The Key

The Key is awareness that is timeless and choiceless. It is not the result of an effort of will. It must come uninvited when the mind is occupied with its defined limitations.  The normal activities of life in which one is unaware will yield to that which is undefined and without limitation.  In the absolute moment the mind becomes aware of its disturbance, its neurosis.  If one is having a disagreement or one is troubled by events or one is just completing a job, it comes to you like a breeze in the evening.  An awareness that is totally selfless.  Complete peace washes over you.  You are totally free.

You cannot practice this moment into existence.  You must be occupied with the normal activities of the day.  That is why it comes uninvited.  A spontaneous original event that quiets the mind without the effort of self or the execution of thought.  It comes to you because you have been exposed to the reality of the absolute moment through that which is the illusion of self  (your conditioned consciousness).  Understanding that transcends all notions of belief and desire.  Attachment to the self and all its many different manifestations fall away like dead leaves.  And you realize the beauty and simplicity of a consciousness that is without time and without choice.

The Void

What do we mean by "The Void"?  All attempts at explaining or defining the void are not the void.
It cannot be known.  It is what it is not when the mind is occupied, but the opposite of the occupied is not the void.  It is freedom in its purest form.  Because not even the most adept and enlightened can realize its immensity, it cannot be taught.  The "Source" is enveloped in the "Void".  But neither can be sought after or even acknowledged as an existent entity.  For they do not exist as form.  They have no beginning or end.

The mind that is a stillness within and without "allows" the void.  In that stillness, that emptiness, one ceases to be an individuality.  There is only the undefined source.  The mind abhors a vacuum.  So it wants to be occupied, it wants to fill the void.  When the void is filled it is no longer the void.  It is the illusion of the transient.  It is the mind that is seeking the continuity of the known.

One cannot meditate one's self into the void.  Meditation implies an activity or inactivity of the self. The selfless enters the realm of the void spontaneously when the mind is quiet and aware only of an undefined emptiness.  At this level a person must be careful.  Because it is spontaneous, one should not be doing anything that requires physical agility.  (such as driving a car, etc.)  The mind can go completely blank and enter a state of complete and total stasis.  A person should understand that the void and the source are not separate entities to be understood sometime in the future.  They are beyond the human illusion of time.  There is never a duplication of effort that can bring about the void.  Once it is an experiencing, it can never be an experience to be sought after.  Because the mind is the illusion of a self that seeks repetition, that seeking is the minds creation that fills the void.

All this seems very esoteric.  But it is not at all new age or some secrete ancient ritual.  It is just the most simple of realizations that can occur if one has the passion. Not the passion of "doing" or "being", but the passion of unconditioned simplicity. By eliminating the psychological baggage that is our neurosis.