What Does the Universe Want to Live as You?
¿Qué quiere el universo vivir como tú?
A reflection on the inseparability of the individual from the universe, and how the belief in exclusive identification with the body-mind obstructs a deeper expression of life.
What Does the Universe Want to Live as You?
A reflection on the inseparability of the individual from the universe, and how the belief in exclusive identification with the body-mind obstructs a deeper expression of life.
There is a question I keep returning to, one I find myself raising so often that I should probably write something about it. The question is this: what does the universe want to live as you?
The body-mind is specific, but not separate
It is very specific, because "you" refers to what you experience as yourself: the narrative, the stories, your past conditionings. What makes one person distinct from another? There is a difference. But we are all the universe. It is impossible to separate this body-mind from the universe. It is simply not possible. There is no separation from any angle. You could talk to a quantum physicist, you could talk to a mystic; only those who don't really know will say you could separate. There is just no separation in any sense.
And yet, what in some spiritual circles is described as the body-mind is different from person to person. There is a difference between one individual and another, between me and you. When we believe we are only and exclusively the body-mind, we operate under the assumptions and limitations of that belief.
The mockingbird and the unobstructed life
So the question returns: what does the universe want to live as you? Consider this. The universe wants to live as the mockingbird out there. How is that expressed? It is expressed as the mockingbird doing everything it is doing at any given moment. The whole universe is needed for that mockingbird to do exactly what it is doing at every moment. And because the mockingbird doesn't carry a belief in its own separation, it is also not obstructing the universe's desire.
But we humans have both the privilege and the curse of that capacity. We can believe ourselves separate, and in doing so, we obstruct what the universe is trying to live through us.