So you've been everywhere and now the ET says 'I've been nearly everywhere man and STARTREK 'Space, the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise Its five year mission To explore strange new worlds To seek out new life And new civilizations To boldly go where no man has gone before
Well I watched many Star Treks and in the end it was getting predictable and although an Authentic Mission say in a few years may be exciting at first and new discoveries maybe found and then, and then. Apart from mining and more and more technology cyborgs, android and transhumanism robots supreme and eugenics of a master race, all this and trillions and trillions of galaxies maybe life forms and intelligences, other dimensions, and those who these days as of and up to 2023 travel and explore go on endless cruises, exotic ships and entertainment 'to get away from it all' and my late aunt went on so many being very wealthy she got bored with them, then the endless films and videos offered, the constant texting, emails, all this made of atoms and all with an expected years of living, all being subject as of now to an allotted number of years.
Have you been in inner space man? I've been in a few dips into the ocean of inner space where there is very little form accept what the mind conjures up and the grace of inner peace and calm and just a seemingly unfathomable endless ocean of Being which seemed to me a very preferable state of being than travelling to far off landmarks of beauty and esteem and when thought drifts away and one is not in trance, hypnotic influence and is sharp awareness without thought and that sharpness is conscious awareness of just awareness and that shifts to just being.
So in a way I've been everywhere in nowhere and it has no beginning or end, shape, or form and beyond description until thought drifts back in and I ask myself whoever that self maybe 'what's it all about' and my mind searches for the answer which may not have a definitive explanation and I am off on a spacecraft of mind stuff 'I know the twentieth Galaxy beyond Anywhere I'll go there and 'Oh boy its like the others, different atmosphere, life forms are different another item in my collectors and the explorer's box' Strange how just siting quietly and the 'drop out of thinking, moving through sleep and into no thought without suppression and bodily itches and then that peace that peace that passing all understanding.
Mind you one may have to roam the stars and endless galaxies, the inner dimensions, the incarnations galore, the thrills and spills until one realises somehow, some place, is there such a thing as a place, that what is it all about is the same as saying who am I and an 'I' without somebodies else ideas and stripped of brain washing is saying who was I before I was born and all my incarnations have been fulfilled.
It was suggested that I study the ten ox herding pictures and their explanation and then compare it to the Hill; At first there is a hill, then the hill becomes anything but a hill, then the hill becomes just a hill again. Then can one see the similarities between Ox and Hill? If not why not?
Are you daft, what is this nonsense, what is this and the slap on the shoulder. The inevitable keisaku.
There is a subtle ego allure, a trap, a strategy. In meditaion one can be subtly aware 'that I am empty, still and present. Even that is a kind of trap of 'knowing I am still and in meditation'.
Being aware that I am the witness is very commendable and a great step on the ladder or on the quest and path to a nowhere in particular, no destination and heaven forbid enlightenment.
It seems to be there is no knower of anything and yet I exist. Strange is it not?
SHACK
Here and There
Is it really there. Is anything really there or here? Hmmm! SHACK
I know; I will go on a bus ride, I search the places, excited to go and explore hardly containing my excitement to amuse myself, fulfil the longing for a real grounding permanent experience of peace and joy, then the excitement subsides, I've seen it, done it, repeated it endless times in different scenarios. The urge, the rush, subsides and I realise not with sadness but with a contented relief, that I am that Peace, I am that fulfilment.
When that rush and thrill of going and doing dies down, I am at home in my being and do not have to go anywhere in travel or fantasy.
It's not my body that is afraid of dying for it knows its destiny of birth and death, youth, illness, disability and death. However my mind and its collages, experiences, inculcations and the overall collective named ego that is afraid of losing the known and fearing oblivion might be on passing and leaving the body in its demise.
What is there to fear in oblivion for there is no witness in nothingness, the eternal anaesthetic. The fear of impermanency or extinction is in the the fact there is no witness, consciousness and awareness there is no identity, even the witness is not aware of awareness, the awareness is not aware of experiencing itself, there may not be an aliveness without a conscious presence, truly nowhere to hang one's hat and even no hat. And who can say a thing about that?