The sound will dissipate. If you ring a bell or sound a gong you can in fact see this happening easily as it happens slowly. So, where does it go? Light a fire, let it go off. Where does it go?
It dissipates and is absorbed within our own environment or dimension? Maybe. Sound would seem likely to do that. What about light? What about thought? Doesn’t it in fact go to some place, a place that we cannot perhaps see? So a place where nothing exists, a place we cannot see, a place of nothing or nothingness? Fire before the fire and after the fire is a simile used by the Buddha to describe nothingness, a different dimension to ours.
Physics tell us that nothing is destroyed, it is only transformed from one state to another. And photons of light are absorbed by the surroundings. Physicists tell us that gravitational force is the weakest of the 4 forces, the other three being electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear, which could possibly be due to it falling on another dimension. Quantum physics also tell us that light may be both a particle and a wave at the same time. And so part of it maybe falling in other dimensions, out of ours, the Einsteinian space-time dimension. It maybe going somewhere as it can never be destroyed, but where ever it goes it is out of our periphery, our world, our dimension.
So it is there, and somewhere and no where – the place called Sunyata, which is a non-place, which is out of phenomena, a non-concept, a noumena. So says Buddhism. It is beyond dimension – the space-time dimension.
Everything is in this non-dimension. And yes, we can take it back to dimension. And it can come back to us like the echo of a voice.
Why can’t we see it? We can’t because we have taken things for granted and all of what we see are personal and misconceived. We have taken for granted what we see, when we see this holographic image before us as cast in stone, that the world is flat in our reality, where the surface is large. It is also the reality of the ant, that knows east and west or north and south but not of up and down. It is also our misconception that the ocean is a limitless place of abundance that seem to absorb all what we put in it, and so on.
When we make a statement or think a thought it is said, done, sealed, and delivered to the non-place. We cannot withdraw it. It will come back to us when the conditions are right. Yes, everything is there. It is a place of abundance. It has all, the good and the bad and the neither, and the nor-not, and in a place without, without of this description, of conception.
Since we cannot see the non-place we cannot take what we like and leave what we don’t. But, yes, we can do something. We can do something like catching the wave head-on or avoiding it. We can avoid it by positioning our self to do so.
If we position our self by doing good deeds, having good thoughts and indulging in good actions then we can make the path, or open the path, for good to come to us. Yes, all of have the potential to make an abundance of good to come to us or in other words connect to the abundance. Good deeds are the wholesome deeds, and wholesome deeds are the ones that are wholesome to us, beneficial to us, and bring us happiness.
The next time we have a quiet moment, perhaps in meditation, try reaching this place of nothingness. Shut your mouth – your speech of mind, and thought, lay still, do not make ruffles. Open your mind, allow yourself to settle in, go beyond the feelings you encounter – maybe physical pains or contentment and mental thrill, rapture and elation. Lie still, very still. Try reaching out to the place of nothingness. Experience it. See what happens. Just observe and do nothing.
We will not see anything but soon perhaps we will notice and hear something. We will hear a frequency, a noise like short-wave, just like in the radio.
Yes, you are hearing it. It is you. It is not tinitis, your ears are not playing tricks with you. It is the noise your mind is making, from its vibrations. It is the noise that it is making when you are at rest. It maybe high, it maybe low, depending on how fast your mind is working. For most of us it is an alpha wave length on the electroencephalograph.If we are able to slow ourselves down sufficiently than we will be able to experience something of nothingness. It is like jumping from one train to another. We have to make the faster train slower in order for you to get into the slower train.
And, now, finally, perhaps, we will begin to see it, see the non-place, feel the non-place, feel the matrix, that there is something out there in nowhere which actually is everything we are.
And, the next time we say or think of things be mindful that we are putting it out there, just like pining things on a board in front of us.
We can continue to see the picture in front of us, in our mind’s eye, it is a complete blank of nothingness, we observe and observe the frequency. The frequency we have depends on the thoughts we had and have. Now there is no image but just the sound. We settle in to this as a passive observer, making no inquiry making no statement. Observe and enjoy the show.
Our frequency is the frequency of our mind at rest. It is our inner self, our sub-conscious.
We will begin to see images. Some we may recognize. Most we may not. Some can be vague, some can be clear as being before us for real. This is you, from your past, what is embedded in your mental continuum.
The mind at rest, between two sensory thoughts is known as bhavanga in Theravada Buddhism. It is also what is known as the sub-conscious. Cognition involves arresting the bhavanga, and once the act of cognition is complete the mind falls back into bhavanga.
We can chose not to watch the show and go on beyond. We can allow the sub-conscious mind to lay before us its show just as the conscious mind did. We can observe and not participate, but let go. And then, soon we will come to a place of no thought, a place between two thoughts. Tibetan Buddhists call this place “rigpa” – the mind of pure awareness.
The more we take this route the more proficient we will become at finding our way. And the more we find our way the more we will see the way back, and back to the future.
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