"The world and life are one,” he says. “I am my world. (The microcosm)”--esoteric? Are you joking? This statement is total reality. Each of us views the world from inside the self and there can only be one world and the life inside that self.
I was expecting to read some mind-shattering revelation and, instead, he said this. It's true; there's nothing wrong with it. What a zen slap! Nothing especially mystical about it. It's just a fact. An OK fact. Why would anybody freak out about it? Subjectivity is a known fact.
I would prefer to expand that to the whole universe is ultimately one.
There is nothing that can be truly said of any mystical experience that I have ever had; and that is the only truth that I know.
"The world and life are one,” he says. “I am my world. (The microcosm)”--esoteric? Are you joking? This statement is total reality. Each of us views the world from inside the self and there can only be one world and the life inside that self.
I was expecting to read some mind-shattering revelation and, instead, he said this. It's true; there's nothing wrong with it. What a zen slap! Nothing especially mystical about it. It's just a fact. An OK fact. Why would anybody freak out about it? Subjectivity is a known fact.
I would prefer to expand that to the whole universe is ultimately one.