Students of the Instant

March 13, 2017

Symbiosis

The human being is a collection of living molecules sharing life in such a society that, in symbiosis, they generate an individual consciousness of being human.

Each molecule is born under an agreement of exchange: it is granted the continuity of living in return for building, on its own, its own ecosystem of life. This agreement is the principle of life for every being.

And following the principle of life, which is to give, life creates a being hungry to receive. A being capable of attacking its mother to quench an uncertain but urgent thirst. A being eager to forge walls to protect itself from the monstrosities of its world, and that does not know how to open its heart to the sweetness of a flower.

Life places its child upon the planet, inexperienced, but always loved. The principle of life thus grows according to the level of consciousness the being devotes to building its own principle of life.

But no, the human being is not lost. The human being is just as life wanted it to be; otherwise it would not be as it is. The humanity of the human being, constrained beneath the individual perception of the senses, is just what life wanted to be in the form of a human being.

For forms, being creations of being, mutate and transform, unaware that they are illusions dreamed by it. It is not that forms are lost; they are simply playing out their own right to be forms that mutate and transform unaware.

The human being, before being human, is a being. The molecules that compose it, before being molecules, are also being. That is why they are alive. That is why they have the power to generate, in symbiosis, an individual consciousness called a human being.

Being is not human, though it includes the human. Being is undisturbed by human perceptions, for any disturbance that may occur is one more human perception occurring in front of being.

Being creates the consciousness that generates life.

And so life keeps building its own ecosystem, generating, in symbiosis, more life.