Many are willing to short-change themselves by believing that body is the prime material from which all else arises. From body an entire universe is born, the universe of you, the you-niverse.
In this view (and we must not forget, it is a view, not a fact), matter matters most.
From whence does matter come? What is the matter? Matter arises from mystery. The hand holding the scalpel slicing the brain is mystery slicing mystery.
Soul cannot be object-ified. Soul is the eternal subject. The soul I am is the sole "I Am."
Soul is entirely subjective, the primal realm upon which all objectivity is based. You may object but this is because you do not wish to be subject. This is the eternal rebellion.
We vacillate between the subjective and the nominative case. One way out we love to take is to say we are the verb, the vacillation itself. While this is true, and we can zip and zoom in our zen state, dropping all distinction, the question still remains, who or what is doing the zooming? Until and unless one knows (is) the answering of that question, the zooming is simply a fly ball about to land in one's fielding mitt.
When we know we are the mystery from which we spring, we are soul full. Whatever we make of that is our personal metaphysics, and we can and do make of it what we want.
Through our you-niverses, we are co-creators of the universe.
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A maze ing!
ReplyDeleteStan said...
ReplyDeleteA home run!
Bertrand Russell argued that the "I" of Descartes' cogito is merely a grammatical convenience, thus cautioning us against inferring the existence of an entity from an occurrence of a linguistic entity. Positing a "who" or a "what" from "I zip" or "I zoom" falls under his caveat.
ReplyDeleteYour statement that "Soul cannot be object-ified" quickly establishes a similar (though not a grammatically-rooted) cautionary point; yet, it's seemingly followed by entertaining an object taking an action, i.e., "who or what is doing the zooming?".
I sense, here, an inter-whirling of perspectives which (may) inevitably lead to paradoxical statements. "The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." We speak of the Tao, but are not speaking of the Tao. Even more puzzling to me is our awareness of 'Tao-ness.'
Mystery is.
--Gary
A really marvelous post, George. I've read it, like, six times now and it takes me deeper each time into the "eternal rebellion." I'll tell you what you've written: a damn koan!
ReplyDeleteAha!
Brilliant and de-Light-full! Thanks, as always, for your astute insights, George!
ReplyDeleteLove, Cathy : )
The soul I am is the sole "I Am." If that doesn't fill you with light, what will?
ReplyDeleteThanks, George!