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arising falling
October 2007 
arising + falling
Posted on Apr 19th, 2006
by 
Karuna
Karuna
Page one of The Essential Ken WIlber starts like this:
"As Plotinus knew: Let the world be quiet. Let the heavens and the earth and the seas be still. Let the world be waiting. Let the self-contraction relax into the empty ground of its own awareness, and let it there quietly die. See how Spirit pours through each and every opening in the turmoil, and bestows new splendor on the setting Sun and its glorious Earth and all its radiant inhabitants. See the Kosmos dance in Emptiness..."
A few lines later, Wilber goes on, repeating:
"Indeed, indeed: let the self-contraction relax into the empty ground of its own awareness, and let it there quietly die. See the Kosmos arise in its place, dancing madly and divine, self luminous and self-liberating, intoxicated by a Light that never dawns nor ceases. See the worlds arise and fall, never caught in time or turmoil, transparent images shimmering in the radiant Abyss..."
I want to be quiet..
I want to be still.
I want to be waiting.
I am quiet. I am still.
I wait.
I allow self-contraction
to relax
into the empty ground
of its own awareness.
There, it quietly dies.
I see how Spirit
pours through
each and every opening
in the turmoil,
and bestows new splendor...
All self-contraction relaxes
into the empty ground
of its own awareness.
I let it there quietly die.
I see the Kosmos
arise in its place,
dancing madly and divine,
self-luminous and self-liberating,
intoxicated by a Light
that never dawns nor ceases.
I see the worlds arise and fall,
never caught in time or turmoil,
transparent images
shimmering
in the radiant
Abyss.
I want to be still.
I want to be waiting.
I am quiet. I am still.
I wait.
I allow self-contraction
to relax
into the empty ground
of its own awareness.
There, it quietly dies.
I see how Spirit
pours through
each and every opening
in the turmoil,
and bestows new splendor...
All self-contraction relaxes
into the empty ground
of its own awareness.
I let it there quietly die.
I see the Kosmos
arise in its place,
dancing madly and divine,
self-luminous and self-liberating,
intoxicated by a Light
that never dawns nor ceases.
I see the worlds arise and fall,
never caught in time or turmoil,
transparent images
shimmering
in the radiant
Abyss.
Until firmly established in the state beyond all duality,
this serves as a practice of remembrance.
Remembrance and practice, moment to moment.
And it helps when I remember to breathe.
In the arising and falling of the breath...
Arising, I breathe in,
Falling, I breathe out.
And with each arising and falling,
I smile.
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