If you sit quietly, you will notice you have a front and a back. To the front of you is the "external" world -- your arms and legs and body, the room or outdoors, the world of humans, the earth, the solar system, the universe -- extending beyond infinity. That is your front. All of this is your front.
Now notice your back, what is behind. Not the objects you may envision there if you turn around; that would be your front if you did so. Drop visions of an imagined front and attend to the you that is behind your front. It is a void, an abyss, an openness extending to infinity and beyond. This is the realm of the intranaut. This is inner space, the space behind your front. This vastness is where thought is born. Thoughts arise and disappear. Images form and dissipate. Emotions surge and vanish. Spiritual energy, the flow of the life force, moves through. The wellspring is here.
Infinity to the front of you. Infinity behind you. The you that you have been conditioned to think you are is the gateway between the two infinities. When you shut down and walk around as an individual with a social security number, as a skin bag of flesh and bone, the gate is closed. When you let go of that, you are a gateless gate and the two infinities merge as one.
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George,
ReplyDeleteWhew! That worked beautifully! The process you described opened the gate. Now that I am thinking of what to write, however, I am back in my skin bag of flesh and bones. Can we think and have the gate open at the same time, or is openness a function of a quiet mind?
Patrick
There is "thinking of what to write" by which one has separated oneself into parts and the gate is closed or only partly open. Then there is thinking arising and the fingers typing it as it arises -- the gate is open and one is both infinities at once -- in essence, one does not exist (no separate self).
ReplyDeleteGood morning George. thank you for this new blog of yours...i like the name. I understand what you are saying..the two merge as one. okay got it. but...for me i gotta shut down and walk around as an individual yet knowing i am one with everything...i haven't experienced this gateless gate...(unless i touch it with my out - of -reality episodes that i go through. Its very exhausting to be in the void or be where the gateless gate is...its very frightening. I ask you... Are You there Now?
ReplyDeleteThe gate is "never "closed.
ReplyDeleteThe gate is never closed. you can let go....but you better hold on....the silver cord? remember? got it? get it?
ReplyDelete"Or ever the silver cord be loosed" Ecclesiastes 12:6
ReplyDeleteDear George,
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Ecclesiastes 12.6-14
6before the silver cord is snapped,* and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, 7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath* returns to God who gave it. 8Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher;* all is vanity.
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and #5 says:
Ecclesiastes 12.1-5
12Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’; 2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with* the rain; 3on the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; 4when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; 5when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along* and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;
Thank you (((hugs)))
sad.
ReplyDeleteI know Jesus said better to be in the house of mourning than the house of rejoicing...or something like that? i forget...
ReplyDeletebut then Jesus did say...keep your chin up because your deliverance is drawing near....anyway...i could go on and on....LOL
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