You Live in Two Worlds

Anyone who is paying attention notices that they are living in at least two worlds. One of these worlds is physical: the other is non-physical. Another way of saying this is that one world is visible whereas the other world is invisible. Yet another way of saying the same thing is that one world is a place of form and the other is a space of the formless. No doubt, there are probably many other words or terms that you might use to describe these two different worlds. But, no matter what words we use to describe these two different worlds, they will always be words which mean the opposite of each other. For the purposes of our discussion here, we are going to be using the words form and formless to describe these two different worlds.

So, it is obvious, and it goes without argument, that we live in a world of form. Everyone knows that. Everyone experiences this world of form through one's five physical senses. Nearly everyone takes these five physical senses for granted, and interprets what comes through those senses as reality. And some people go so far as to say that this world of form is the only reality. Their position is this: that if something cannot be perceived through the five physical senses then that something is not real. For such persons, there is only one world, a world of form. For them, there is no other world. The formless world of which I am about to speak does not exist for such individuals.

Now, for such individuals, their experience of their world is necessarily limited by definition. That is because form, by definition, is limited. So, accordingly, such individuals will live limited lives. They do, indeed, pay a very high price for their point of view of reality. The premium which they pay lies in the value of the unlimited reality that would be available to them in the other world, the formless world.

Let's now turn our attention to that other world, the formless world. This is a world which cannot be perceived through an individual's five physical senses. It is a world which exist beyond those five physical senses. Accordingly, individuals must use something other than the physical senses to perceive this nonphysical world. One must use what we will call non-physical senses. Just as we used our physical senses to arrive at our view of the physical world, we will use non-physical senses to arrive at a view of our nonphysical world.

The nonphysical senses that we are going to use are thought and feeling.. Certainly, both thought and feeling are nonphysical, and whereas it may be arguable whether or not these are senses, for the purposes of this discussion, we are going to exercise our freedom and power of choice to call them that.. After all, at this point in our discussion, we have actually entered into this other world and are now operating and basing all of our further discussion in, and out, of this formless world. This world, by definition, is unlimited. Plus, we are not limited here by anything. This means, of course, that we are not limited to our use and or choice of words. In this world, we rely upon our ability to understand and know things beyond the limits and meanings which we give to words, or anything else for that matter.

For nearly everyone, both thought and feeling , tell us that there is something beyond the world of form. Now, both thought and feeling exist in this formless world. Anything which exist is real. It follows then, that since thought and feeling exist, then thought and feeling are real. All individuals value what is real. In fact, they value what is real beyond anything else. Accordingly, it is appropriate and understandable that they value thought and feeling.

So, we have now arrived at a point where thought and feeling are telling us that there is a formless world. A formless world is a world without limit. In a world without limit, anything is possible. A world where anything is possible, is a world of unlimited choice and infinite potential. In a sense, it is a world in which anything which could possibly be desired already exist as possibility. You could correctly call such a world utopia or Nirvana. However, no matter what you choose to call it, it is, as we have seen here, a real world. A world as real as the other world of form which all individuals agree upon.

Finally, since you now know that you really exist and live in at least two worlds, you will naturally desire to know how you can integrate your experience of both of them at the same time. We can look at this together in another discussion devoted entirely towards that purpose as the joy that flows from such a practice yields incredible benefits.