imagemarie wrote:Thank-you tilt. Here's a very recent example...
"This sense of myself, gathered as a formation - the belief that I am centred in the world and all the observation and data is coming in this way, is because I am formed to believe that. And when we start looking at what it is that is formed, we start having questions about that belief.
And as we become more transparent, we feel to a greater extent, some sense of the sacred. It becomes accessible.
When we are very well formed, very defined, very reactive, very certain of everything through our opinions and knowledge, there isn't much room for the sacred to enter, because there's only room for the forms of life to be there. So we kind of exclude it, or crowd it out, because of the certainty we have in form.
So when we develop less certainty within that form, we are seeing through some of the hardness of our definitions and we have access...the light that comes through is the sacred..the quality of sacredness"
Poetry..metaphor.. Perhaps ultimately it doesn't matter which words are used to name an un-nameable..I don't know
And thank you. it makes sense to me, the use of the word "sacred" in this context. It is, I would say, referring to a shift in perception from that which is cluttered with contracted sense of "I want" or "I do not want" to the feeling tone that comes with the letting go of that via insight. It is like being in an overly warm, crowed, noisy, smoky, loud, brightly lit room and then stepping out into a cool, quiet night lit by the full moon in a great expansive sky.
I like the word sacred in this context, but it is a "religious" word, which I guess be a little disconcerting for the more secular sorts, so it just becomes more stuff to watch.
