Notes from a Perplexed Mystic

Quantum Source ... Quantum World ... Quantum Void ... Quantum You!

As time slows down, I notice mind “descending”

toward an open emptiness,

in a kind of self-contemplation.

As quiet space expands, attachment to objects—

including thoughts, feelings, impressions and perceptions—

wanes.

Sometimes they just go away.

Time and space go away.

As mind continues to sink into stillness,

its subconscious treasure house releases images

of sky, galaxy, universe, the possibilities

and consciousnesses of them all,

the potential for anything to be.

I find there’s no way to grasp emptiness or find it.

Trying to grasp it requires awareness of something,

immediately there is duality, and interdependence.

Emptiness is not a thing to be grasped.

Emptiness, or awareness, is always now, and alone.

It is stillness,

that’s all that needs to be said about it.

In that silence you feel potential.

A potential energy courses through us.

With this, we meet the world, the duality.

What we seem to have is a luminous actuality.

Though we don’t always notice in the everyday,

wrapped up in the phantasms of protective, survivalist mind,

it only takes a pause for the presence,

the luminosity,

to be found

where it has always been.