Wahe Guru, i.e. God, Creator, the One; lit., remover, dispeller of spiritual darkness, ignorance, illusion, delusion
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I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one - as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. ... I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
*Gospel of John 17.21-23 (NLT)
Only, why can't I see past [the] illusion [of separation]? From time to time, in my Zen practice, I have had glimpses beyond it - clear and unambiguous peeks into a kind of existence in which I am both one small part and the entire thing. Yet I keep getting drawn back into what I know for certain to be a kind of twisted hallucination — the hallucination of being a thing apart from the rest of creation. Why?
*Brad Warner. The Other Side of Nothing.
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The Sun turns the tendrils towards its Light, kissing them with Love.
Your eyes turn my Heart to Your Heart, and we become one, My Friend.
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We become one with the Friend, for we are one with the Friend. The illusion is separation; the reality is One.
The experience of oneness is in the domain of becoming. This experience arises from being, while experience points back to the non-experience. So, to become that we are, we actualize that we are.
Spirituality is a means to discover this love-oneness in this human body in time-and-space . We realize what already was, yet we were walking around asleep - and the idea of oneness is not the realization of oneness. Waking up is waking up to what is right here, for it cannot be anywhere else.
When Jesus says, in the Gospel of John 10.30 (AV, etc.), "I and the Father are one," he does not say, "I alone am one with the Father." Jesus' oneness with that he called "Father" remains an invitation for us to enjoy the same oneness, to enter it.
To enjoy the oneness, we first know it viscerally. We wake up from the fantasy of being merely a person among other persons, an individual among other individuals. The Light dissolves the thick fog of being a somebody or something: we are neither.
So, being one with Spirit means we humans are a whole, are each other without losing distinction. We are distinct, but we are not separate. I is We, We is I.
Oneness is only known from the heart. We cannot think ourselves to oneness. We cannot will ourselves to it. We can position ourselves to receive it - to receive ourselves. To receive God is to receive yourself; to receive yourself, is to receive everyone and everything.
When under the spell of separation, we live as a part - apart - and suffer thereby. Love is actualized from the Whole to the Whole. The sparks of the Fire share the Fire, for they are the nature of the Fire - Fire with Fire. How could it not be? ... Love.
*Use of photography is allowed accompanied by credit given to Brian K. Wilcox and title and place of photographs.
*Brian's book, An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major online booksellers or the publisher AuthorHouse.
