You might have seen that video that starts way out in space, zooms down, and gradually arrives at the milky way, then our solar system, then the earth, then down through the atmosphere, then to a person laying on the grass, and continuing to the pupil of their eye, and continuing infinitely deep past their eye, to their DNA itself, and continuing deeper, to infinite worlds and galaxies within.
Though it is just a video, it is a pretty good demonstration of the idea that there are lots of levels of creation.
Even though all those additional levels that exist may not be seen from the level that you currently see, sample, and witness, accumulatively, you are connected to all of them, and they all have their influence in the place where you are.
Existence itself fully attends all that is, all levels of creation.
And as you exist, you are not separate from that.
They exist in their various portions and sizes which can be witnessed, attended to, and experienced.
When you practice using the mystic scale to abide in the place between opposites, all of those levels are felt as adding into a cumulative, or macro invitation to lean or not lean.
And you simply practice not leaning.
You fully attend those arriving changes in the place that does not miss the mark.
Not missing the mark, there is nothing done, and nothing left undone.
All this is finished without toiling and spinning.
With taking no thought for the morrow.
It is effortless.
Even so, it is possible to surf this place of steadiness as if with a mystic yoke, or a scale, essentially using the frame of the physical body in worship.
And this is an active way to participate.
It is a way to offer something unique to creation, to surf life’s opposites, and to participate in the reconciliation of the presentations of the world.
It is not different than the practice of “Abiding in Me”, and it occurs in the midst of a changing world, in the midst of the ever-new presentations of life and creation.
There is an actual way to do this.
First, the straight and narrow way is located.
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How To Locate The Straight And Narrow Way Of Scripture, Where It Is, And How To Find It.
The straight and narrow place can be found by using the human frame as a tool to establish the equivalent of that old-fashioned scale, which is the mystic yoke, or mystical cross.
And this technique is experientially what it means to “Take up your cross and follow Me”.
It is done by the technique of gathering two or more points and surfing the place that is in the midst of them.
You can know the place, the straight and narrow way that is found between those opposites, and then simply abiding there, abiding in Me, know what is in the midst of them.
And abiding there, you get to participate in the reconciliation of the world, as the world rolls up before you in ever-new ways and creation.
There is a straight and narrow place between opposites, between right and left, which is not different than the vertical plane of the cross.
And a place between the opposites of too high and too low, which is not different than the horizontal plane of the cross.
Surfing the changeless place between these opposites, while established in this place, the place of the actual mystic yoke, cross, or scale, is how to practice.
And you are in the place of certainty.
You know in a self-evident way, exactly how to abide there without any departure.
And then you just Abide in this straight and narrow place, or Way, and hold to this “One good thing” with all your heart, might, mind, and strength.
This is called “leaning not unto your own understanding”.
The leaning or going outward into the world is what generates new creation and unfinished business.
That is what is called “toiling and spinning”, and “Taking thought for the morrow”.
When you “Abide in Me”, though, there is no toiling and spinning, and no taking thought for the morrow.
The place where you are is realized as the one exact, right place for you, in all the macro and micro-universe.
And it is the “going out”, that generates new unfinished business, new creation and new suffering.
Those goings outward, however, can be threaded, welcomed back, and reconciled.
It all happens at your abiding place, the sacred ground that when the sandals were thrown from off your feet, you made sacred by standing there, the place where you are, and “go no more out”.
Heaven, earth, and you are just exactly in the right place at the right time.
From your place at ground zero, there is just One life in the Universe, and there is no “other”.
Locationally there is no distance and nothing to newly obtain.
No need to go outward from the place at which you exactly witness creation.
You are always, inescapably, yourself.
And indeed, surprisingly, though it may seem otherwise, you don’t actually move at all.
Creation keeps presenting itself in new ways before you. Almost as if it is dialed up, it approaches, is viewed, changes, and presents itself in ever-new ways and combinations.
So in the example of the video mentioned earlier, it’s not so much the camera descending from space, moving toward a fixed object, such as the person laying on the grass.
