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Deepak Chopra

Going beyond thought is not suspending or supressing thought, thought is emanating from ideas and experiences and is always in the past. Being an observer without bias, which is tricky at first because thinking is a habit and one becomes addicted to this habit as an athlete in their movements of practice or an alcoholic as a survival and assistance from trauma. All are learned responses and reactions from the past and become the blueprint to the future. 

It is possible by cultivating looking without bias and attention with intention that an experience of thought and its content of emotions and feelings become as a thin layer of living, it becomes like gossamer, light in texture, tenuous and illusionary in consistency without real substance and not being sleepy or in a trance one seems to become peaceful, alert, relaxed and all senses present but not disturbed and then  it is just 'space' an endless ocean of presence, awareness of awareness and no thought present.

This seemingly ocean of 'nothingness, emptiness' is not suppression of mind or a hypnotic trance or a conjured up egoic memory digital facilitation to trick the observer into believing they are fooled by Ego AI or Ayahuasca or such like, but one feels in their whole being this is consciousness and awareness aware of Itself, one feels one is the Self.

From this Ocean of dynamic potential seemingly empty it is the cradle and womb from which everything and anything emerges and subsides too.

The Universe is not so much expanding it is the manifestations arising from it and in prolific abundance that gives the impression of expansion, the something's coming out of nothing is just adding to what is and what will be recycled into the Ocean of Nothingness to become something.

What a lovely Koan; something arises from nowhere what is it?   Should you attempt an explanation the Zen teacher will use their stick(kyosaku, keisaku) this not only to wakes one up in the Zendo(  I use to  use a stick on my trapezius as it stimulates the blood flow to the head and relieves tension from sitting too long) I do not use them anymore.

Remember all explanations reside in the memory and is the past. endeavouring to explain is to be sure and run away from the emptiness, the rational mind needs an explanation, the awareness does not. So the emptiness of the thoughtless mind is consciousness which has its own intuitive and seemingly magical beingness and is satisfied to be without rhyme or reason.

Can you be nowhere in nothing without needing reassurance, this is not a physical location It has no location at all---another Koan.

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