![]() ![]() To the ordinary state of mind these forms veil the nature of Being, because we experience them as objects. The particulars of how the world appears turn out to be nonmental forms, luminous designs inseparable from the total freshness and clarity of Being. Being unveiled nonconceptual clarity as the truth of the world, in which the world is nothing but the nonmental concepts as and through which Being manifests. What was revealed next was the nature of the world as beyond the mind. The revelations continued, with increasing subtlety. At the same time it became clear this presence is both fullness and emptiness. It divulged the nature of these differentiations as concepts within its spaciousness. The manifestation of Being went further, unveiling its body as pure and undifferentiated presence, in which the particulars of the world are seen to be simply differentiations of this supreme presence, unfolding in beautiful patterns. ![]() Love was revealed as the authentic body of the universe. The logos is the Word of Being, the speech by which Being becomes a speaker, and by which the manifest world comes into being.Īt the beginning of a year of breathtaking revelations, Being disclosed the underlying nature of the world as love. It is the word of the divine being through which all comes into being. ![]() We can understand here why the logos can be referred to as the Word. In other words, the logos is a word that contains all words. The logos does not utter the word-concepts in succession, it utters them all at once, simultaneously, as if it is uttering one word. The presence of the logos is then a unified field of words, spoken all at once, for creation is of the world as a whole, instantaneously and continuously. However, the manifest world is one indivisible field of dynamic presence, and not disconnected forms and objects. It utters the words and is the totality of all the words. More accurately, since the manifest world is also the logos, for it is the logos’s unfolding particulars, and the world is composed of word-concepts, the logos is composed of word-concepts. True nature does not leave any place or any thing outside of itself. Being absolutely pervasive means that true nature pervades all particulars absolutely, consuming them completely-without exception and without leaving anything behind. One major way it is different is that it is a particular that is an absolutely pervasive particular. That is to say, it is different from the other particulars that we experience, and it is important to recognize this difference True nature is a particular, and it is a particular that is different from all other particulars. The same holds true for true nature: Regardless of how formless or indefinable it is, it is particular among particulars. Any particular form, any particular event, any particular experience is completely itself and also a complete expression of reality. One of the things that we learn in the fourth turning of the teaching wheel is the importance of particulars. Our understanding needs to be informed by everything we have known as well as what is unfolding now. What is true nature and how does it live? We need to explore these questions experientially, directly, and immediately by looking at the trajectory and development of all our spiritual experiences and awakenings and also at our particular experience in the moment. In this book, we are studying true nature in an in-depth way. ![]()
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