28 Nov Rest in essence
Beyond the six senses of perception: smell, taste, vision, touch, hearing, cognition, and our capacity to be neurotically absorbed in how we put it all together there is something else.
When we untangle ourselves from those states we experience a freedom.
It’s a resting.
We yield into something that holds and contains at the same time as it expands and releases.
It’s what exists within, throughout, and around those confused states.
We experience it as coming home to ourselves. Resting within and without at the same time.
It’s an experience of basic goodness.
A rightness.
Providing a sense of contentment.
The classical metaphor is exploring the projector which projects onto a screen. Within the projector is a bulb that lights the film that shines images onto the screen.
But take time to explore what’s behind the bulb.
Powering the projector, lighting the bulb is the electricity that flows allowing it all to work.
What in you is that energy?
What if you were to rest in that clear, illuminating energy and allow it to flow freely? Flowing in and around whatever fears, blocks, and resistances come up like water around boulders in the stream…..