The whole universe is expanding at ever increasing speeds out from itself. It's becoming something creative and new in each moment. Nothing is remaining the same; everything is in creative transition towards a new expression of itself.
In our tired and somewhat burdened lives we don't perceive the activity of life as a sense of creation itself.
We too in our lives are part of that universe. You are that universe. In fact, you are the center of the universe because the universe only has center. All things are the center.
There's no edge to the universe. It's creating the very space it's evolving into. We are moving into something that is inexplicably wondrous.
There is a need to honor past influences within us. The Buddha invites us into the body and whatever the body contains we have to work with. What the body contains is the scar tissue of what we have known or the abuse we have given it or the emotions that are locked. And as we enter the body the past begins to express itself.
What each of us takes ourselves to be is a residue of the past and a film that blocks the effervescent light of this creative force.
How can we bring this into the creative movement of the universe itself?
- Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation lecture, 9/13/2011
