It Takes Two

 

“Duality, is always secretly unity.” ~ Alan Watts

Watts has successfully taught me to believe that the interconnectedness of everything is what makes everything so. A Stick cannot lean on its own. There must be something for it to lean upon. The Chinese symbol for man is two sticks leaning on each other. It is ironic that my father-in-law nicknamed my wife, Stick. I sometimes feel I must lean on her, but I fail to see that she also leans on me.

The intervals of reality are not endings or beginnings; they are all there to hold the holes together. The universe is mostly dark matter, held together by dark energy. The implications of this awareness is that the holes in a net mean more than the cords and intervals we sense in physical ways.

As Watts says, you cannot have just mountains; there must be some fundamental earth underneath. And this is the same for every detail in the universe; no detail is what it is without the works. That includes yourself.

The German word heil and health mean the same thing and holy comes from this same Old English word and it means: “That which must remain intact.”

For something to be holy no-thing is required, for holiness is what is fundamentally there. As soon as anyone or anything appears, their appearance can only be apparent in contrast to what does not appear.

We see the net of reality. Being an interval, we sense ourselves in the interval we refer to as me. However, that sensation depends entirely on there being that which is not me. I sometimes imagine myself as a soluble jewel; loosely stitched into a soluble interval on a soluble net, but a deeper, more reasonable and far more serious look reveals the net and the jewel are not who I Am.

If this is true, then what is the jewel? It is experience.

The I Am is a perfectly still and cloudless Universe, out of which expressions occur as a way of having experience and me is one of those.

Who I Am is Who I Am eternally.

My fingers are of the notion that their existence ends where the hand begins. From where I observe my fingers, I see their interdependence on my hands. In the exact same way, from where I Am, I see my interdependence on everyone and everything else.

The dark energy and the dark matter of the universe is a story of the holes. What we see, hear, taste smell and touch makes up the net; but the net would not be a net without the holes. We are one net, interconnected to the whole experience at once and you are an interval on that net; a perfect jewel. However, there is no net and there are no jewels if there are no holes. What we can sense is what holds reality together; what we cannot sense is all that lies behind reality; the holes; That is why we call it Holy.