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 of 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 in
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. See, another thought!
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.
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