Lessons from Meditation

I was started on a new meditation practice recently. 

While praying at someone else's house, I was given two lessons. This post is to share those. 

These ideas were rotating in my head for some time as plausible theories. On that day, they were completely clarified and explained. 

1. In physical entities, size is not always relevant to structure. Elements that have been juxtapositioned in a certain way will go on to form similar structures, irrespective of their physical size. This is true of atoms and of galaxies. 

The structure of atoms is a lot like the structure of galaxies. There are fringe electrons that rotate around the dense core. These fringe electrons are the first ones to participate in a bond, just as the fringes of galaxies are the first to merge. Likewise, all sun and planet systems, because they are juxtaposed in a certain way, will always take the structure of mostly oval orbits. This is irrespective of the size of the star and the relevant planets. 

2. All consciousness holds two levels of consciousness at all times - it is both an ecosystem and an individual entity. This is true of RBCs and the planet Earth, and everything in between. A cell is an ecosystem for all the intracellular elements. But it is a cell unto itself. Tissues are ecosystems to the cells, but also individual participants in an organ. Organs are ecosystems, but also individual organs acting as one. 

This, again, is independent of size. Even the tiniest known conscious element has sub elements. Just as we cannot aggregate the universe and say this is how big it is, we also cannot reach its smallest unit.