Fifty years ago Neil Armstrong uttered the famous words as he stepped onto the surface of the moon, “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. That was after billions of dollars and many missions and lives lost. We have the beautiful photo of our home taken from well into that journey. In some ways that brought it home to us, collectively, that where we exist is on a tiny planet in the vastness of space. We have an enormous appetite for exploration and looking out and going out into space has a huge fascination for us.
But maybe we are missing something bigger and much more rewarding. Instead of looking out, start looking in. The clue is in what we call ourselves, Human Beings. We have done the Human side to the nth degree. The small fragile body who lives for a brief length of time located on a planet somewhere in space, who has evolved and dominated that space and who more or less thinks he owns it. We, as humans, have throughout our history lived in separateness, isolated from each other and other species, fought bitter battles with each other mainly over ownership of the earth. Enough of the human race and survival of the fittest.
But lighting up our history some great human beings have lived among us and shown us a better way. From Socrates “know thy Self” to the Buddha, who found “Nirvana” here on earth, to Jesus “The Kingdom of Heaven is Within” and to many more and they have all pointed to the truth of Being, that this state exists right Here, right Now. So this other dimension beyond the material form, beyond the mind which interprets the forms, exists within us, it is part of us and we are part of It.
So the real journey for us is to discover this dimension. It wont take billions of currency, it wont need hardware or software, all it will take is for us to look in the right way. There are movements towards this, yoga schools have sprung up and multiplied, the growth of mindfulness awareness is spreading and modern spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”, are leading many people in the right direction. I will be meeting Eckhart next week.
Bon voyage.