A
few days ago, I mentioned a creation myth based on meditation
experience. Here, the Great Beyond - whom we call "God" - was just about
to "speak" a divine love-word. However, before he could utter that
word - or even think it - he lost himself in ecstatic bliss, emptying
himself out into the vast expanses of the universe as a sky-like
universal awareness or ground of being. We discover his ecstatic
presence in wilderness spaces and in the vastness of our own meditative
awareness. However, even though his word was never spoken - SURPRISE ! -
every species, individual and landscape feature somehow has managed to
appear - through the processes of biological, geological, cultural and
spiritual evolution - as though out of nowhere, as an echo of that
never-spoken word! The amazing thing is this: even though that word is
singular, all things echo it in their own unique and varied way. It is
as though the word returns to the Creator in a billion different echoes,
each of which has new words added on - words which he never even
thought to speak - each one in a DIFFERENT VOICE! As Meister Eckhart
exclaimed: "God spoke one thing, and I heard TWO!" And, we might add,
three and four and a hundred and a million and ten billion! Indeed, we
could even say that the purpose of creation is to bring this kind of
surprise alive within each of us - in our own unique experiences of awe
and wonder - which then transfer to the inner life of the One who
dwells within us
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