"Perspectives on Perspective": Part 3 – Breathing and living within the new air
Liberation is awareness of this continuum of micro/macro identities, perspectives and understandings beyond your own. This requires mindfulness, but also knowledge gained through the experience of observing reality and the patterns within it. Ironically, you have to condition your mind in a new way in order to un-condition the old one. This is the work. The only difference is that this new conditioning allows the possibility for further self-critical conditioning.
You begin to create a momentum that pushes you upstream through the resistance of the functional collective consciousness. The more you understand these bubbles of consciousness, and the more familiar you become with your own patterns, the more you can walk ‘Inbetween’ the bubbles and become conscious of their source. The collective consciousness of the planet is observable only from this place and this is where an someone of awakened consciousness walks. Rather than remaining stuck within the particular frame of consciousness that their current mood, situation and life-cycle dictates, they become fluidic to the movements of the micro/macro ocean of the cosmos.
On one level, you are the summation of the micro bodily turbulence that your particular biochemistry creates in reaction to its external environment. Become fluidic and let it move within you.
On another level, you are nothing but a speck of dust within a larger cosmic ocean. Let yourself move within it, and let it move you.
The more impartial you can become to you own life the more fluidic you can become. Your structure becomes the movement of the structure you are a part of as opposed to the structuralisation of the ego. The ego always breaks. It has no choice.
So let it.
You can intellectualise and philosophise until you and those that have to listen are blue in the face. But until you step down from the thrown of your ego you will never truly see anything the way it really is.
Between the structure of the atomic nucleus and the electron cloud surrounding it there is huge space. Between the cell and organ there is huge space. Between the structure of individual human bodies, there is space, and there is space between the larger societies of our planet. Between our planet and the solar system, there is again huge space. Constantly, the continuum of the cosmos is patterned in repetitions of structure that gives way to a more macro space.
The universe is fundamentally empty, yet there is structure within it.
Look for the space in everything, nothing is as it seems.
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