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Is the point of this wording that God's so elusive and so evasive, you can say what God's like, but nothing more? Naturally, God's influence in your personal life may be a sure thing, a thing to count on, even if you're not a betting person. God's impact on you may be so personal as to be visceral, even invasive. So for that very point does it make most sense just To Point to the being of your contentment, or your discontent, if that's your modest relationship with God? The commom alternative, to objectify a reality that just will not abide for long being an object, leads you to absolutize your trust, the trust of the small will. And that can sicken your faith, giving rise to the practice of faithism, a deadly bias, perhaps the worst bigotry. But are these the two and only two options, to point or to objectify?
The language of wording, whose source is contemplation, does gesture and is far from language that objectifies. It might as well be called Non-objectifying in its intent, its intentional use. But it wants to say precisely God, not alone what God's like. It employs metaphor where it must to report what's palpably real. Its core aim is like show-and-tell, to delight in and share, what it notices. Or like giving directions to a place been and seen, as in There's Delight, Do You See It There Too? Any transformation that may occur to its audience is strictly an inside job for them, outside of the purview of the pointing, as is any information that may come along with the gesturing beyond the Discovery of Delight.
Again, the intent of the wording project is to serve delight. If what arises is some healing, like the feeling of coming home, getting inside from some great storm outside, fine. But wording is not divine psychotherapy. The wording language lets you point in your absence to what's been seen, and says to the reader, Do you see that? Is that not wonderful, or what! That's its locus of influence. But in its gestures wording offers both a claim: Wow! and a means to test the claim, The Reader's Own Noticing. The Being of Being is what's at stake. The Feeling of Being in Delight is the test.
So on the question of God's Place, if God's very being is so fluid as to be already and always in process, where could you possibly locate such a being? If possible anywhere, would it not be necessarily everywhere and in all things, great and small; even in circumstance good and not-so-much? But what could you say about the dwelling place of Such Being? If you had to say, say only The Being of Suchness Dwells In Delight All Around. But if that much is your experience, then there's absolutely no need to rush, no need to search, for Such Being will find you, as you are ready to be found.
Now if you say it makes just as much sense to say such being dwells nowhere, as to say everywhere, just where is nowhere, if not Now, Here. Here notice, that's a final observation, not a question; granted, as with all observations, it can be said to be tainted with discernment. Now how to judge the discernment? Do you see that? Notice. |
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