Thank you so much for this beautiful column. Even as I see myself in all three of these paths, I have recognized without words that I see myself quite often these last years in the pathless path. Even as I age and my body needs daily medical help and treatment, There is always this place or being when I am turned back toward it. I do find spending time in my gardens and the woods of my property support this relaxation. It seems quite beautiful and quite simple. I’m so grateful for this sub stack which enables me to read these words While I am also taking care of my body which these days take much more time.
No person can be God, though God is the sole reality of all apparent people.
No person can know God, though knowing is the sole reality of God.
To know God, the being of the apparent person must be surrendered.
The belief in the reality of the apparent person must be surrendered.
All apparent things must pass to make space for that which is the sole reality of all things to stand revealed in naked silence.
All objects, ideas, conceptions, perceptions, feelings, opinions, all apparent creation, must fall away.
It is the mind that must do this. And yet it cannot be done. The desire for its own dissolution must simply be recognized as the sole truth which the apparent person seeks, and the mind allowed to rest in that.
With all dissolved and the mind at rest, that which truly is moves as it does eternally, but there is no person there to distort our blossoming into ourself.
All paths arise in the One, and thus no path ever leaves the One. All paths begin in the one and all paths end in the One. Each of us is a path of the One to the One. And the One walks on all paths.
falling in love….sunlight on water…..the stillness in motion and the moving stillness…the green of my garden as the construction noises all around me grow in intensity….and mercifully subside…..arising and subsiding in the wonderful nothing that is everything.
“The Pathless Path is not a journey to your self. It is the end of the idea that a journey is required.” Yes! And yet I appear to be so challenged to fully understand and “grasp”…because of course it is not a thing that can be held.
Thank you so much for this beautiful column. Even as I see myself in all three of these paths, I have recognized without words that I see myself quite often these last years in the pathless path. Even as I age and my body needs daily medical help and treatment, There is always this place or being when I am turned back toward it. I do find spending time in my gardens and the woods of my property support this relaxation. It seems quite beautiful and quite simple. I’m so grateful for this sub stack which enables me to read these words While I am also taking care of my body which these days take much more time.
I look forward to reading more about each path. Beautiful descriptions of each, and I have found myself at times on each one.
No person can be God, though God is the sole reality of all apparent people.
No person can know God, though knowing is the sole reality of God.
To know God, the being of the apparent person must be surrendered.
The belief in the reality of the apparent person must be surrendered.
All apparent things must pass to make space for that which is the sole reality of all things to stand revealed in naked silence.
All objects, ideas, conceptions, perceptions, feelings, opinions, all apparent creation, must fall away.
It is the mind that must do this. And yet it cannot be done. The desire for its own dissolution must simply be recognized as the sole truth which the apparent person seeks, and the mind allowed to rest in that.
With all dissolved and the mind at rest, that which truly is moves as it does eternally, but there is no person there to distort our blossoming into ourself.
And we are free.
All paths arise in the One, and thus no path ever leaves the One. All paths begin in the one and all paths end in the One. Each of us is a path of the One to the One. And the One walks on all paths.
Thank you, Rupert, for this clear reminder.
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Merci.
falling in love….sunlight on water…..the stillness in motion and the moving stillness…the green of my garden as the construction noises all around me grow in intensity….and mercifully subside…..arising and subsiding in the wonderful nothing that is everything.
“The Pathless Path is not a journey to your self. It is the end of the idea that a journey is required.” Yes! And yet I appear to be so challenged to fully understand and “grasp”…because of course it is not a thing that can be held.