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The Body of God
And you.
“If we want the world to change, it has to start inside the human soul.”
— Michael Meade
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It’s interesting that Western science is an outward search in form for the inner black hole. It is only when the outer is metaphor for the inner, that the outer and inner are the same search for the One that has no second….
The black hole is Zero. Western exploration is outward and positive, a path of attainment. Buddha/yoga exploration is inward and negative, a path of letting go. “Coming and going, we never leave home (the black hole of zero)”
Keeping with the metaphor you are a black hole, empty of form, and you can only infer your True self by the movement of no self around it. “True self is no self.” (Zen) True self is empty of form, so the only way to know one’s true self is through inference or metaphor. The knower cannot know itself, because to know anything you have to be outside of it…outside of the black hole.
So Zen says form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Each of us is the Black Hole of pure knowing, around which the known orbits, all form metaphorically pointing to the black hole that is neither within or without.
From the beginning, all beings are Buddha (or the Black Hole of Knowing)
