow into and marry with the nature of the world in order to bring forth knowledge and understanding of the universe.
For example, light, through its property of illumination in the universe, touches all aspects of our being, revealing itself in each encounter. A compilation of those meetings can lead to understanding the nature of the universe. Thus, the outer light of nature converses with the inner light of the mind producing an awareness of oneness. Acts of knowing require our involvement; participation is essential. If we don't reach out and touch the universe through sight, hearing, touching, experiencing, we blind ourselves to the possibility of ever knowing enough to adequately define what we mean when referring to the universe.
THE MOMENT POINT
The Thin Veil
I sit here in my rocker in the quiet of the early morning with my thoughts wondering where to start this essay on understanding the universe. Then from somewhere the thought occurs to me to start at the beginning. But where is the beginning? Where is the starting point? We experience a world that seems to be ever changing and so complex in detail that it defies knowing. How can we know what it is all is about when it won't stand still long enough for us to come to know its essence.
Then it occurs to me that the starting point must be a place from which everything we experience comes from and returns to. A place within our experience that is constant, never changing, eternal in its nature, and always seems to be there while everything else seems to come and go. The only thing that seems to be with me constantly in my experience is the moment, the everlasting now.
The starting point to understanding, then, must be the moment. Things come into existence from somewhere, exist for a fleeting moment, then disappear, but the moment is still there even though the forms have come and gone. The instant we experience something, that something ceases to exist. We experience our whole lives in the moment even though our bodies constantly change and ultimately disappear from the eternal now by deteriorating into death and disintegrating into other forms. But our knowing, our awareness, only exists in the eternal, never ending moment. Our consciousness seems only to exist in the present; not in the future nor in the past but in the present moment. Knowing or self awareness seems to be something without material form but somehow comes out of the experience with, or interaction of, material forms.
The moment, then, must be the point of creation. But what is the size or dimension of the moment? How long does it last or exist? The moment doesn't seem to exist in time as we know and come to experience time. Since it interfaces between future and past, it occurs only as a an infinite, timeless point or thin veil. It's that thin membrane between the future and the past. It's the forever now. The moment is infinite in nature--it's forever there in our experience but doesn't exist in time at all. Time seems to pass through it as changing forms, as activity. The moment itself doesn't seem to change, only the forms that pass through. The moment has no beginning or end--it's eternal.
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