The practice of being absolutely nothing inwardly. Not as a state created or captured — but as something realized. The discovery that in true nothingness, the very essence of life itself is found.
In the nothingness, Truth is experienced — not as a thing, not as a concept, but as the very essence of life itself. It is a nothingness that is full of life. An emptiness that is totally alive and luminous. A stillness that is living and present. Completely nothing — without form, without movement, without activity, without boundary.
To arrive at this is to not take shape with anything perceivable or known. Knowledge is useless here. Anything known is not nothingness — it is still something, still perceived, still a form. So the movement is to let go of identifying with anything known, and then take the next step: to surrender and agree to be nothing.
We carry a deep fear of being nothing. The separate self clings to being something — to having a form, an image, a story, an identity.
But if we truly and totally submit and surrender — if we agree to not being part of anything fleeting — then in that dissolution, the ending of everything we typically take ourselves to be, there is a true experience of inner nothingness. Not as something created. Not as something captured. Something that is realized.
Sit in complete stillness. Let everything settle. Let go of all identification — with the body, the thoughts, the emotions. Drop all self-image, all self-referential thought. Have no centre of self. Do not have a single speck of identity — not a single point or centre of being identifiable in matter.
Not even a dot of yourself should be associated with any reference point or anything at all. Now surrender. Agree to be nothing. Not as an intellectual idea — but as a total inner submission. Surrender the fear of being absolutely nothing. Agree completely to not being part of anything fleeting or known. Do not try to create or capture this.
Simply stop maintaining everything you usually maintain. Let it go completely. Be nothing inwardly. Remain in this state of complete withdrawal and inner renunciation — total disidentification with all things. As long as this state is maintained, you need only remain in it. The truth will reveal itself.
In that dissolution — in the ending of everything you typically take yourself to be — pure life itself, beyond matter, will be experienced as your true nature: pure being, aliveness, life, silence, stillness. No boundaries. No limitation. Boundlessness. You live completely from this space. This is freedom.
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