Student & Guru 1

The Guru and the Student were sitting together in quiet contemplation, and the Student spoke up, saying, "I know we've covered this before, but I'm going to ask this question once again but with my new understanding behind the question."

The Guru whispered: "Go right ahead."

Student: "What am I?"

Guru: "You are That Which Creates nested within the perception of a local event."

Student: "Who am I?"

Guru: "Do you mean right this moment?"

Student: "Yes."

Guru: "You are That Which Creates and became a who by participating in the sound 'Yes.'"

Student: "And nothing more?"

Guru: "So much more you do not have the capacity to comprehend."

Student: "Why am I?"

Guru: "You are That Which Creates' desire for expression in apparent form, and you are your creation and your creation is you, of you, by you and for you."

Student: "What is the purpose of creation?"

Guru: "It has no purpose except to be participation in a vast and incomprehensible story."

Student: "Story? That might suggest that it's not real."

Guru: "Thou sayest," with a twinkle.

Student: "But if something has no purpose, it has no existence, leaving Nothing, or that which can't be reduced."

Guru: "Thou sayest once again, my young friend."

Student: "If this is a story...what IS all this?"

Guru: "It is simply the participatory act of imaginative creativity."

Student: "But why?"

Guru: "I think, therefore I create, a process that never, ever, stops. Without it, you have Nothing. And clearly you prefer something, or none of this..." the Guru indicated their surroundings, "...would be here."

Student: "But if there is but One True Thing, that which is created is one and the same as that which created it."

Guru: "Mmmmm."

Student: "What precedes Creation?"

Guru: "Desire."

Student: "What precedes desire?"

Guru: "Nothing."

Student: "So desire is cause?"

Guru: "Desire is the only cause, first cause."

Student: "How do I then create?"

Guru: "One, desire it; two, picture it; three, say, think and do as though it already exists. Desire, imagination and the ability to do are That Which Creates' trinity of primary attributes. If you can do these things, then you are God, or That Which Creates, and therefore are the Doer, the Doing, and the Done."

Student: "Let's just use the word God instead of That Which Creates, shall we? OK. So. Then I am not a co-creator with God, as all these New Agers like to say?"

Guru: "'Co-' implies two, does it not?"

Student: "I guess so."

Guru: "Are you unique in all the world and are able to serve two masters, when not even the Great Idea Jesus could serve two masters?"

Student: "No, nobody can serve two masters. So, if I AM God, then the act of creation could only be for giving, and implies that giver and receiver are one."

The Guru smiled a little. "'Receiver' implies there are two different beings involved, 'giver' and 'receiver', does it not?"

The Student's eyebrows raised with astonishment as realization overtook his expression. "So," he said quietly, chuckling to himself and shaking his head, "if creation is giving, and I AM the giver, and there is no receiver, then there is only giver, giving and that which is given. But if there is no receiver, then how does the object of my desire come into being?"

The Guru shrugged: "Simple acceptance."

Student: "Simple acceptance? That is all it is?"

Guru: "Yes, and of course you must act in some complementary or participatory way."

Student: "You said a minute ago that 'desire', 'thought' and 'doing' are God's primary attributes. I thought that Love is God's primary attribute."

Guru: "Let's play with it this way. Desire is fuel, thought is creativity, and doing is acceptance...those are attributes. Love has no attributes. It can't be reduced. So desire is an excitation point within limitless Love, imagination tells it what to be, and doing is the process of acceptance. So, put another way, Love is giving."

Student: "Ohhhhh, I get it, I think. I exist to desire, or maybe more like my desire is God's desire! If I am not, desire is not. Without me, desire does not exist! So desire has the creative - maybe a better word is creational - force built in! If there is desire, there is the power also within it to bring it about. I AM that power!"

The Guru smiled: "Well, we could be splitting hairs, but desire is the power, the fuel. If desire is cause, then acceptance is effect. Then it's merely a decision to be cause, and then a chain of doings and complementary decisions, like the domino effect, in order to accept the end result. And you are all the dominos. But when you are participation in all of these attributes, there is not so much cause and effect as there is the act of creating, which is the three attributes reduced to a simpler form."

Student: "But wait! If desire is the first cause, and Love is, I guess, the stuff from which it's all made, then didn't Love come first? Isn't Love the precedent?"

Guru: "'Cause' implies sequence, a series of events. In computer language, it's stated as, 'if this, then that.' There is nothing, then desire/cause, and as a result, something. Sequence implies something before and something after. If there is something before and something after, then beginning and ending are also implied. If beginning and ending are implied, then so also is the concept of existence as being finite. But as it is simply not possible for existence to be finite, then what is Love?"

Student: "The Infinite, Eternal Being. Existence itself - the circle of causes. That existence is, Love is. Love is the only thing that . . . just is."