This World: Our Homeland? It seems that "this world" is where we are while "our true eternal homeland" is who we are. This is what our departed Demosthenes, Ray, is referring to when he asserts to be "in this world but not of it." Without shape or mass, pure attention is as a geometric point, a non-object contiguous with an immeasurable universe of universes that entirely encompasses "this world." At a timeless, non-spatial interstice between this, the truly sacred, and "this world," "so inherently full of vexations and suffering," is where love bids us stand, pointing toward wholeness out of compassion for the estranged and beleaguered part. This, as Jim might put it, is surely bodhisattva. (An excerpt from - Listening-I email list)