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Accessing SANCTUM
SANCTUM,
that is to say, undifferentiated (i.e. pre-identity, pre-unit) wholeness,
completion, holiness and so on (that is to say, wholeness as such), happens
the moment (and IT lasts only a moment, though that moment is experienced as
timeless) the wall of the sanctuary (i.e. unitised identity) is let go. Entering (in
fact, becoming, and thereby experiencing) SANCTUM (and which is, as such,
prior to or beyond experience and which is provided by the sanctuary wall) is
the goal of the practical (rather than theoretical) mystic. Once the
initial entry moment is over, SANCTUM disappears. That’s because
entering/becoming SANCTUM (i.e. wholeness, fullness, completion and so on) is
dynamic, i.e. a step taken (or not taken). Since SANCTUM is experienced only
upon entry (more precisely stated, when she lets go of the sanctuary wall
(i.e. her unitised identity) and finds herself free-floating in SANCTUM), the
mystic who seeks to experience SANCTUM more than once must enter and leave IT
more than once. For the
mystic to reach her goal, she must first create a sanctuary, i.e. a perfect
(because whole unit of) identity. By so doing she attains (and experiences)
identified wholeness, fulfilment and so on, to wit, a relativized slice or
cut of SANCTUM. She then
attaches a safety rope (better, still an elastic bungee) - with a timer (the timer is vital) - to
her identity, that is to say, to the inside of her sanctuary wall. Then she
lets go of her identity (i.e. of the sanctuary wall) and, bingo, floats free
(i.e. disappears almost, but for her bungee) in time-less, space-less,
form-less wholeness (fulfilment, to wit, nirvana, heaven
and so on). That’s very easy to do, if one has the nerve to let go. If the
mystic jumps deliberately (or because she is forced to let go of her
sanctuary, i.e. at death) without a bungee she never returns (and which
Buddhist call entering pari-nibbana). The Chinese
method of reaching SANCTUM was to reduce the sanctuary (i.e. the identity or
self) to a point, and then step off the point, and which produced the
free-float experience of SANCTUM. Dogen, the
Japanese Buddhist mystic, bungee jumped (in China) into SANCTUM, then
developed a safe slow means of entry, called Zazen. Meister Eckhart appears
to have walked himself into IT. Amateur
mystics are warned not to try the mystic bungee jump, save under guidance by
an experienced mystic, i.e. one who got back. Bu contrast,
the saint sits, as it were, on the sanctuary wall facing outwards. She feels
the coolness breeze of undifferentiated wholeness, i.e. of universal, i.e.
absolute completeness/fulfilment, on her back, most often as the hairs on the
back of her neck standing up. |