Lack & The Ideal

In actual terms there may be two operational aspects of our movement and motivation in life. These can be seen as complementary (though not exclusively so). One of these is lack--which has been touched on in brief previously. The other operational aspect is the ideal. It is the the ideal that plays as answer to the question posed by lack.

If lack is the question, the opening, the empty--if absence is the void--then the ideal stands as the much-hoped for and anticipated answer to the open-ended question that lack presents us with. Absence is the Alpha and the Ideal is the Omega.

What is so ironic, is not that absence and lack stand as these empty and void realms that ought to be resisted and fought against with every stitch of our being, but that lack and absence --when embraced and conjoined with in a conscious manner--are literally the wellsprings from whence issue those novel and emergent solutions that sentient beings ache for the innumerable worlds over. Like was mentioned previously, lack becomes a primary impetus at the evolutionary level of being. The person who knows no lack knows no growth. The person who knows no deficit knows no development. The one who knows no absence knows not what the heart is fond of.

Jesus is reported to have put it similarly when he noted that, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.' For those who lack are blessed in the seeming poverty of their ignorance and incompleteness. As I heard someone once put it, the holes and cracks in us are where the Light pours through. Or, as Ramana Maharshi stated the same Truth, 'You will know in due course that your glory lies where you cease to exist.'

Our lack: Is it but one of the 84,000 Dharma-gates?