DAY 12
The physical world is all about relationships. Around them we create stories. A Christmas tree tells a story; the tree the ornaments are hung on is related to other evergreen trees, which leads back to the plant kingdom and the origins of life. There is nothing in the world that can be seen without being embedded in relationships spreading out in all directions. This web of relationships is the invisible net that holds everything together. Tangled inside the web, we create endless stories in an ongoing movie.
But how do you get out of the web? Humans dream of a realm like Heaven that allows the relative world to drop away forever. Heaven may be a dream, but a world beyond isn’t. By waking up, you find yourself in that world, which is consciousness itself. Beyond all created things lies the womb of creation.
Let your gaze roam the room and pick any object at random. Now in rapid succession, think of as many words as you can in thirty seconds that relate to the object. Let’s say you chose a table lamp. Words related to a table lamp: light, lightning bug, torch, Statue of Liberty, lamp beside the golden door, freedom, immigrants, Germany, Nazism, Hitler, World War II, and so on. Notice that the flow of words spreads out on its own, going in any and every direction. By a simple exercise in word association, you have woven one strand of the web that creates the known world.