SPACE

 

                                                         SPACE SOUND

                        JUST AS NO SOUND CAN EXIST WITHOUT SILENCE, NOTHING CAN EXIST WITHOUT NO-THING, WITHOUT THE EMPTY SPACE THAT ENABLES IT TO BE, EVERY PHYSICAL OBJECT OR BODY HAS COME OUT OF NOTHING, IS SURROUNDED BY NOTHING, AND WILL EVENTUALLY RETURN TO NOTHING. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT EVEN INSIDE EVERY PHYSICAL BODY THERE IS FAR MORE "NOTHING" THAN "SOMETHING". PHYSICISTS TELL US THAT THE SOLIDITY OF MATTER IS AN ILLUSION. EVEN SEEMINGLY SOLID MATTER, INCLUDING YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, IS NEARLY TOO PERCENT EMPTY SPACE - SO VAST ARE THE DISTANCES BETWEEN THE ATOMS COMPARED TO THEIR SIZE. WHAT IS MORE, EVEN INSIDE EVERY ATOM THERE IS MOSTLY EMPTY SPACE. WHAT IS LEFT IS MORE LIKE A VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY THAN PARTICLES OF SOLID MATTER, MORE LIKE A MUSICAL NOTE. BUDDHISTS HAVE KNOW THAT FOR OVER 2,500 YEARS. "FORM IS EMPTINESS, EMPTINESS IS FORM". STATES THE HEART SUTRA, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN ANCIENT BUDHIST TEXTS.  THE ESSENCE OF ALL THINGS IS EMPTINESS.

                    THE UNMANISFESTED IS NOT ONLY PRESENT IN THIS WORLD AS SILENCE, IT ALSO PERVADES THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE AS SPACE - FORM WITHIN AND WITHOUT. THIS IS JUST AS EASY TO MISS AS SILENCE. EVERYBODY PAYS ATTENTION TO THE THINGS IN SPACE, BUT WHO PAYS ATTENTION TO SPACE ITSELF?

               YOU SEEM TO BE IMPLYING THAT "EMPTINESS" OR "NOTHING" IS NOT JUST NOTHING, THAT THERE IS SOME MYSTERIOUS QUALITY TO IT. WHAT IS THIS NOTHING?

                YOU CANNOT ASK SUCH A QUESTION. YOUR MIND IS TRYING TO MAKE NOTHING INOT SOMETHING. THE MOMENT YOU MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING, YOU HAVE MISSED IT. NOTHING - SPACE - IS THE APPEARANCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED AS AN EXTERNALIZED PHENOMENON IN A SENSE-PERCEIVED WORLD. THAT'S ABOUT AS MUCH AS ONE CAN SAY ABOUT IT, AND EVEN THAT IS A KIND OF PARADOX. IT CANNOT BECOME AN OBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE. YOU CAN'T DO A PH.D. ON "NOTHING". WHEN SCIENTISTS STUDY SPACE, THEY USUALLY MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING AND THEREBY MISS ITS ESSENCE ENTIRELY. NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE LATEST THEORY IS THAT SPACE ISN'T EMPTY AT ALL, THAT IT IS FILLED WITH SOME SUBSTANCE. ONCE YOU HAVE A THEORY, IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO FIND EVIDENCE TO SUBSTANTIATE IT, AT LEAST UNTIL SOME OTHER THEORY COMES ALONG.

                 "NOTHING" CAN ONLY BECOME A PORTAL INTO THE UNMANIFESTED FOR YOU IF YOU DON'T TRY TO GRASP OR UNDERSTAND IT.

                ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE?

                 NOT AT ALL. I AM GIVING YOU POINTERS TO SHOW YOU HOW YOU CAN BRING THE DIMENTION OF THE UNMANIFESTED INTO YOUR LIFE. WE ARE NOT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT. THRE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND.

                SPACE HAS NO "EXISTENCE". "TO EXIST" LITERALLY MEANS "TO STAND OUT". YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND SPACE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T STAND OUT. ALTHOUGH IN ITSELF IT HAS NO EXISTENCE, IT ENABLES EVERYTHING ELSE TO EXIST. SILENCE HAS NO EXISTENCE, IT ENABLES EVERYTHING ELSE TO EXIST. SILENCE HAS NO EXISTENCE EITHER, NOR DOES THE UNMANIFESTED.

