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Nay , that's just cock & bull ,,,,i'll tell you the real answer on christmas day...in the meantime have patience
In the spirit of Christmas and as promised , i'd like to tell a story :
Zero coalesces into One which spirals into Two and subsequently transform into a thousand things with the cyclical potential of Many to return to One again and expand to Zero.
Once upon a time there was Nothing . Pure no-conscious Spirit . A Nameless Formless Timeless Boundless Void . It had no mother. It had no father. There was also no chicken nor egg .
Then something stirred in the formless Void : a nebulous One starts to form within the Void , a self conscious Spirit . The One was lonely : in order to have company , it split in Two . This way, each side could be conscious of the other half and could therefore keep one another company …..it is called the Cosmic Yin-Yang Egg .
After some time , the Two wanted to have fun . So the one nebulous Spiritual Yin-Yang Egg , divided into a multitude of discrete spirits or souls to play…..a cosmic dance if you like .
This continuous cosmic theatre , plays on a multidimensional stage : it has breadth and depth associated with a cyclical and spiral nature respectively. Many wonderful aspects of life were also created subsequent to this moment: Heaven & Earth , space , time , gravity, language, the senses and life & death.
So broad , that it encompasses subatomic phenomena to beyond the spiraling arms of galaxies .
So deep , that it has many levels: the pure spirit ( no-mind or Tao or Zen ) realm , the mind realm , the energy realm and the physical realm . Its level has it’s own natural cyclical laws . To be able to exist & function at various levels , each soul becomes encapsulated with a corresponding coat or body or suit ( akin to scuba suit to exist underwater and spacesuit for astronauts) as it spirals down into the increasingly coarser lower realms : hence a spirit acquires a mind-suite , an energy-field and a physical body . We are spiritual beings having a physical experience . Chickens also are spiritual beings having an earthly experience.
Each species of sentient beings ( eg bacteria , chicken , human , titan , star , etc. ) have a corresponding specific blueprint-suit or template-suit at each realm . When two sex-less soul descends from the spirit realm to incarnate in the physical realm called Earth as the first woman & man ( ie Adam & Eve ) , these 2 souls will have a three layered suit ( mind-energy-physical) .Whilst humans have sex to reproduce , other beings like bacteriae multiply through binary fission and yet other beings like some haemaphroditic snails ( ie have male and female sex organs ) do asexual reproduction . Similarly , when a group of souls incarnate as the first brood of chickens ( ie hens and cockerels ) on earth , they too will acquire a multi-layered plumage of sorts . Obviously , after mating , a hen will lay eggs , which will hatch into more chickens . If a wild chicken looking for worms near a Shaolin monastery , happens to receive the grace of a resident meditating Buddha , the fowl may reincarnate as a Zen monk with the potential to return to the realm of No-Mind .
From Nothing comes One , then Two then a Thousand things .
From Nothing comes A supramundane Cosmic Egg , then chickens , then mundane eggs , then more chickens ( or omelletes ) , then …henceforth depending on The Law of Karma .From here, The One will be born again as a newer creation and begin the cyclical process all over again, a concept known as Reincarnation, or will achieve Enlightenment through the spiral nature of spiritual cultivation .
Such is the nature of things .
So back to the question : Which came first , the chicken or the egg ?
In the spirit of Christmas and as promised , i'd like to tell a story :
Zero coalesces into One which spirals into Two and subsequently transform into a thousand things with the cyclical potential of Many to return to One again and expand to Zero.
Once upon a time there was Nothing . Pure no-conscious Spirit . A Nameless Formless Timeless Boundless Void . It had no mother. It had no father. There was also no chicken nor egg...
Recently I read from Yogananda an answer that he gave when he was asked the following question: "Which came first: the tree or the seed?":
" The tree came first", the Master answered without hesitation, "as the idea of a deed precedes the deed itself. The tree was, in this way, a special creation. God, when He set the process in motion, gave the tree seeds that it might produce other trees like itself".
"Everything, at first," he added, "is an idea, a special creation".
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