The Light That Eliminates Darkness

It’s possible that, while meditating, we fall into a state of vacancy where there is no thought, but no wisdom of knowingness of our true essence of pure consciousness either. If there is no wisdom, there is no compassion. We may feel good, such as when we go into a temple, but there’s nothing lasting as there is a reliance on a feeling that is a ‘right’ place to go to.

Merely become aware of this situation, without mental comment, realising that there is nothing else. That is ever-present pure consciousness; that is the ‘right place’, our original place.

We are so used to doing something to feel good – praying, chanting, prostrating – that we can fall into the other extreme of nothingness, which can turn into feeling of pointlessness.

The middle way is neutral awareness – not too tight and not too loose, neither accepting nor rejecting.

We each have to decide what is real.