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Cosmos and Dharma

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The Universe is an expression of Order. Your reading of these words is a proof of this. The synthesis of “Universe” and “Order” was called Cosmos by Pythagoras. In a moment of psychological triviality like the one we live in, the word “order” is quickly interpreted in mechanical terms, but the “Order of the Universe” is not the order that logical thinking builds in computing machines. The “Order of the Universe” is the “Order of Love and Compassion” and everything that does not flow with this Law fades into Nothingness. The Cosmos is an expression of Love, and we cannot limit this Love simply to its emotional dimension.

    When we refer the Cosmos to the Human Being we speak of Dharma. My ordered relationship with the Universe, my way of “being the Universe” is my Dharma, the loving dialogue of my Humanity with the Cosmos. It is a polyphonic dialogue, the Cosmos speaks to me with many voices and I respond with many others: all the psychological forces that constitute my Tripartite Soul. Some of these voices are reflected in my Intellectual Soul, particularly in my “Dual Thinking”, others are reflections of a non-dual intellect, or of my Emotional Soul, while many others, the voices of the deepest Volitional Soul, do not reach the surface of Existence that we call “Thinking”. My dialogue with the Cosmos is not a mental dialogue, and therefore it is not an egoic dialogue, or more precisely: the voice of the ego is faint, almost imperceptible in this intimate dialogue that I maintain with the Universe.

    What we call “body” goes beyond the mental-emotional image of dual nature with which we identify it. Our “body” is the Volitive Soul of the Cosmos, as are the subatomic particles, atoms, molecules and cells, and it expresses a Universal order, it is a microcosm only from a mental point of view, since it is the same and unique Ordered and Conscious Cosmos that manifests itself to our experience and beyond our experience.

    The entropy (disorder) and instability in our “individual-social” psyche occurs as a result of the contradictions produced by the dual image of the Universe that shows our rationality, always attentive to the urgency of individual life. But Life is not an individual-cultural issue. The human civilizations developed during the past on Earth are narrative scenarios for the expression of something that uses material forms as a screen on which to express “meaning.” The meaning is not in matter, since matter is itself another meaning, an expressive force of Consciousness in a Cosmic representation. Dharma is meaning, but it is not only meaning. The Dharma is an organ of the Human Soul for the perception of the worlds of meaning that belong to a different order from that of the isolated survival of the individual or the community. It is a part of the so-called “Heart”. Through Dharma we learn to read the Universe as a Cosmos of Beauty. And this is a reading and a dialog made from the place where duality and non-duality merge without mutual restrictions.



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Camila Londoño said…
Beautiful text, Oscar. I read it a couple of times and each time, I understood something new.
Something that is still unclear to me is the dual aspect of Dharma. If Dharma is what sustains the cosmic order, the eternal and inherent nature of reality, wouldn't that make it fully non-dual? From your text, I understand that the voice of the ego is not fully imperceptible in Dharma... why is that?
January 3, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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