Students of the Instant

September 12, 2015

The Story of the Human Being

This world tells us a story.

Human nature expresses itself in this world through energetic forms of certain varied vibrations.

As they pass, the waves generate physical laws so as to join together in energy centers or fields understood as individuals, the entity that calls itself a human being. This star of energy, when observed, settles into particles that make up a biological ecosystem we see as the human body.

This open system is made up of a countless population of smaller systems with specific shapes through which they let life flow. Each particular bit of energy assigns itself certain tasks that, taken together, fit perfectly into a single task: keeping life going.

Among forces that perceive themselves as cells, microorganisms, neurons, blood, organs, fluids of life, impulses to beat, etc., there also coexist subtler substances that know themselves as thoughts, emotions or influences.

These beings, as they move freely through this world, carry out a great many interactions to keep existence going, both their own and that of the rest of the world. Nothing is out of place. Every kind of sensation and mental current is part of a perfect whole that has never once in the world been wrong.

Attention is the center around which the flow of life that moves the world holds together. Into it enters the perception of these torrents of reality, according to the direction and frequency modulation at which it is receiving or tuning in. Given a zone of possible perceptions belonging to human nature, attention moves within it, catching a sub-area of lived moments and drawing it into experience.

One specific story among the infinite ones the world tells is chosen to be interpreted and unfolded before the senses as an individual world. Attention focuses on what will become that instant a human being reports in their understanding of the world.

Another inhabitant of the human world is identification. It is a nerve living at the edges of what is manifested, reaching toward the grasping of the reality that attention brings into focus. So identification is the flow of a dynamism that, as it passes, generates etheric laws to bind clusters of realities together.

Every being leaves a trail behind it, a footprint that bears witness to its existence. Identification's is a solidifying of perception, something like a slowing down in the passing of the world. And not in the passing as such, but in the interpretation of the story the world is telling us. Here a lag occurs, which human beings call illusion, or maya.

Then a clouding falls over the understanding of the world. The liveliness of mental movements dazzles human credulity, and the human being chooses to stay trapped in a world of dreams that feeds on whatever credit it is given.

The key is to discern. Not so much what is what in the world, but rather to know that everything that passes is nothing more than flashes happening in the biorhythm of an organism that will soon disintegrate back into nothing.

Beyond what is reported by the interpretive filter called identification, beyond what is perceived by the all-seeing eye called consciousness, beyond the very manifestation of consciousness, beyond what is called existence and non-existence themselves. This beyond can be known by the human being as Here.

The world tells infinite stories, some more convincing, some more subtle. But absolutely everything, all that can be observed, perceived or interpreted, is just one more inhabitant of the world.

But behind the whole story of the human being, let us look: What is always Here?