Entering the void: A regionless region
Part I
The thought of entering the void appears to be a dilemma.
If one steps outside reality one and into the void, the void, being nothing, collapses leaving simply reality one or one could say reality one simply expands to fill the void.
Understanding the solution to the apparent dilemma comes easily if one can grasp the concept of reality being composed of two worlds.
The two worlds are not separate from each other as demonstrated in Fig. 3.7 …
Part I
The thought of entering the void appears to be a dilemma.
If one steps outside reality one and into the void, the void, being nothing, collapses leaving simply reality one or one could say reality one simply expands to fill the void.
Understanding the solution to the apparent dilemma comes easily if one can grasp the concept of reality being composed of two worlds.
The two worlds are not separate from each other as demonstrated in Fig. 3.7 …
… for in that case the question becomes what lies between the two worlds.
Rather the two worlds lie one within the other.
Reality one lies within reality two and the silence separates the two worlds, separates the two realities.
Rather the two worlds lie one within the other.
Reality one lies within reality two and the silence separates the two worlds, separates the two realities.
Ones true essence lies within the silence separating the two realities.
‘I begin to see that I live between two realities. On the one hand, there is the reality of my existence on the earth, which limits me in time and space, with all its threats and opportunities for satisfaction. On the other hand, there is the reality of being that is beyond this existence, a reality for which I have a nostalgia.’
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 135.
The understanding of one’s true essence lying within the silence does not imply one’s true essence is condemned to exist within the void for the free individual is just that: free to roam where they will.
‘I begin to see that I live between two realities. On the one hand, there is the reality of my existence on the earth, which limits me in time and space, with all its threats and opportunities for satisfaction. On the other hand, there is the reality of being that is beyond this existence, a reality for which I have a nostalgia.’
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 135.
The understanding of one’s true essence lying within the silence does not imply one’s true essence is condemned to exist within the void for the free individual is just that: free to roam where they will.
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