Within a circle of one meter
You sit, pray and sing.
Within a shelter ten meters large
You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby
With a field a hundred meters large
Raise rice and goats.
Within a valley a thousand meters large
Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables, and Amanitas.
Within a forest ten kilometers large
Play with raccoons, hawks,
Poison snakes and butterflies.
Mountainous country Shinano
A hundred kilometers large
Where someone lives leisurely, they say.
Within a circle ten thousand kilometers large
Go to see the southern coral reef in summer
Or winter drifting ices in the sea of Okhotsk
Within a circle ten thousand kilometers large
Walking somewhere on the earth.
Within a circle a hundred thousand kilometers large
Swimming in the sea of shooting stars.
Within a circle a million kilometers large
Upon the spaced-out yellow mustard blossoms
The moon in the east, the sun west.
Within a circle ten billion kilometers large
Pop far out of the solar system mandala.
Within a circle ten thousand light years large
The galaxy full blooming in spring.
Within a circle one billion light years large
Andromeda is melting away into snowing cherry flowers.
Now within a circle ten billion light years large
All thoughts of time, space are burnt away
There again you sit, pray and sing
You sit, pray and sing.
Nanao Sakaki was born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1922. His work as an environmentalist, poet and writer is well known throughout the world. As you can see from this poem the measurement of distance is an external reality that creates illusions that become facts. My beliefs carry me to the corners of the universe and I experience a taste of no distance in this process of discovery. I can sit, pray and sing in a closed space or in the eternity of light years I imagine as real.
The concept of measurement is a restriction as well as a tool. I find my self measuring everything right down to the time it takes to blink. My conscious mind, the portion of my inner consciousness, meets physical life and translates it into day to day living. I don’t hold data that is not what I consider physical reality in my conscious mind but it is always available when I choose to access it. Because I’m focused on corporeal reality I ignore some non-physical data that lies within any given field of perception.
Sakaki is explaining that fact by using the tool of measurement. My human form is always concentrating on certain physical data and excluding other data that is non-physical because my beliefs restrict that data from manifesting. Sakaki tells me measurement is unnecessary for I always have the ability to sit, pray and sing if I allow my inner consciousness to operate through my conscious mind. Ten billion light years is the same as one meter in the reality of inner consciousness.
The point of all of this measurement is for my development and expansion. As consciousness I am connected to my inner self and it brings about the constant state of behavior I call conscious awareness. That awareness expands as I allow my belief system to accept other aspects of my self that are not physical. My physical body is alive and I experience this life as a translation of spirit into flesh, but my conscious self is the tool for assessing my body condition as well as the state of my human reality.
So I can change my body and my reality by changing my beliefs. If I sit and pray and sing my thoughts towards well being I experience it, regardless of the external measurement of time. Ten billion light years from now I will still be sitting, praying and singing the song of inner consciousness. I will be just a blink away from twenty billion light years where I am aware of another song, another prayer and the comfort of sitting in the essence of unmeasured connected energy.
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