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Beliefs divide us; truth unites us, but not a version of truth, rather the experience of the Truth. And we can no more give the experience of this Truth to anyone than Kakua could to the emperor and his Japanese subjects or to those who sought him out in China. Yet, that we are all in Life means Life is always present to us. Life includes all in Life.
Likewise, to know the Truth is to enter into Truth knowing Itself through you and me. The wholly communion is wholly for this self-recognition of the Totality in the particularity of meeting.
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We each have our own experience of the Real, and the awakening to the clarity can happen through something as seemingly insignificant as one note of a flute. When one is present to a part of Life, one is present to Life. We can never know how the heart might be opened by the Truth to Truth.
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To live intimately with reality, this entails full devotion to that intimacy. This devotion means cultivating daily and a lifetime friendship with the Truth. To have times of closeness with Life, of clear seeing, is one thing, to live intimately with Life another. Yet, as Kakua shows us, we do not have to have some amazing experience - call it spiritual, religious, transpersonal, or mystical -; rather, we are clear in one moment to that of Life present, not attempting to see through our ideas of what is or should be or must be, but seeing what is, so seeing Life.
when the Truth lives
within us
then we see the Truth
everywhere
when you
know yourself
you
know everyone
for
it is only
in communion
that we know
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(C) Brian K. Wilcox, 2020
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