For Sunday February 2nd. 2014

Hello all, the old question, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" has an answer. No. 

The question isn't really referring to physical trees but rather to physical existence itself. Science shows that without observation potentials never resolve into being, nothing occurs. Now science does a great job of pointing out wondrous things for us to observe. But it has a great reluctance to look backwards at what is doing the observing. Certainly things exist without our physically being there to look at them, the backside of the moon for example, or the interior of the Sun. But something finer than our crude, fragile human bodies is at work here. It is something which we are intricately involved with and connected to, deeper than breath itself. 

May we sit this Sunday for that place where the physical falls away, the place known in some cultures as 'the void' or 'the no place' where the mystery of mysteries resides. May we sit for that reaching. May there be attainment.

Respectfully,

Richard