The Heart of Brother Wayne Teasdale's Vision of ... - Vision in Action

for the Father, the Father for the Son- God for man, man for God. The Holy Spiritexpresses and finally actualizes this longing. Spirit is the “daemon,” the “go-between”first desiring and finally uniting transcendence and immanence, immortal and mortal,man and God.Similarly, in non-dual Hinduism, Brahman, the Universal and Absolute Self andAtman, the individual self, seek to recognize and celebrate their Oneness. Again, Love ordesire serve as the catalyst and vehicle, mumukshutva, the longing for Liberation, in thejnani or Hindu contemplative paths and bhakti or devotion in the paths of the Heart.Finally, in Mahayana Buddhism, the longing of “transcendent emptiness” torelease and liberate all individual forms of “immanent emptiness” is realized through thecompassionate service of the boddhisatva ideal.The triune synthesis then of Christianity’s Father, Son and Holy Spirit,Hinduism’s Satchitananda, and Mahayana Buddhism’s transcendent and immanentemptiness through compassionate service happens in the integration of Being andAwareness within the Heart. In all three, individual Awareness longs for all-pervasiveBeing, and when realized through Love in the space of the Heart, universal, eternal andsupreme Bliss arises.Why is this experience so rare and unsustainable?All three traditions agree, when the focus is on individual desire and gratificationalone, there can be no real re-union nor perpetual fulfillment. In Christianity, selfishdesire and action lead to sin and irrevocable separation. In Hinduism, the ahamkara orindividual ego seeking self-gratification can never know the great Self and must,therefore, constantly return to taste yet more maya or illusion. In Buddhism, self-grasping17