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Space is like a wall. Impenetrable, vast, so enormously huge one dare not think of sailing into it. The time scale of traveling to the stars cannot be overcome by any spacecraft. Einsteins law of relativity sets the maximum speed for matter equal to the speed of light. The ancients knew that the mind can travel. There is no limit to the speed of thought other than the imaginative power of the traveler. Yet when our attention remains focussed on the clutter going on around us, we remain captives of this earth and it's people. Space looks like a wall. |
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When rabbi Joshua walked the streets of Jerusalem he was attacked by a dirty big dog barking at him. The rabbi nearly got bit, but hit the beast with a stick and managed to keep it on a distance. That night the rabbi had a strange dream: He saw a group of women dancing around a dog, they enclosed the animal in a circle and it could not break loose no matter how it barked and jumped around trying to find a way out. Then a beautiful male figure joined the women in their dance that seemed to be guided by heavenly choreography. The dog lay down quietly and turned into a peacock. Then the rabbi saw it fly away. For years rabbi Joshua had forgotten about this dream of his. But some day a little girl asked him a question: "Why does our God only save people and not the animals? Are there no cats and dogs allowed?" So simple this question seems, yet it left the rabbi dumbfounded. He had to admit that he didn't even know what it ment to be saved, let alone what happens to a dog... That night the rabbi dreamed again: He walked through the desert and slowly approached a group of people meditating on a sandhill. He recognized these were the same people he met years ago dancing for the dog that became a peacock. Joshua felt a sudden urge to enter the circle and asked the question he knew was burning in his chest: "How can even a dog be liberated?" He just cried it out loud, but the meditators remained still. Instead there came a wave of sound generated from the centre of Joshua's head to his ears. He knew this was the sacred sound that saved every living being in the universe. And it sounded like: "Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom". And Joshua woke up. And Joshua never again spoke a word. And Joshua never again tried to make sense out of a word. For he had heard. And the singing never left the inside of his skull. This singing that made him glad. And other people became happy too, though they didn't understand how or why. Only the animals knew. Rabbi Joshua had that peculiar look of someone not needing anything anymore. Just "Om" is a "no no" to self-interest, and a big affirmative to the dance of life everlasting... |
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