Permanent impermanence

In Odin's mailbox this beautiful Fall morning...

“Want meaningless Zen? / Just look – at anything!”

There is a higher reality of – call it pure spirit – wholly and completely unnameable. Our limited cognitive capacity – notwithstanding its reputed billions of neurons equal to or beyond the number of stars in the universe, and consequent egoic commitment to use the term “God” – places an irrational limit on this unnameable source of ongoing creation. The “God” of this world is not the name of the creator of however many universes there may be.

The universe is organic. The reliance on mathematics by physics to describe the universe is an attempt to make of it a mechanical extension of matter. It is not the parts that determine the whole, but the whole that determines the parts – Basil Hiley, Chair of Physics, Birkbeck College, The University of London.

Impermanence never takes a break. There is never a moment when we’re not in transition—and believe it or not this is good news. The elements that make up this unique moment of life – yours, mine, ours, the purring cat, wild boar, sleeping owl – all came into being at some point; soon those elements will disperse and this experience will be over to be replaced by yet more mystery. – after Pema Chodron