The Need for Space

As life progresses it becomes cluttered with the psychological baggage of a persons search for security and definition.  The result of this accumulation is a mind that often finds its self in the midst's of disorientation and  disintegration.  The process of thought or thinking is the process of division.  We separate what is the defined self from what is not part of the definition and the identity of the now "named" individual.  As such the self and the other becomes our very limited reality.  There is very little space in this reality.  Without space one cannot see and understand the illusion of a psychologically manufactured reality. It is a reality in which we are constantly seeking affirmation of who we think we  are and what we believe.

When we refer to space we are referring to a state of consciousness that is without the conditioning of past experience.  A Consciousness that is without word, therefore absent of a self that knows.
It is not necessarily a meditation, because meditation that has a goal or purpose is still part of a conditioned consciousness.  Space is a moment of clarity which sees through the self and its petty motivations.  You cannot create space, it is the spontaneous release of all of thoughts accumulations, of all of ones beliefs.  In this absolute moment there is no self, no other.  There is only space, the interval between two word thoughts.  If you can see in that moment without the one who sees then something may happen that will bring about a change.  It will be a change that is without a goal or a presentment.  It will have nothing to do with the self as a defined entity.  It remains as an undefined element of the unknown. 

Space brings about a different level of intelligence.  Notice I did not say higher level of intelligence.  It is all together different and cannot be measured or weighed.  Comparative analysis cannot define its boundaries.  The human mind is spiritually very primitive.  Because the mind is constantly dividing, comparing and choosing it becomes caught up in its own reality of illusionary beliefs.  Beliefs that lead one down the the path of confusion, contradiction, fear, and violence.  Most of humanity is still quite Simian in its quest for power and influence.  Most still look up at the night sky in superstitious wonderment trying to find a repetitive pattern that will tell them the future so that one can go to sleep in the present.  That's what beliefs do, they put you to sleep.  One is lulled by the words of the "High Priest" be he political or religious.  And those words fill your head with the nonsense of Authority, the one(s) who "know".  And so you worship the known, which is really just worship of the self.

But if one can be consciously aware (choicelessly aware) in the moment, then that will allow space to unfold.  In that space you will see the truth of freedom that is without motive or acquisition.  Freedom that cannot be ideologically captured and taught.  Freedom that is absent the known.