Genesis

On this occasion of Christmas 2015, I would like to post, both on the blog and on my facebook page, this beautiful representation of the genesis of the world, although I lost the reference to the text from which I obtained it! I think it's Taoist or from the School of Complete Reality or Ch'an. 

Only the last sentence, in green, is mine.

1 In the beginning, Shen rested in Absolute Nothingness. His sleep had lasted an eternity. Then, suddenly, no one knows why, during the night he had a dream, his first dream. In him swelled an immense desire for something. And he dreamed of Light. 

This was the first dream, the very first Way. 

For a long time the Light sought its fulfillment, its ecstasy. When the Light finally found it.

She saw that it was transparent. And transparency reigned.

2 But then, in turn, after exploring all the colorful games imaginable, transparency was filled with the desire for something else. She in turn had a dream. She that was so light dreamed of being  heavy. Then the stone appeared. 

And this was the second dream, the second Way. 

For a long, long time the stone sought its fulfillment, its ecstasy. When he finally found it, he saw it was the crystal. 

And the crystal reigned.

3 But, in turn, the crystal, after exploring the games of his luminous innumerable geometric compositions, was filled with the desire for something that went beyond himself. In turn he began to dream. He was so solemn, so regular, so upright, so hard...he dreamed of the softness, the tenderness and the fragility. Then appeared the flower. And this was the third dream, the third Way. 

And the flower reigned.

4 For a long, long time the flower, this sensual scented wonder, sought its fulfillment, its ecstasy. He too had a dream. He dreamed of a tree. And the tree ruled the world. But you know how trees are. They play all day with the wind, heads in the clouds, continuously dreaming. In turn, the tree had a strange dream: he that was so rooted in the earth dreamed of freely walking the earth, like a vagabond. 

And then appeared the worm. And the worm reigned. 

And this was the fourth dream, the fourth Way.

5 For a long, long time the worm sought its fulfillment, its ecstasy. In his search, from time to time, he took on the shape of a hedgehog, an eagle, a tiger, a snake. For a long time he tried forms without ever being satisfied. Then, one beautiful day, suddenly, in the middle of the ocean, a strange occurrence happened, in which all forms of land animals found their fulfillment. 

It was the whale. And the whale reigned.

And all would have ended there, because it was all very beautiful. But the whale, this mountain of meat and music, after singing for moons and moons and having explored all the seas in turn, was filled with a mad desire. She that lived fused with the world, dreamed of breaking away.

Then, abruptly, suddenly, Man appeared.

Because we are the fifth dream, the fifth Way, marching towards the fifth fulfillment, the fifth ecstasy.

6 But humankind, what do they dream of? What is their "fulfillment", their "ecstasy"? 

Human beings dream of Realization; this is their dream, the ultimate Way. 

And we are here on this planet, in this skin, in this fifteenth Christmas of the millennium, at this time, to make sure that our dream, the dream of all human beings, becomes a reality.

Pino