A Philosophy
A Way of Being A Practice
This small essay expresses a more metaphysical understanding and experience of life through the internalization of the model.
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The Arising World Model is so axiomatic. Cold. Stark. Infinite state spaces transforming through a process of becoming---arising into the light as a new version of the old forms---natural lines of fracture isolating me from everything else, but only ever so slightly---my potential arising into new being moment by moment. These are the facts of this model of one becoming.
Even in the starkness of the model a certain poetry arises. It is the poetry of the world as the cosmos expresses itself. The world becoming is the natural poetry of the universe, the most glorious expression of any concept of expressiveness.
But what the model doesn’t illuminate for us, since it is aimed at the cognitive mind, is the actual experience of the world arising. Because subjective experience itself is outside of mind, it does not lie gently on a paper diagram. I cannot get it to conform. It rises and rails into space. Wide space. Deep space.
Whenever we move out of our cognitive living spaces we find a world that is more richly textured than we can imagine in our thinking minds. What is this texture of the world that we sense on many levels? It is a feeling in the body, an energetic disturbance, a flow of intuitions and ideas, a comprehension of relationships and patterns. All things in a meld of sensation.
But I should begin at the beginning.
The world is arising. No thing is still or stagnant. All is arising into the light. Moving, shifting, changing. This means that all is stirring. Everything, each thing is in motion, in vibration, recreating itself moment by moment out of the thought of itself. Its potential is flowing into being as the expression of an idea.
The potential of the world, the soup of possibilities and probabilities, the repository of our history, is transforming into the world itself, becoming manifest in form and light, and in our minds. The past gleams in the world before us as a reflection of what we have thought, what we have done, where we have been. The manifest world is only our history, our past of action and inaction. And the moment that we live in is the potential of our future, where we have the chance to color the arising nature of the future world.
To live in the arising world, instead of the “real” world, is a life of another texture. Things still sit on the table, apparent, but like a novelist reading their own pages, you see the world as something arising from what you have writ. What we have writ were there really more than one of us.
And you feel different in your body for you have begun to recognize the arising potential’s vibration. The recognition of which creates a kind of suspension, a rising up, a falling out, a floating in a less than solid space and time. And in that space and time arises the prayer for a fall into grace, a deepening cascade into the potential of the world---the desire for an ability to maintain one’s levitation in the vibration of the arising space around you. To move back into the old mode feels like coming down, settling back, losing suspension.
But the world is still here. Rising. And coffee is drunk and the mailman brings packages from far across the planet. Rain falls; sun rises. Loved ones send missives across the ether.
It is as if you are becoming rooted in another dimension. But yet, you realize that what you have found is the real world, and that while living here in this new space “does not compute” for it is beyond cognition, it is more real, more practical, more ethical than living in the world reduce to its simpler material, mechanical form. For you realize that the limitations inherent in the old model are not real, but straightjackets, not limitations of capability, but only of vision.
Like a child with training wheels, we attempt to figure out how to stay here in the arising world and then do something. What does that mean? If anything. To act from the midst of the experience of the world as a more liquid object, more malleable, more active. In that space, what does action mean? How does it feel? How corporeal does it need to be? The seeds of the future are ideas, imaginings. And in this space you sense that to seed the future is to imagine it. And then follow on with what ever action arises from that glorious image.
You see, the potential arises into your space as your life and your work. It stands there before you shining. It is before you for you to engage with it, to step in and find your way with it. For in the moment of arising there is the potency of choice---to step in, to ignore, to resist, to embrace. To surrender to what is and, from that engagement, choose---act in the moment of the potential of your future.
And of course your future is everyone’s future, for you are only a fractal piece of the choosing.
In that engagement, the world will be transformed. And, more potently, in that engagement you will be transformed. For your conscious awareness is part and parcel of the arising world, an expression of the universe as well as a participant in the design process.
The texture of your life morphs into a living and breathing dance. Your focus on the actuality of the arising moment attenuates your attention, stretches your mind into a thread of possibility. You find a visceral understanding that you are free and that you are ultimately safe within the potential of the world (or you understand that any idea of safety you may have had is not the point). And with freedom and nothing to dread, you find boldness and fearless creative possibility.
And then, to the best of your ability you stay there, and you just walk forward into the light. And if you can’t stay there, you practice getting there until you can. And either way, your experience of the world is richer, more textured, more potent---and more joyous, for the nature of the arising world is glorious and free, rambunctious and bold.
As they tell us, you are that.