One letter carries three, and at first they look incompatible.
O is the letter that turns MUSE into MOUSE. Own. The ring drawn from the inside, fencing mine from not mine.
Widen that same circle to its limit and it closes around everything at once. The Omniverse — the largest possible owning. Adi Da Samraj named it, humorously, the divine self-contraction.
Let the circle go and what remains has no circumference to defend and no centre defending it. The circle that was never broken, because it was never drawn.
A circle does one of two things. It closes around something, or it simply is.
The cosmic O is the mouse's O at full extension. Same ring, widened until it holds the totality.
The O does not change. The holding does.
O — the complete sphere, the wholeness, the all.
M — the pulse within it and radiating from it.
Chanting OM voices the structure of existence: the totality, pulsing with life.
The bright sphere is not somewhere to get to. It is what already is.
These pages are drawn from The Way of the Muse — Volume I, O: The Omniverse, and Volume III, the three readings of O.
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