Friday, April 19, 2013

Space And Stillness

It is an unfolding, a flowering.

Somedays it feels like it will never happen.

Like there is a dormancy.

But that is an illusion. The instrument is just dull.

Imagine that you have a seismometer that can only register earthquakes above 2.0 on the Richter scale. There are many vibrations within the earth, it is moving and changing, constantly alive, but your instrument is not reading anything.

It can only read extreme fluctuations in the earth.

Now imagine that you have an instrument that can read the entire Richter scale. You would be receiving constant feedback from the earth. You know every move that goes on within it.

Your instrument has become more sensitive, refined. Meditation is what brings the still awareness to the instrument of the body and its energy field. The more still and silent the mind, the more sensitive the instrument.

Now imagine that you have an instrument so sensitive that it registers a shockwave when a mote of dust lands on a table top.

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