Looking Into Eternity

From the Gold Coast Talk 18 December 1993

Look into ‘me’, inside your body now. Relax. Be easy.

I close the eyes to gather more of the intelligent resource of perception. I look into 'me’ with clarity and I see nothing. And it is the truth that there’s nothing in me, for I am looking into the black emptiness that is nothing. I am looking into the actual life inside this body. The power of life is this black nothing.

I am looking into life before it takes form in my brain. There are no forms in me. They only appear when this life passes through the human brain and creates forms through the senses. This great black vastness, this void I am looking into, is certainly not empty, but it is emptied of any self and any thought.

This purifies my mind, as the Buddha discovered. The restlessness gradually ceases. When I look at nothing, I am looking at a mirror of stillness. And whenever I look into it I, the intelligence, become stiller and stiller until there is no difference between the nothing I’m looking at and the intelligence, which is then also nothing. I am in the state of being – beyond description but not beyond being.

Don’t think! Everything you think of comes out of the past. There is no past in this stillness. If you think, you can only think about what you’ve seen with your senses or read with your senses or heard in your senses. Please, do what is new and fresh and new every moment. Look into nothing, into 'me’.

What is life on earth? Is it not everything you can see, hear, taste, smell and imagine? Everything comes from your senses, your experience of life on earth. What happens when you lose your sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, feeling, balance, everything? Tonight when you go into deep dreamless sleep, where is the universe? It disappears and comes back every morning because it only exists as a sensory universe. Without the senses it does not exist. If you measure how far away the stars are, you’re just measuring your own mind, your own sense of reality. All sense comes out of your brain, a product of life on earth. If you lose your brain, there’s no life on earth. You’re born with a brain and life on earth gradually appears.The whole universe is a product of your brain. Ninety years and it all disappears.

Please address the reality inside the body hearing these words. Be still and know that I am God, rightness, presence, me – whatever word you like to use. Be still. This is the way home - to the beginning, to the moment before the Big Bang of theorising and thinking.

Look into me: the black, the still, the silent and the everlasting emptiedness. Look into the pre-existent state where there is no time; where everything is solved and all the answers are known by not having to be known. It’s called eternity.




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