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"I am an infant born anew-- a child. My eyes are filled with wonder
and bliss. An infinite expanse of possibilities is before me and I
have not the benefit of experience to prepare me for what I am about
to partake."
There is an existential freedom, a life in accord, it is easily
attainable to anyone given the mental discipline-- connecting the
world within to the world external-- realizing there is no "in here"
and "out there", that the separation itself is an illusion. It is
fascinating as this understanding precedes awareness of self
(consciousness); a simple recognition of the world as it truly exists,
and from that recognition there is a realization of all things
beautifully connected.
There is no path to lead to truth, be it profound truth or trivial,
there are no limits and as such there can be no path.
As a stone tumbles down a mountainside it lands in its inevitable
resting place at the bottom-- looking back, it may say "there was the
path", but such a thing is inconsequential. There are many paths
infinitely conceivable and infinitely plausible. Where you are is
where you are, and there is no one path that brought you there.
You traverse the infinitely conceivable paths towards the inevitable
moment that you are now. There you are, and if you look back you may
see where you were-- but do not see one path, look to see the truth,
see the infinitely conceivable paths you have traversed.
If this seems odd, then look forward. Obvious are the infinitely
conceivable paths in front of you, where did the path from the past
go? Does the past path perpetually stop in the present? Look and see
for yourself, there is an infinity all around, all the time, equally
conceivable towards the past as towards the future.
Traverse Board-since ships rarely traveled in a straight line, early navigators need to know how often they veered off line and for how long. The Traverse board was used to calculate the number, direction and distance of the ship's zigs and zags.