Have you ever tried to empty yourself of thought? It’s not easy to do since thoughts move through what we call our mind at an astounding rate.
There
are those in the Eastern regions of our world who are seemingly able in
meditation to empty their minds at will and then embrace the collective font of
awareness and become enlightened if just for a short time in personal
experience.
I’ve
tried it dozens of times and only get as far as leveling the pile of thoughts
to just the brim of my mind. I’ve tried to dump or release all the mental
images and clogging stuff that overflowed me at that moment, and just when I
thought I could shove all of it down a mental drain and become empty,
everything I thought I forgot welled up from the past: people, events,
promises, responsibilities, actions and fears, popped into the crucible of
thought and filled the mind again.
There
goes enlightenment, I think to myself.
And
then, as I try to empty the new thoughts that poured in, I have another
thought. I realize that emptying is a futile process and that emptiness of mind
or emptying the mind is an illusion that disguises the fact that we are already
enlightened. We just have to remember that we are.
My logic is that if All That Is created us
to experience the All-Self through the duality of existence as us, then we are
already enlightened by virtue of being part of All That Is. We just have to
remember we live with a cluttered creative mind, not within it.
My suggestion then
is for us to experience ourselves in the grandest vision we can imagine and see
what happens to the world. I image that wonder will be the result.
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