The Place of Being
Edited extract from the Gold Coast Talk 9 April 1995
If you close the eyes and the intelligence, which is the perception, is focused for the most part inside you, in the black, you’ll go into nothing, where there is no feeling and no thought is necessary. But there’s a knowledge: This is right. You could say, ‘It’s good.’ It’s a knowledge of stillness, of peace, of fulfilment, of relief - a knowledge of all those things wrapped into one. You just rest in that knowledge and then it disappears because there’s no thought in it.
The longer and the more often I can do this, the more I rediscover what I am - for this is me. I’ve only lost sight of me because I have identified with my self - my feelings and thoughts. They’re not really me. So I go under them. I go deeper into me and I discover this extraordinary place - very still, very silent. It’s black. Or nothing. It’s a place without position. It’s the place of being. The state of being is sufficient.
Possessed by Emotion