Holy Omniscience, Holy Transparency – Point 5
Multiplicity out of Unity, including me – I am part of the whole
In our last posts we introduced Holy Unity – All is One. Yet, when we look around, we don’t see One thing, we see many. Holy Omniscience, at Point 5, recognizes the many. The meaning of omniscience is “all-knowing” or “all-seeing.” What can we see or know about all things? That they are each part of the whole and they each appear on their own. Again, every Wave is discrete and distinct while also being completely made up of and part of the Ocean.
From the Tao Te Ching (Verse 42):
The Tao gives birth to the One
One gives birth to Two
Two gives birth to Three
Three gives birth to the ten thousand things
The ten thousand things means everything, all we can see and not see, every experience and state, every aspect of our lives. All of this is continually arising out of the Whole, ongoing creation, the creative expression of the universe. All together while also distinct. It’s a lot to grok!
In the phrase “All is One,” the focus of Holy Unity is the “One.” Holy Omniscience is recognition of the “All.” Every single thing arises from Unity, Ocean becoming Waves. This is the incredible multiplicity that we experience. The vast variety of things, experiences, feelings, thoughts – really every single thing we experience (and even those that we personally don’t) in the immediate present and in the course of our entire existence.
Holy Omniscience points to the truth of this manifestation, supports and validates the reality of the world around us. With one caveat that we usually miss. Yes, there is manifestation of discrete things and experiences. However, none of these things exist on their own, none are separate from each other and the Whole. This truth validates our experience of the Waves, while keeping us connected to the fact that they are fundamentally Ocean.
Holy Transparency is a second truth connected with Point 5. It addresses a problem that can arise. Sometimes we see that everything else is part of the whole but leave ourselves out! But we are also “transparent” to the ten thousand things. “Transparent” points to an inherent openness, to the fact of the boundaries and edges of “me” not being so fixed or rigid. This sense of being solid and separate, is it accurate? At times I feel most real when my sense of solidity is less strong. Where I end and the world begins becomes less certain. Yet I feel something akin to a homecoming, a welcoming. Perhaps there are no boundaries at all. I arise when and as the ten thousand things arise. I come into being as all of the rest comes into being.
Again from the Tao Te Ching (Verse 16):
The ten-thousand things arise together…
Holy Transparency reminds us that though we experience ourselves as a discrete entity, we are not separate from all the other entities and we are not separate from the Whole. Not only can we perceive the Ocean and its Waves, we ourselves are one of the Waves! In the midst of perceiving what Holy Omniscience shows us, we should not forget that it is true for us as well.We are also part of Unity’s unfolding.
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