Today's mini-awakening practice,
Inspired by the teacher Adyashanti,
Is called Nothing to Everything and Beyond.
The divine ground is unknown in three ways.
First,
It's numinous,
Or beyond all sense perception.
Second,
Because it's our essential nature,
There is no becoming apart from it,
So it can never be made an object of perception.
And third,
The divine ground is prior to the arising of self-reflective consciousness.
Being the source of everything,
The divine ground can only know itself as the total arising of all phenomena.
The divine ground relates to the world of phenomena as the limitless expression of its own creative ground.
To know the divine ground as our essential nature is to see that all phenomena share the same essential nature as we do,
And that we are all expressions of the same infinite ground of being.
This is not a denial of our humanity,
Or of the great diversity and uniqueness of all beings.
Rather,
It's an expression of the underlying unity of all of us,
Of existence.
It's this unity that expresses itself as the great flourishing and diversity of all beings.
So relax now into your breath,
Your breath down in your belly,
And notice that in your direct subjective experience of being,
There is not a someone or something looking out through your eyes,
Only an awake space of no thingness looking.
These are the eyes of emptiness.
When you close your eyes and look at the blackness within,
Notice that there is also no thing and no one who is looking.
There is only the looking itself,
And aware.
There's no need for fear here.
There's no cause to be afraid.
You're encountering your own true nature.
If you're very quiet now,
And very still,
As you listen deeply,
You may notice an inner sense of mystery,
Like a great unknown and unexplored space arising in the silent depths of experience.
This unknown dimension feels like a vast,
Infinite void,
Impenetrable,
Mysterious terrain.
No amount of effort can penetrate it.
No negotiations are received by it.
All knowledge must be abandoned.
For it to receive you,
You must become as empty of effort,
Of will,
Of self,
As you were before you were born.
Only a naked and pure heart meets this naked and unformed ground,
The birthplace of both gods and sentient beings.
Do not be afraid,
Love.
For this ground is no other than your deepest being.
It is the eyes and ears of eternity,
An ungraspable ground of your being.
As all self-seeking and self-concern dies away,
The infinite will be born anew and open its eyes in you,
At first for brief moments,
Like flashes of lightning in the night sky,
Later for hours,
Days,
Or weeks.
And still later,
The divine ground will remain awake all through all of the comings and goings of your life experience.
Remember that you do not so much look at reality as you look from reality.
Looking from reality,
The divine ground sees life as one continuous whole,
The unimaginable creative and destructive flourishing of infinite potential,
Out of which space and time are born.
From nothing to everything and beyond,
The entire cosmos is one infinitely small flash of potential.
And you are that potential coming to know itself.
At heart,
It's all incredibly simple and be not afraid,
Love,
This is who you are.
Be well,
My friend.
