Transient, Sustained and Eternal

[Diana]

So I offer to you, think of how the transient and the eternal can be interwoven in love, for they long to be together, to work together and to exist in bonded unity. For the illusion-bound entity is seeking the mystery-clad being, and when they find each other infinity is revealed at last.

(Okay, I went a little beyond sound and music, but c'ie la vie.)

Your whole post above is so well thought out and eloquently put.

I have never thought focus on spirit while thinking the mundane (transient) is meaningless was a good idea. Why are we here? Why is anybody here? To me, it is all meaningful. The smallest event in one's life might be the largest step toward a greater awareness, a giant step along one's path. But that is not to say small steps or steps backward have less meaning. As in your music analogy, it is all part of an orchestration which evolves organically as each "instrument" plays, tunes, breaks out in a solo, leaves the band...

Ra's quote about not getting caught up in the maelstrom comes to mind. But that does not mean there is nothing here in this transient life that matters. As you said, the eternal and the transient work together, and it can be shown, as you also pointed out, that the transient are steps along the path—so how does one separate the path from the steps from the destination?

In this world, time is linear, and so we are used to separating moments out into points in a (life) line. The greater view of time is that the linear element is lost within an unfathomable, dynamic "soup" of oneness. Everything effects every other thing. There is no separation. There may be degrees of affectation depending on how transient something is, but it still has an effect.

I think, perhaps, it comes down to balance. Being aware of both the accountability and responsibility in the transience of this life, and the eternal nature of existence, without getting too caught up in either (in effect ignoring one or the other), is more in balance. Ignoring something is resisting it. Catalyst may be transient to varying degrees, but it all needs to be processed or it causes blockages, which affects the path, which affects existence.