LAW OF THREE (31) Love, a Non Dualistic Experience

LAW OF THREE (31)

LOVE,  A NON DUALISTIC EXPERIENCE.

"In phenomenological terms, love is a non dualistic experience. This is the reason why its is only with great difficulty that love enters into any "understanding". Love is neither equality nor otherness, neither one nor two. Love requires differentiation without separation; it is "going" toward "the other" that rebounds in a genuine "entering" into oneself by accepting the other within one's bosom." Raimon Panikkar

Love is the ultimate reconciling force; it differentiates the lover and the beloved enabling them to arise above themselves and abide in each other in a triadic self.  Lover and beloved are inter-biding ; the sufferings and joys interpenetrate each other.

Each of the three forces in a triad can only be understood in relation to the other two.   Father-mother and son-daughter are mutually necessary independent forces in the triad of procreation.  The father-mother finds meaning and identity in the experience of "the relationship" with the son-daughter and the son-daughter finds meaning in the experience of the relationship with father-mother.

Father-mother-son are three poles of a same reality which manifests in their common heart feeling as a result of being in a relationship.

WE ARE BOTH IN CHRIST

The same Spirit and dispositions that are in Christ are present in us, inspiring us with the same willingness to open ourselves to everybody's sufferings, in so far as we capable of bearing them. Moreover we are not just individuals. We are individual and social in our very being. We cannot be individuals without being totally united with everybody else, and we cannot be united with everybody else without being an individual member of the mystical body of Christ.  T. Keating.

LAW OF THREE (30) Beyond the Dualism of God and Me

LAW OF THREE (30)

BEYOND THE DUALISM OF GOD AND ME

1 "Our faculties can only comprehend the things of God, like the beauty of creation, the goodness of the attraction we feel for others, or the glimpses of truth we experience in religious images and concepts. All these things may reflect or represent God to us, but they miss the essence of God. To our normal human capacities God is nada, no-thing." Gerald G. May M.D.

2 "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." 1 John Ch4 V12

3 "We just do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. At worst we give lip service to God's presence, but then feel and act as if we were completely on our own."  TERESA OF AVILA.

4."As soon as we use the label "God" or "divine presence", we make an object of it, separate from ourselves. Taken together, these reasons encourage us to dwell in the more comfortable, controllable world of "God and me" (duality) rather that the vague, vulnerable realm of "God in me and I in God" (non dual)" Gerald G. May

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LAW OF THREE (29) Time-Space-Eternity

LAW OF THREE (29)

TIME-SPACE-ETERNITY (1)

"Discover that all that exists is this moment. Life is always now. Your whole life unfolds in this constant now. Even past and future events exist only when you remember or anticipate them. And you can only do so by thinking about them in this only moment that exits... (now) Mistaking the present moment with its contents gives birth not only to the illusion of time, but also to the illusion the ego"

Eckhart Tolle

Time-space-eternity are the three conditions of existence. We perceive them as the changing, the unchanging and the reconciling dimensions in oneself.

We experience the nature of time by the movements of thinking. When we cannot become aware of the dimension of space in our lives,  we are engulfed by thoughts and do not notice the space in which the film of our imaginary life is projected  (we are unaware of the underlying presence of the unchanging.)

The awareness of the ever present space gives depth to the witnessing observer. Our sense of identity changes. We may perceive space in its spontaneous arising, between one desire and the next; when one desire has been satisfied and the next one has not yet appeared. But the brief interval is insufficient to realise or notice the inner significance of the experience.

The perception of eternity is the perception of presence.  It is the I AM,  ever present in the absence of the ego. 

"Life is real only then, when I am" G. I. Gurdjieff

LAW OF THREE (27) Noticing or transcending duality

LAW OF THREE (27)

Noticing or transcending duality.

"Being open. Everything is available, and waiting for us. We are bathed in cosmic radiations, all help. But we have to make ourselves open. Open our pores. Catch everything. What prevent us from being open, and receiving what is going, is being preoccupied with ourselves, thinking of ourselves. If we forget ourselves, everything comes to us." Rodney Collin.

CHOICE

Choice depends on the information available at the moment we make a decision.  We have available information stored in our minds and laptops but there are sources of information entering the present moment coming from a different source (or dimension) This information enters our awareness in the form of sudden noticing.   Noticing adds a new dimension to our experience.

