balancing three things
This post is going to delve into the traditional western Christian western perspective. Since I was raised as a Christian Methodist, I have a lot of moral foundations that are structured quite a bit different in relation to the way a foundation would be structured from a Buddhist upbringing. Think of it this way for instance: foundations for ones mental and psychological personality are put into their ultimate blueprint or design layout at the beginning of their life. The very fundamental instruments that serve as their tools or components for guiding them through their path in life are morally structured primarily in the early developmental stages of life.
So the very mystical casual chain of mankind's father or 'creator' being one which is an intangible or unseeable entity that is ultimately an all encompassing and infinitely powerful deity who can do things that are incomprehensible to human beings. But scientifically and rationally, such a thing is not available to the rational scientific process for verification. Whenever inside the domain of mankind's rational comprehension sphere, one of the most powerful and unquestionably certain, transcendental principles that dictate the nature of reality within the context of that domain is the rule of scientific inquiry and rational. Let's take a look at the casual relationship of sibling and father relationship.
First, you have the father, who then initiates the entirety of his offspring's own casual chain or domain of being to come into existence. Now I want to focus on the phrase I often use for in mindfulness meditation: “Father, make me an instrument of peace.” Since I currently no longer identify with the Christian domain of the abstract infinite all encompassing God father initiator, what then could the word father mean? If you think about the logical nature of where the word father resides in that sentence, it is serving a purpose of being which serves at the beginning of the logical chain in which all the rest of the words depend. In a way, the word father is the very foundation that all the rest of the words depend upon to jolt them into a position of meaning.
If you then remove the mysticism from the concept of the word father, and secularize it into the phrase: 'that which brings forth.' The abstract 'that' then serves as the foundation for the the rest of the words to then jolt forth from. So then, from 'that', the phrase: 'make me' is being brought forth from the abstract concept of 'that.' By doing this, one is simultaneously holding two different views mentally in place while reciting the passage: “Father, make me an instrument of peace.” In this way, one is also giving their mind the dual task of balancing the two very different concepts, one being the western God Father-head, and the other being a secular abstract concept of the neutral 'that.' While doing this mental balancing act during mindfulness meditation, one is to be focusing their attention and awareness upon the present-moment. The present-moment would be the third abstract element: the self. So there is the mental concept of the christian Godfather, 'that', and the awareness of 'self.' A person is then balancing those three different concepts simultaneously.
In all seriousness, how in the world was J.S. Bach able to spontaneously improvising 3 and 4 part fugues? Anyways, just a thought I wanted to share.
Cheers!
周培森