To see the pure face is to see yourself beyond the world.

I wonder Antlerman.

"Original Face," our own True Self--the face before the Big Bang.

That interior trans-formative 'taste' that becomes 'structure'--Emptiness to Form, the un-manifest to manifest--Form to Emptiness.

A transcendental and ascending, immanent and descending, prior non-dual Union--the pure face beyond the world?

Who were you 100 years before you were born? What is that is not subject to the body and time?

"Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'."

 

As we come to know this more intimately, it becomes our center. And though we still function 'in the body' or put another way, within the conventions of the world we call reality, we are not embedded within it, seated within it, and borne about with it as it blows us from side to side. We experience the world, but are not defined by it. We are defined by our being.

 

The purpose of having a physical body is to experience having a physical body.

Yes you are both part of your body and not. You are defined by your personality and by essence. However, the conscience you, or personality, is always in control.

Every choice is yours. If you wish to have more communion with essence, then do so. However, it does not relieve you of having to live this life with all of the scathing and learning that comes with it.

I'm grateful to you Antlerman for the 'window' your words provide for 'looking' into your 'interior'!

Surely the continued mapping and conceptualization of our "interior spaces" will be one of the most important and fruitful areas of transpersonal research in the coming decades!

Many thanks!