Noticing requires an open and receptive attention.  It suddenly enters our awareness like the instantaneous illumination of a dark room after pressing of the electric switch,  It may manifest in the suddenly noticing the colour of the dish we are eating; or in the sudden noticing of the set of keys we have been looking for a week, or we may sudden realisation that the flowers in the garden are actually talking to us.

Noticing is given.  It is not something that we can do.  But in noticing our attention has to be free to receive *  Ir breaks the duality we are locked into by bringing space and colour into our daily lives.  

"Noticing enters our lives from another dimension or another world. It is one of the simplest ways that influences from a higher world come into this world." J.G. Bennett

It is only when we notice (3rd. force) that we have the possibility of choosing and changing the course of our lives.

" You could not stay awake with me for just one hour, could you?" Mat. 26:40

LAW OF THREE (26) Birth-Life-Death

LAW OF THREE (26) Birth-Life-Death

"Understanding is not the product of one function in man, but the resultant of several functions working in harmony. For example, if one appreciates something with the mind, one "knows" it; if one appreciates it with the emotions, one "feels"it; if one appreciates it with the external physical organs, one "senses" it. But if one simultaneously appreciates it with the mind, emotions and physical senses, then one understands it." Rodney Collin

Understanding needs discernment of the three active forces of a triad.  We can easily discern the forces of Birth and Death.  This two forces support each other but at the same time cancel each other.  However the "unperishable"force of life relates and eternally reconciles them both.

Birth-Death are perceived in time.   Time moves always in the same direction We perceive Birth and Death in the world of the ever-changing, referred to as the world of the transient and the perishing.  Life is the persistent unchanging (and ever active) nature of reality not perceivable from a dual perception.

"He who sees the changing in the unhanging and the unchanging in the changing knows no sorrow."  

Upanishads.

The life cycle, in the Hindu trinity or trimurti,  Brahma is the force of the creator, Vishnu as the preserver or reconciling force, and Shiva the destroyer or the eternally perishing. They represent the three independent but mutually necessary deities in the unity of Brahman.

LAW OF THREE (25) Intelligence (2) The Transmission of Consciousness.

LAW OF THREE (25)

INTELLIGENCE (2)

"To those who only know it outwardly, Christianity seems desperately intricate. In reality...it contains an extremely simple and astonishingly bold solution of the world.  In the centre, so glaring

as to be disconcerting, is the uncompromising affirmation of a personal God: God as providence, directing the universe with loving, watchful care; and God the revealer, communicating himself to man on the level of and through the ways of INTELLIGENCE" Teilhard de Chardin.

I read that a Leopard in central India avoided a big catastrophe by climbing a ladder. Villagers came to the rescue of a leopard which fell into a deep well - by throwing a ladder.  The big cat with great difficulty climbed the ladder to safety.

How could one explain this event without the action of the triadic nature of intelligence? In this simple example,  intelligence manifested simultaneously in the intelligence of the animal, the intelligence of man, and the reconciling power of the Intelligence present in the reconciling ladder.

"God communicates himself to man at each level of development through the ways of intelligence"Teilhard of Chardin

"The intelligence behind the known universe informs its evolutionary processes with coherence, consciousness and unity."

Ervin Lazlo

LAW OF THREE (24) Intelligence

LAW OF TREE (24)

INTELLIGENCE

"Intelligence communicates instantaneously with intelligence, wherever and in whatever it acts. This is so between people, between a musician and his instrument, between persona and an idea. We can understand the world because it has intelligence. The true scientist listens to the intelligence of Nature in a form of dialogue." Anthony Blake

Intelligence manifests threefold.  Intelligence asks questions, answers questions and reconciles the questions and the answers. If we can have a conversation, it is by virtue of the presence of Intelligence in each of us as well as in between us.   It is by virtue of the presence of Intelligence that we can have a conversation with God or Nature.

In the trinitarian christian formula, we pray to the Father in the name of the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps it would be equally right to say I pray to the Father in the name of the Son by the power of Intelligence?

Intelligence plays three roles simultaneously. Intelligence recognises and respects the denying force as an indispensable dimension of itself. It plays the active force as the desire to know.  And in allows the arising of meaning to reconcile the meaningless and the contradictory.

Intelligence grows through understanding.  When the intelligence of the head, heart, body see as a single "I". understanding arises to becomes an instrument of the will. (4th force)

Suffering is an inevitable factor in existing and being alive; and the failure to understand suffering is one of the major signs of the lack of intelligence in our world today. A.Blake.