Question
In your view, what distance separates the subject from the object? Where does this sense of separation come from, this burden of being a person who was born, lives, and will die? I am asking because I no longer remember what it means; I cannot see the difference between myself and what is perceived.
Was any of this ever born?
Has any of this ever disappeared?
At the window, the papyrus trembles with the rhythm of breathing.
A poem by my master Ganga.
Anonymous
Answer from Master Kosen
The distance separating the subject from the object is called space-time, or also mirror consciousness.
This separation, as you call it, serves to make us aware of ourselves. We (God) created it so that we could feel things and feel ourselves, and experience them. It is said that the path up the mountain (toward oneness) and the path down (toward multiplicity) are the same.
This means that for God, creating space-time and fragmentation is an evolution; for us (humans), making them disappear is progress and evolution. So we must not think that humanity and God are separate or antagonistic, and we must not overindulge in Master “Ganga.”
Kosen