Matthew 27:54 · World English Bible
Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
Sometimes it takes an upheaval, an earthquake in the world of form, to break the trance of ordinary seeing. The ground shakes, the familiar structures fall, and the mind grows quiet because it has nothing left to hold onto.
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EGO & BEING
Sometimes it takes an upheaval, an earthquake in the world of form, to break the trance of ordinary seeing. The ground shakes, the familiar structures fall, and the mind grows quiet because it has nothing left to hold onto. In that opening, what was always present becomes visible.
The soldiers had watched a man die, seeing only the surface. But when their world was shaken, they felt the presence they had overlooked and knew it as something sacred. Awe is what remains when the thinking mind falls silent, and in that silence you recognize the deeper reality that was there all along.
Ego v. Being lens
What have you been walking past every day without really seeing it?
Zen describes the moment a sudden sound breaks the chatter and everything stands there plain and astonishing. The ordinary was always like this, the mind was just too busy to see.
The Tao Te Ching opens by saying the real thing cannot be said, and the naming is where we lose it. When the labels fall quiet, what is actually here comes forward.
The text says the real cannot be reached by speech or thought, and that words turn back from it. What is left when the mind stops reaching is awe.
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Ego v. Being