I love the question as to what comes up for me as I contemplate the ability to waft through different identities. What comes up for me is that we are separate and we are one, individual and together, not one and not two but one and two and neither one nor two. I resonate to those statements and they go beyond my comprehension. They reveal the mystery that we are and that we live in. Yes, I am I, apparently separate from you, couched in my skin, with my heart pumping my blood and not yours, and yet I know that at a deep level I and you are one, are different expressions of one spirit. The cells in my feet are different from the cells in my brain and at the same time are cells sharing the same spirit and consciousness and are part of one body. I and the other individuals have different superficial identities that are different expressions of one Ground. In this awareness, I leave cramped, uncomfortable quarters and live more expansively. Articles like this one by Pavithra Mehta and reflecting and meditating on this mystery inspire me to go beyond small identities. A friend of mine died of cancer and another friend commented that he got cancer for all of us -- comments like that are gifts that inspire me to go beyond small identities to the oneness that we are.
On May 16, 2015 david doane wrote :
I love the question as to what comes up for me as I contemplate the ability to waft through different identities. What comes up for me is that we are separate and we are one, individual and together, not one and not two but one and two and neither one nor two. I resonate to those statements and they go beyond my comprehension. They reveal the mystery that we are and that we live in. Yes, I am I, apparently separate from you, couched in my skin, with my heart pumping my blood and not yours, and yet I know that at a deep level I and you are one, are different expressions of one spirit. The cells in my feet are different from the cells in my brain and at the same time are cells sharing the same spirit and consciousness and are part of one body. I and the other individuals have different superficial identities that are different expressions of one Ground. In this awareness, I leave cramped, uncomfortable quarters and live more expansively. Articles like this one by Pavithra Mehta and reflecting and meditating on this mystery inspire me to go beyond small identities. A friend of mine died of cancer and another friend commented that he got cancer for all of us -- comments like that are gifts that inspire me to go beyond small identities to the oneness that we are.