Rather, the observer, viewing through the camera, doesn’t move at all, and creation, the moveable, the changeable, arrives, presenting itself in all those ever-variable, new levels and ways to the one changelessly in your place, the one witnessing life.
Science has shown that there are worlds and universes both within and without.
And much may be beyond the immediate, dialed-into, level, or listing of current objects of consideration.
There is a mystical, Middle Way way to surf creation’s presenting arising of changes in such a way as to actively, and without distraction, abide in the exact center.
At first with effort, and also effortlessly.
The inescapable abiding effortlessly, ever changelessly at the place of the viewer of the lens.
And also getting to actively surf the Middle Way in the midst of life’s creation.
“Abiding in Me”, and surfing the changeless place between opposites, in all times, and all places, while having a part in reconciling the world, is done through the sport of abiding in the place between aversion and affinity.
Aversion means avoiding.
Affinity, its opposite means being attracted to.
To succumb to either of the two involves directionality, and is called leaning unto your own understanding.
Directionality itself necessitates going out into the world generates new creation.
Distance goes WITH new creation.
There has to be a place to put things.
Hence the expanding universe, and the reconciling, contracting one.
Abiding in Me does not go out.
Not going out, but holding to the one good thing, reconciles creation.
This is because the place between opposites is also the place between the opposites of: overreacting and underreacting.
There is a place between overreacting and underreacting that for any given consideration, or presenting creation, is just right.
Being just exactly right, that means that in its reception or welcoming, there is no unfinished business remaining, and each presenting prodigal expression is reconciled in the place that does not miss the mark.
It is locational.
Not in some distant, outward locational way, a place yet to be obtained, yet to be traveled to, but just Here.
To surf the place between opposites would be hard to figure out if you didn’t know the way to establish the scale, to take up your cross, and to follow Me.
With the scale, it is a no-brainer.
Just don’t lean, but do it with the help of this easy-to-establish mystical yoke, cross, or scale.
And then, simply in all times and places, Abide in Me.
You do, already fully attend all of life around you without doing anything.
Without knowing how to establish this scale, how could one even be able to find this straight and narrow place between opposites, or have the determination, confidence, technique, faith, or certainty to hold to this the one good thing in the midst of a changing world?
While the world presents itself in invitation after invitation to depart outwardly.
That place, the place of not leaning, the place of Me, is the straight and narrow place.
It is not Lo here or Lo there; it is… within you, as a treasure hidden in a field.
This is the Pearl of Great Price which a person will sell all that he has to hold to, to choose the one good thing.
It is an actual way, and practicing in this way is the sport of living.
Why is it important to keep your eye steady, to keep your eye single?
That a person can keep their eye single, implies that it’s possible for them to also not keep their eye single. If you’ve ever looked through a telescope, or a set of binoculars you will understand this.
Even if the telescope or the binoculars are steady, if the position of the eye over them isn’t steady, there are parts, especially along the edges of the viewable field that will waver in and out of not being seen.
There is a mismatching there, and also, something that can be surfed, that one can abide in, that can be experienced as steady.
Those edges may appear black, obscured, jumpy, or blurred.
So this sighting into the place between opposites, and holding to it, is the method.
It is done with all of one’s heart, might, mind, and strength.
And that allows the steady focusing as if with a lens.
You can absolutely know your place in the universe, and have the confidence and certainty that you are exactly where you should be, and doing exactly what you should be doing at any given moment.
How and Why you can have confidence and certainty that you are in the right place, fully arrived, and doing what you should do?
If you can establish the mystic scale, it is self-evident when you are off track, and self-evident exactly how to correct it, exactly how much, and in what direction, and it is possible to know locationally when you have arrived.
There is locationality to this, which makes sense because it is the science, art, and philosophy of not missing the mark.
Practicing in this way, you can know that everything is exactly as it should be.
This certain knowledge is the knowledge that provides rest.
The following article explains how to use the human frame to establish the equivalent of an old-fashioned scale, to locate the straight and narrow place between opposites, and to surf or abide in the Middle Way, the place between opposites.