My Personal Experience
This morning I decided to go to KFC for breakfast … it’s the closest I get to the taste of western food. After breakfast, decided to go for a walk on the beach … the KFC is a few hundred metres from the beach(the ocean).
During the past few years I have come to enjoy walking barefoot along the beach … reminds me of the poem “Footprints in the Sand”. Perhaps it’s one of the unknown reasons I’m living in this particular village. I didn’t choose to live here … I piggy backed a whim my wife had about five years ago.
Yesterday I watched two middle aged village men working their small plot of land in their bare feet. Perhaps there is something mysterious about our feet making contact with the ground … opening a conduit for bidirectional energy flow. The invention of footwear disturbed/disrupted the frequent occurence of this natural phenomenon. Apparently there are antidepressant microbes in the soil. gardeningknowhow.com/garden … s-soil.htm
Back to my walk along the beach … the tide was almost completely in … the water was unexpectedly comfortable … got wet up to about my knees. Several times I looked behind me and watched the incoming wave wash my footprints away … leaving no physical evidence that I had been there … in that particular spot. The residue of me … left in my footprint … didn’t disappear … it was simply swallowed up by this yuge body of water known as the ocean.
Reflected on the notion that the water I was walking in is connected to all the oceans of the planet … several different names … one yuge ocean. The essence of this yuge body of water touched me … the physical me. The essence of me touched this yuge body of water. What mystery this seemingly insignificant event holds within the bosom of this yuge body of water.
“on discussing God and religion”
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Dipping our feet in a local ocean is a larger event than most people who do it realize. IOW … how many people reflect on the fact that they are making a personal connection with the ‘one’ ocean on the planet. Ditto for religion … when one makes a contact with any particular religion … a sincere contact … one is making contact with the ‘ONE’ … the somethang all religions have in common. The planet’s oceans have several different names … each name referring to a specific geography. Likewise with religion(s) … the different names simply reflect different geographies/cultures.
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This morning the local ocean swallowed the footprints my walking along the beach left behind … my footprints may have vanished from physical sight … yet the residue of me left in the footprint didn’t vanish … simply traveled out of sight. Likewise with life … our physical bodies vanish with decomposition or fire … yet our essence … the ‘footprint’ of our essence … remains a part of the planet and by extension a part of the universe.
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This morning the physical me made a connection with the yuge body of water on the planet … I cannot know the ‘totality’ of the significance of this event. Likewise … when one makes a connection with God … in however trivial a way … one cannot know the ‘totality’ of the event.