Solder the wound

This morning in meditation the image of a circuit helped me see clearly what healing is. The present moment is fluid, impermanent, a flow of energy manifesting in interconnected patterns and systems. When our conscious mind selects some form as a conscious object and then holds onto that form (like a person who just attacked you), either through attraction or aversion (same holding), we break the flow of energy as if we cut a wire in a circuit. Life stops and fear holds us in place. We experience this holding, this break, as suffering, discomfort, disease, anger, fear, guilt, sin, despair, anxiety, etc. etc. (you get the idea).

But because we don’t see form as impermanent, we believe form is stable, that we very self is a solid thing, but even our self image is impermanent and has not existence in itself. It’s like we believe the reflection in a pond is stable and exists in itself.

So how to we reconnect the circuit and get the energy of life flowing. We solder the wire with forgiveness. The soldering gun is Christ, the solder is Buddha. But forgiveness releases that form our mind had selected out of the field of conscious to hold, forgiveness remembers impermanence and that everything is interconnected, interbeing…forgiveness heals the wound of separation.

This is a practice because we are constantly breaking the circuit of life and we constantly need to see this break as a break and this seeing is the act of soldering the cut wire. No effort is needed. No further imaging or thought in the mind. Just the seeing of this gap with a choiceless awareness (as Krishnamurti always said).

This seeing is the compassion of Buddha and the Kingdom of Heaven within…but is is never a place or thing selected by the mind as a conscious object….because that selection, that taking of the sheep out of the field, again breaks the circuit. When we forgive, we release ourselves like water is release from ice.

Thank you.