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Void Meditation

  
 
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19:21 / 14.02.05
I posted this at Future Hi and I thought I'd post it here aswell :

An attempt to catch some of the Essence of Void Meditation :

Sat in the Lotus position with closed eyes and taking slow, deep breaths. The mind is still on the outer layers of consciousness. Thoughts are flowing through my head, some I cling to, some I don't. Scanning my body and one by one relaxing the parts that are still tense. Lower legs, stomach, shoulders, neck, jaw muscles, anything that needs loosening up. I pass to the next layer and relax further.

Now letting more thoughts go and checking my breathing again. Long, slow breaths, paying attention to the breath going in through the nose and down to the bottom of the lungs. It flows and swirls like a dance of energy, in and out, in, and out again. I move into a deeper state of mind. From here the unity is sensed that holds my body and connects it to the space around me. More subtle, soft light, holding me in place. Stiller now and more focused, shifting from thoughts and into purer perception. Seeing and not thinking. Feeling and not thinking. I pass further.

The grosser layers passed by, or unfolded, the body and mind begin to shift into a greater sense of Oneness. The inner nervous system the seeing organ as feeling catches swirling, pulsating energies, colours and shapes, flowing up and down and around the body. Where it was tingling in places and dull in others before, it now flows in waves. Wave after wave, and then it's just present. Attempts at explanation start to prove inadequate, and the reason why the onus is on experience becomes clear.

The waves of ether, molecules, light, patterns, now sometimes flow, sometimes not. Soft energy like a cool breeze and then clearness, movement then stillness, form and mind. Then deeper, and into the part where words go from inadequate to hardly enough to give a good enough description.

The gross and the subtle are one, each level of consciousness one, inner and outer one. Boundaries between the self and the outer world dissipate and are perceived for the illusions that they are as the mind randomly picks out the activity of the void with a heightened awareness. I'm not just my body anymore because at this point my body is nothing seperate from the surrounding area. Dimensions fuse and I begin to float in the void. Unity is attained, the sense of 'I' fades and ego is transcended. Reality is non-dual.

Here, the Huang Po doctrine of Universal Mind makes perfect sense :

"Men are afraid to forget their own minds, fearing to fall through the void with nothing on to which they can cling. They do not know that the void is not really the void but the realm of the Dharma".(1)


(1) Quote from The Way of Zen, by Alan Watts
 
 
Unconditional Love
11:28 / 15.02.05
the zen expression 'emptiness is form ,form is emptiness.' always helps me with this, i try to make myself aware of it in everyhting i do, especially everyday life. slowly but surely life can become a meditation through the technique of awareness, its an on going practice for me.
 
 
elkhart
10:45 / 04.03.05
I feel into this void space accidently but it greatly relieved my suffering emotions because they do not exist in the void, so I was in bliss and restfully gratefull for the peace and the break I needed from emotional suffering.

Somehow we are such a mystery that we still exist in a void state without emotions. Anyone needing a break from the element of fire which is quite maddening and turns the consciousness into liquid so that the ego camel can magically enter through the eye of a needle into other dimensions. Personally I believe it is the most ideal perspective position from which to witness life from a non dual space. If you can get there it transformes the suffering of severe depression into a introspective pleasant melancholy, and facilitates easier self learning and reframing.

This subject of the void is a new frontier for human consciousness to discover. As the Buddhists have difficulty getting a western mind to understand the idea of "EMPTINESS OF THE VOID" so our male orientated cultures have been mystified by the creative void of the Goddess. It has been so difficult for contemporary culture that it has even been left off the Kabbalah's ten locations because it is not an emenation like the rest but a black hole or void from which creation emenates and is beyond the abyss and very few ever experience it.The Kabbalah has 11 locations. At the OTO site it is included as DAATH meaning Knowledge in Hebrew and translated in Greek as GNOSIS.

The void also has something in common with the metals of Alchemy. The void is the zero point between the opposites of -1 and +1 the center of the dart board target. It has a parrallel in newly discovered matter. Consciousness has its link to matter in ORMUS is a recently discovered new element because it is also neutral. It is related to orgone and prana but more as the non crystaline form of the 11 metals and 11 mind spaces on the Kabbalah. Together all this corresponds to being a ladder which consciousness can ascend to find rest and peace.
 
  
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