Could the perfect state happen in the mere closing of the eyes and being still?
“The ideal of perfection seems to abide in God rather than in the utopia pure land society.”
The above was part of a script that had been posted in the chat by a friend during the Global Meeting for Worship.
Most often when I read something of length there will be a word, a sentence or phrase that stays with me. There was something about this phrase that spoke to me.
Each morning upon waking I make a coffee and then sit in a particular chair for around 20 minutes allowing myself time to awake. During these times I may read a passage and contemplate it. Today in the 20 minutes I was observing the ‘thought traffic’ that was coming. I say traffic for that is how it seemed, cars coming from nowhere and everywhere as if I was a kind of thought roundabout. I guess that is exactly what I am amongst other things, ‘A thought roundabout’.
I was wondering where do all these thoughts come? They are like water on a fall. None of them is mine so how do some of them become mine? Because I chose them like clothes from a shop.
There’s a thought….. we can choose what thoughts we apply to ourselves or not!
I guess the same can be said of emotions. A variety may present themselves but will I chose any of them or will I remain naked in the experience?
Back to the quote would I choose something from it even if it was speaking to me?
It did seem to give me an insight that I hadn't seen before. Often I imagine a heavenly state like the paradise often depicted in Jehovah Witness material like the Pure Land utopia mentioned in the quote, a society operating in perfection. Yet the quote made me rethink could the ‘perfect state’ be what I am in right now? Right now being in silence with others. I had been wondering why do we do this? I think I do this because in doing it I experience unity. A nothingness and in the nothingness, there is a stillness, a togetherness, an oneness with all things.
So perhaps I will no longer seek the heavenly state in the form of a perfect society but rather be still and know that I am God.
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