THE BUILDING BLOCK

(The virginal block – Tao Te Ching)

 

The universal trinity is:  1) God  2) Thought 3) Thinking (the EP). This structure is the archetype of everything: the building block of all; the universe.

 

 

THROUGHOUT  ALL  CREATION  THERE IS  ONLY  ONE  BUILDING BLOCK 

 

 

 

 ‘The universe gives me my body so that I may be carried, my life so I may toil; my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. A boat may be hidden in a creek or a lake in a mountain. These may be said to be safe. But at midnight a strong man may come and carry it away on his back. An ignorant person does not know that even when the hiding of things, large or small, is perfectly well done, still something will escape you. But if the universe is hidden in the universe itself, then there can be no escape from it. This is the great truth of things in general. ‘

 

Chuang Tzu (369 - 286 B.C.)

 

 

 

IT IS   MOVEMENT OF THE ONE BUILDING BLOCK THAT CREATES  THE  ILLUSIONS  WE  ACCEPT  AS  REAL.

 

 

EXPLANATION

There is only one building block which, by the command of thinking, gets reproduced so quickly that we experience it as movies running together. However, because these movies represent the lives that we live we accept them as real. When Chuang Tzu stated: ‘if the universe is hidden in the universe itself, then there can be no escape from it.’  He was expressing the awareness that because all things are produced from the movement of one building block, the block is the universe and the movement of the block is illusion. And so, the universe is indeed hidden in the universe.

 

EXAMPLE

If a lit bulb is being moved in different directions through a dark space and those watching are unaware of the bulb. It is likely that they will ascribe different subjective values to what is being observed. When the bulb stops moving and is revealed for all to see, it will be realised that all of their thinking in regard to the moving light was illusion. The bulb is analogous to the universal building block and the movement uses illusion to hide the building block (bulb) within itself.

AS  ABOVE  SO  BELOW

Thinking drives the universal spiral and as the building block is moved the outer world comes to form. It is the movement of this one building block that creates all. When we come to realise the illusion we will slow down our thinking to eventually reveal the building block, thereby to achieve the clarity of thought and thus to be reconciled to closure. The spiral block will return to a circle which in turn becomes God.   

 

* The above information will be explained in detail throughout the course of this book.

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