                SO WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM THE OBJECTS IN SPACE AND BECOME AWARE OF SPACE ITSELF? WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THIS ROOM? THE FURNITURE, PICTURES, AND SO ON ARE IN THE ROOM, BUT THEY ARE NOT THE ROOM. THE FLOOR, WALLS, AND CEILING DEFINE THE BOUNDARY OF THE ROOM, BUT THEY ARE NOT THE ROOM EITHER. SO WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE ROOM? SPACE, OF COURSE, EMPTY SPACE. THERE WOULD BE A "ROOM" WITHOUT IT. SINCE SPACE IS "NOTHING". WE CAN SAY THAT WHAT IS NOR THERE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT IS THERE. SO BECOME AWARE OF THE SPACE THAT IS ALL AROUND YOU. DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. FEEL IT, IT WERE. PAY ATTENTION TO "NOTHING".

               AS YOU DO THAT, A SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS TAKES PLACE INSIDE YOU. HERE IS WHY. THE INNER EQUIVALENT TO OBJECTS IN SPACE SUCH AS FURNITURE, WALLS, AND SO ON ARE YOUR OBJECTS, THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, AND THE OBJECTS OF THE SENSES. AND THE INNER EQUIVALENT OF SPACE IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT ENABLES YOUR MIND OBJECTS TO BE, JUST AS SPACE ALLOWS ALL THINGS TO BE. SO IF YOU WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM THINGS - OBJECTS IN SPACE - YOU AUTOMATICALLY WITHDRAW ATTENTION FROM YOUR MIND OBJECTS AS WELL. IN OTHER WORDS.YOU CANNOT THINK AND BEWARE OF SPACE - OR OF SILENCE, FOR THAT MATTER. BY BECOMING AWARE OF THE EMPTY SPACE AROUND YOU, YOU SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOME AWARE OF THE SPACE OF NO-MIND, OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, THE UNMANIFESTED. THIS IS HOW THE CONTEMPLATION OF SPACE CAN BECOME A PORTAL FOR YOU.

                 SPACE AND SILENCE ARE TWO ASPECTS OF THE SAME THING, THE SAME NOTHING. THEY ARE AN EXTERNALIZATION OF INNER SPACE AND INNER SILENCE, WHICH IS STILLNESS, THE INFINITELY CREATIVE WOMB OF ALL EXISTENCE. MOST HUMANS ARE COMPLETELY UNCONSCIOUS OF THIS DIMENSION. THERE IS NO INNER SPACE, NO STILLNESS. THEY ARE OUT OF BALANCE. IN OTHER WORDS THEY KNOW THE WORLD, OR THINK THEY DO, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW GOD. THEY IDENTIFY EXCLUSIVELY WITH THEIR OWN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FORM, UNCONSCIOUS OF ESSENCE. AND  BECAUSE EVERY FORM IS HIGHLY UNSTABLE,THEY LIVE IN FEAR. THIS FEAR CAUSES A DEEP MISPERCEPTION OF THEMSELVES AND OF THEM HUMANS, A DISTORTION IN THEIR VISION OF THE WORLD.

               IF SOME COSMIC CONVULSION BROUGHT ABOUT THE END OF OUR WORLD, THE UNMANIFESTED WOULD REMAIN TOTALLY UNAFFECTED BY THIS, A COURSE IN MIRACLES EXPRESSESS THIS TRUTH POIGNANTLY. "NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED. NOTHING UNREAL EXISTS. HEREIN LIES THE PEACE OF GOD".

              IF YOU REMAIN IN CONSCIOUS CONNECTION WITH THE UNMANIFESTED, YOU VALUE, LOVE, AND DEEPLY RESPECT THE MANIFESTED AND EVERY LIFE FORM IN IT AN EXPRESSION OF THE ONE LIFE BEYOND FORM. YOU ALSO KNOW THAT EVERY FORM IS DESTINED TO DISSOLVE AGAIN AND THAT ULTIMATELY NOTHING OUT HERE MATTERS ALL THAT MUCH. YOU HAVE "OVERCOME THE WORLD", IN THE WORDS OF JESUS OR, AS THE BUDDHA PUT IT, HAVE "CROSSED OVER TO THE OTHER SHORE."

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