SHACK 4026 FURNITURE

Space Planning ABBY

To me the content of the mind is like the furniture in a room that is cluttered and is most likely to be the inculcations ( Inculcation is the instilling of knowledge or values in someone, usually by repetition. To inculcate is to instil or impress an idea on someone, so inculcation is the process of instilling or impressing ideas. A lot of teaching is a form of inculcation: teachers repeat information to students, hoping it will sink in.---Brain washing---persistent repetition). Most of us merely shift the furniture round or get so attached it becomes familiar and safe or reluctantly replace it when it worn out. Sometimes if there is a radical shift the mind gets lost for a bit and goes to where it was and usually with furniture it can be re-familiarised and safety resumed, not so much with concepts beliefs and dogma. 

Using this analogy perhaps we can see the room as the brain and the inculcations as the ego and brain washed content, the walls of the room seem like the brain to be the confinement of the content, whilst the empty space is the awareness, so the content arises in the awareness as conscious experience, without the space and walls there is no content, however looking intently without prejudice, attention without intention and being a 'mind warrior' not afraid to witness and experience the 'empty mind' not subduing it by force, intention or theory and assumption, it might be possible for some to see thought and its reaction as emotion arising as if from space, something like the slow scrolling of a movie menu of actors, directors, camera crews and so on. I like the one in Star wars, then there is fleeting chance to see thought as a 'scroll' of agendas, beliefs and experiences always of the past or modified and a makeover to the future. Then one can examine without past conditioning, programming and heritage the nature of the content and some awaken to the sense 'everything I have been and are I have been taught to be', of course with a few modifications as one grows and becomes older and hopefully wiser, so who am I without content, of course one needs to have a few basic contents to survive. In analogy a chair, a bed and some utensils for food.  

It certainly exposes thoughts as not necessary or flimsy without substance, try grabbing a thought and cuddling it, of course some thoughts are needed and as I have written so many times, what if your content furniture is different to others and conflict can arise, my content brain washing is far superior to yours, I cannot bear to visit your room so to speak, the colours, the smell, the dust or whatever. So should one be able to have a clear space and be aware of one's awareness and thought is absent not by supressing it but the peace that comes with the empty room (many cannot bare empty rooms, starkness, no TV, Cell / mobile phone, computer and so on and it seems boring and stale and depressing, I am lost without my phone, TV and familiar digital appliances and addictions. Can one one take the chance of sitting alone in emptiness and experience the pain of loneliness, empty emotional stimulation and perhaps a strange beautiful calm arises and maybe this is really who one is?

This is the path of no paths, the spiritual Samurai, the warrior of the Empty Path and Dao, for everything came from nothingness to somethingness and vice versa.

 SHACK aka GEOFF