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.
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.
posted by iconoclasticbuddha @ 9:43 PM
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