“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.” --Rilke



A physicist friend recently told me that he was working on modeling the cosmos in fourteen dimensions. “Use anything less than fourteen dimensions and nothing makes sense.

“Each part of the cosmos can be explained but each explanation contradicts our understanding of one or more of the other parts. We do understand the parts but not how they fit together. We don’t even have language to explain that.”

Physicist David Bohm, one of the giants of quantum physics and a spiritual seeker, said that the greatest piece of advice he received from his teacher, the philosopher J. Krishnamurti, was to always start from the unknown.

Swami Rama, one of the last great Himalayan Masters of the 20th Century said of Gandhi, whom he knew personally, that Gandhi seemed not to walk but to be propelled by the unknown.

To walk the path (and there is only one path) we stop trying to explain or understand the unknown.  We simply make friends with the unknown.

Abhay

Bend, Oregon.

Oct 17 2021.