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| silence of emptiness |
There is one thing, one very important skill, which is of crucial importance on the Path to Freedom, in my opinion.
Without it, things just get foggy, unclear and progress in dreaming and in real life as well is limited.
"We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk.Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die.A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk."- Don Juan
It is not just about stopping the flow of thoughts. That's the first step, yes, maybe. But that's not enough.
What really does the trick and yields a profound change in the state of consciousness is de-identification from those abstract and innermost notions that are so integrated into our awareness that we don't even notice.
It is not enough to just stop the inner flow of subtle perception based on the dichotomy between awareness and content of awareness either, as this can be done on many levels.
And here we are way beyond the reach of any kind of energy (low astral energy, dark energy from djinn/demons, elemental energy or any other energy). One can have tons of energy and can learn to manipulate the perception in every which way, and still be a prisoner of these innermost identifications.
That's what happened to some of the old sorcerers from the Don Juan Lineage, didn't it. They were masters of energy manipulation and yet unable to progress beyond mere low astral level realms. Obviously, something went seriously wrong in their practice.
Enormous amounts of life energy and awareness energy are being spent just to uphold the self-designated meaning to the content of our own awareness.
We can call that self-importance, self-pity, victim-mentality, indulgence, a quest for power and immortality, complacency, ignorance, attachments or aversion.
The thing is that whatever we do with the content of our awareness and however we manipulate energy, all of this and everything any human or any other being can ever think of or experience, is, has been and forever will be, empty.
No need to raise stormy waves in perfectly calm weather on a completely placid lake of our awareness.
It is not enough to just stop the inner flow of subtle perception based on the dichotomy between awareness and content of awareness either, as this can be done on many levels.
And here we are way beyond the reach of any kind of energy (low astral energy, dark energy from djinn/demons, elemental energy or any other energy). One can have tons of energy and can learn to manipulate the perception in every which way, and still be a prisoner of these innermost identifications.
That's what happened to some of the old sorcerers from the Don Juan Lineage, didn't it. They were masters of energy manipulation and yet unable to progress beyond mere low astral level realms. Obviously, something went seriously wrong in their practice.
Enormous amounts of life energy and awareness energy are being spent just to uphold the self-designated meaning to the content of our own awareness.
We can call that self-importance, self-pity, victim-mentality, indulgence, a quest for power and immortality, complacency, ignorance, attachments or aversion.
The thing is that whatever we do with the content of our awareness and however we manipulate energy, all of this and everything any human or any other being can ever think of or experience, is, has been and forever will be, empty.
No need to raise stormy waves in perfectly calm weather on a completely placid lake of our awareness.
And the Silence Within does just that: liberates perception into simple, natural and unlimited space-like awareness which is far beyond all types of energy and all thoughts.
