The Tao of Wu

by The RZA

You learn more, you practice more, you gain more wisdom and enlightenment, and you might start thinking that you’re God himself. That’s because there is some truth to it. If you were to compare to God an ocean, you could say that each one of us has a drop of water in us. In one sense, the drop of water is not the ocean. It’s just a drop of water. It doesn’t have the magnitude of the ocean itself. But on the other hand, in that one drop of water, you can find the vastness, the magnitude of the ocean. So in that sense, you are the ocean. Digital life proves this. From one bit of a digital image or song, you can reproduce the entire thing. It’s the same with DNA. From one strand of DNA, you can clone the whole organism. It’s the same with God. From that one drop of water within us, we are, in a sense, the ocean. But never overlook the power of the ocean itself. There’s a beginning and an end to what we do because of physical bodies. God is eternal. You will return to him, he’s not returning to you. All water in this world goes back to the ocean—it gets drawn up into the sky and goes back to the sea. It’s like what Rumi said: “In order for you to become the ocean, you have to drown.” If you’re swimming, you’re not truly it. You have to drown yourself.

In the sense that our souls are a home for God. If we prepare out temples for God properly then we can certainly absorb God’s life into ours but that doesn’t mean we are or become God ourselves. We don’t become the ocean by swimming in it or consuming it. We may become part of the ocean once we give ourselves entirely over to it for all of the rest of whatever time is. However, so long as we are alive and have the choices to stray from God then we cannot be a part of God. Not until our souls/energies are absorbed back into the energy/soul of God so we become permanently part of the Body of Christ. Even then, we are not uniquely God in our own selves. the vastness of the entire ocean is God. Our drop alone if separated from the Body cannot be a God into itself. and a God without its own unique force/power can’t really be considered God at all. No matter the power we might be able to attain it comes from God from his own source and not from within our own selves. it is okay to humble ourselves to this realization.