...learned that the answer to any question can be answered by becoming internally silent. I learned this first while working on formal koans. I would read a koan, and then silently contemplate this issue. After a few hours, or a few days, (or a few weeks for the more difficult ones), voila! The answer would suddenly appear (from somewhere other than mind). Later, I discovered that personal koans, which are much more important than traditional formal koans, can be answered in the same way. Becoming silent is like tapping into the vastness of universal being. In space-age parlance, each human being has a "downlink" to God. That connection (which is really wholeness) can be trusted.
One value of woo-woo experiences is that they allow one to see, beyond any doubt, the perfection of THIS, the vastness of THIS, and the benevolence of THIS. One glimpse of the Whole, and one can only bow down in reverence, humilty, and gratitude. The glimpse becomes a memory, but the power of it is everlasting.
Several movies have vaguely captured the mystical sense of this, but probably the best sequence ever filmed was in "American Beauty" when Ricky described what he realized while filming the plastic bag that was "playing" with him. The last scene in the movie with Lester's voice-over also captured it.
One value of woo-woo experiences is that they allow one to see, beyond any doubt, the perfection of THIS, the vastness of THIS, and the benevolence of THIS. One glimpse of the Whole, and one can only bow down in reverence, humilty, and gratitude. The glimpse becomes a memory, but the power of it is everlasting.
Several movies have vaguely captured the mystical sense of this, but probably the best sequence ever filmed was in "American Beauty" when Ricky described what he realized while filming the plastic bag that was "playing" with him. The last scene in the movie with Lester's voice-over also captured it.
