Sunday, January 18, 2009

mental space and euphoria

With a billion stars in the sky, the vast space is still vacant, an infinite expanse. Can it ever be crowded? With countless thoughts in the mind, the mind’s space is likewise a vast and vacant expanse, which can never be crowded. Thoughts and images make it appear crowded. The space is apprehended when the thoughts and images settle down and are bypassed.
Let my mind expand in this vast empty space, ignoring any single thought, image, or memory of feeling that may appear in the expanse like a star in the sky. A sense of euphoria emerges now and then.
Reality and ecstasy:
The scriptures declare that the Reality, that is The Truth, is ecstatic, absolute ecstasy. But I cannot believe that the reverse is true. Any feeling of ecstasy, however absolute, will still be a feeling only and not Reality. Even in alert attention, in an empty mind, ecstasy can be at best only a sort of euphoria that can be confused for grace. It is in the realms of sensations and feelings may be the result of a still mind.

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