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Taking a Peek: Viewing the void
Part III
The diagram can be easily misinterpreted. One would think, having reached such a state that one was in the void but this is not the case. The above represents a deep state of meditation but ...
… Figure 2.9 has an outside, has an outside which is filled with ‘something’ most of us don’t give any thought to as we step into meditation. Figure 2.9 is enclosed by ‘expectation’. Expectation is a state of meditation entered into preceded by the hopes, desires, and expectation of finding ‘something’ within region 4.
Meditation filled with expectations is sometimes referred to as ‘waiting for’.
Moving into a state of meditation with an ‘expectation to receive or to find’ is not a true state of mediation.
If and when one learns to truly step into the void, truly step into nothingness, truly step into region 4, leave behind all three levels/regions as well as leave behind all expectations, leave behind the state of ‘waiting for’ then one has the potential to ‘find’ one’s true essence. Truly stepping into region 4 appears as:
Taking a Peek: Viewing the void
Part III
The diagram can be easily misinterpreted. One would think, having reached such a state that one was in the void but this is not the case. The above represents a deep state of meditation but ...
… Figure 2.9 has an outside, has an outside which is filled with ‘something’ most of us don’t give any thought to as we step into meditation. Figure 2.9 is enclosed by ‘expectation’. Expectation is a state of meditation entered into preceded by the hopes, desires, and expectation of finding ‘something’ within region 4.
Meditation filled with expectations is sometimes referred to as ‘waiting for’.
Moving into a state of meditation with an ‘expectation to receive or to find’ is not a true state of mediation.
If and when one learns to truly step into the void, truly step into nothingness, truly step into region 4, leave behind all three levels/regions as well as leave behind all expectations, leave behind the state of ‘waiting for’ then one has the potential to ‘find’ one’s true essence. Truly stepping into region 4 appears as:
One is sure to notice there are no apparent bridges ‘into’ level 4. The bridge exists as a process. The process is one of balancing the three regions of physical desires, emotional feelings and mental thoughts followed by quieting all three.
The concept of gaining entrance into region 4 through a ‘process’ is no different than walking the bridge from the region of the emotional into the region of the mental. Moving from the emotional to the mental involves a process of quieting the emotional and then stepping into the mental.
Being completely immersed within the void, surrounded in the infiniteness of pure nothingness is often experienced with breathtaking awe and sometimes with great fear. If, however, one experiences either awe or fear one has not truly entered the void in its purity for fear and awe are elements of one’s level two, elements of emotion and as such one has carried an aspect of one’s emotional self/level 2 with one as one entered the void.
The silence/void is only pure silence if one has carried no elements of levels one, two and/or three with them as one allows the silence to envelop one’s self.
The concept of gaining entrance into region 4 through a ‘process’ is no different than walking the bridge from the region of the emotional into the region of the mental. Moving from the emotional to the mental involves a process of quieting the emotional and then stepping into the mental.
Being completely immersed within the void, surrounded in the infiniteness of pure nothingness is often experienced with breathtaking awe and sometimes with great fear. If, however, one experiences either awe or fear one has not truly entered the void in its purity for fear and awe are elements of one’s level two, elements of emotion and as such one has carried an aspect of one’s emotional self/level 2 with one as one entered the void.
The silence/void is only pure silence if one has carried no elements of levels one, two and/or three with them as one allows the silence to envelop one’s self.
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