Awakening

Or

Birth of consciousness

The infant (read: consciousness) emerges into (an ‘other’) reality, like a chick from an egg. It responds to that reality (to the ‘other’) with its maximum initial state capacity but no data base, hence cannot relativise that reality, consequently is overwhelmed. The impact of that reality is total and pure (not contaminated by local data), therefore absolutely real and perfect. At the moment of awakening (read: samma-sambodhi) observer and observed are (merged) as one.

The initial impact with the (random) ‘other’ is not only absolutely real but also perfect because the infant (or non-relativised, because wholly concentrated consciousness) has not yet developed the capacity, indeed reflex to relativise the (differential) impact. Such total ‘seeing’ is eyeless. Such total (i.e. @1) experiencing is undifferentiated ‘being’. The after-affect of eyeless seeing, or of direct, @1 realization/being, releases a tsunami of energy, often felt as enlightenment and self-interpreted as (the reward of) boundless, i.e. overwhelming rapture.

It’s this initial state (i.e. the STATE of absolute perfection before states of imperfection) response (elsewhere called the beginner’s mind state at awakening) that is sought by adept meditators, indeed by all humans. Everyone (some more than others) is driven, consciously or unconsciously, to experience THE moment of total realness and perfection, hence absolute one-ness prior to time, space and form. And they seek to be imprinted (like the child at birth) by that perfect moment in order to retain the experience of perfection until death.

The experience of total realness and perfection, plus the surge of energy, actually happens from moment to moment but is, because so minute as impact, rarely experienced in full consciousness. It’s like winning the lottery. You can win €1 or €1.000.000. The winning experience is the same for both wins but, obviously, winning €1.000.000 has a bigger impact.

The initial state experience of absolute realness in perfection, indeed, of absoluteness, is called the deathless (Sanskrit: amata or amara) state because it happens prior to relativity, and therefore to imperfection, corruption and decay (read: sin).

The rotting fist represents yesterday’s decaying world of relativity, hence imperfect fiction. The infant’s experience represents tomorrow’s unfulfilled promise of the attainment of absolute, hence perfect fact…. and which the infant is later driven to create (or die in the process. See … The Finger).