This post is an excerpt from a response to my email, written by Ken Matsushima, author of the 'Reverse Engineering the Human Soul' web site. Although his site is not yet ready for public viewing, I have been delighted to have a preview, and to find much in common with Ken. Ken Matsushima Incidentally ... GS: "The Void is not nothing, but is everything, undifferentiated. It is the Unmoved Mover and Creative Source. As the Unmoved Mover moves, stillness and motion are created. One cannot exist without the other. In this duality, the frequencies of motion become distorted, fragmented, partial and incomplete as they 'descend' into the third dimension of current human consciousness. The undifferentiated and the differentiated are oscillating so rapidly as to appear simultaneous." KM: I understand what you are saying. There is an old Hindu aphorism which expresses this in a very engaging metaphor (I discuss it in one of the ten "Core posts" on my site): The guru is telling his students about the supreme soul – the Atman – telling them “Atman and the individual Soul are one. Atman exists within every one of you.” One disciple stands up and says: “But Guru-ji... the Atman – God – is great and powerful. Infinite worlds exist within him. How can something that enormous and powerful exist within me?” Instead of an answer, the guru picks up a drinking bowl and hands it to the student. “Go get me a bowl of water from the Ganges river!” he orders. The student gets up and follows his instructions, coming back a while later with a bowl of water. The guru looks at it and frowns. In a voice of deep disappointment he says: “Why cant you follow simple instructions? I told you to get me water from the Ganges river. This isn’t water from the Ganges!” “Oh yes Guru-ji. I swear it . . .” says the student. “I got this water from the Ganges.” “But there are fish in the Ganges river. I dont see any fish here! There are children bathing in the Ganges, women washing clothes, and pilgrims performing ablutions. I don’t see any women or children or pilgrims in this water. There are cows and deer and buffalo wading in the muddy water along the banks. I don’t see any cows, deer or buffalo. There isn’t even very much mud! Go back and get me water from the GANGES!” “But Guru-ji,” the student pleads, “this bowl is far too small to contain any cows… or children… or even fish. It is just a tiny little bowl. I swear to you that this water comes from the Ganges; I just wasn’t able to bring any more water in this little bowl.” The Guru shakes his head in understanding and says: “OK, take the water and pour it back into the Ganges.” The disciple goes off and does as instructed. When he comes back the guru asks him: “Where is the water now?” “I took it back and poured it into the Ganges.” “Are there fish in that water, now?” “Why . . . . why Yes! . . . . yes there are.” “Are there women and children and pilgrims and cows in that water now?” “Yes Guru-ji. The water is part of the Ganges” “In the same way that Ganges-water forms the Ganges, consciousness forms the Atman. When you limit your consciousness to the human body, you are water in the bowl. When you let go of the limitations that make you human, you are water in the Ganges. But the water always remains the same.”
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