03-16-2012, 03:21 AM
(03-16-2012, 01:00 AM)Bang Kaew Wrote: Quote;
Quote:Why is it, my friends, that when it is noon, you think about what you shall do from noon ‘til one and at one you think of what you shall do in the afternoon? And even if you hear a noise or are disturbed, you do not think to yourself, “I wish to take this time out of time. I wish to take this moment with utter seriousness”? Why do you skate on the pond of your life, never plunging into the icy waters that protect sleepers from wake ones?
Does this mean we should live more in the now? I don't really understand why we would want to be protected from wake ones. Protect sleepers, does that mean we should embrace the trance, sleep like state of the incarnation? Or to meditate deeper?
Ah... Q'uo and their poetic language. =)
In my understanding it definitely means that Q'uo advicing to live in the now. What they are saying is that we are constantly thinking about what to do next, instead of just becoming present in the moment of now.
My understanding of what they mean by "Why do you skate on the pond of your life, never plunging into the icy waters that protect sleepers from wake ones?" is that there is an ice-covered pond, around which there are icy waters. These waters are protecting the sleepers from the wake ones. If you punge into this water, you stop scating around on that pond and become awake. This is their beautiful and poetic language of saying something in the lines with: "Why are you walking around sleeping all your life, instead of awakening to the present moment of the now, and become one of those wakes ones?"
That's my take. If someone disagrees, please speak up.