Gnosis/Psyche/Tao constitute the base/foundation of the Self. Of each of us. Of everyone. Of life itself. We can think our way to the base/foundation of the Self, of ourselves, and that’s as far as we can go. There are no words for anything beyond that. No vocabulary. And we can barely experience what we cannot say. It is a gray zone for me, or maybe it is grey. I don’t know where that line lies. It’s like the line between Gnosis/Psyche/Tao. I can’t find it because I can’t say what it is.
We can call it Gnosis/Psyche/Tao/Gray/Grey and that is as far as we can go. Beyond that, there is only sitting and wondering, waiting, for what arises in the silence. And something always arises in the silence. We can count on that. Being quiet enough long enough brings things to life. Something arises, emerges, appears, occurs and we see where that goes. And we cannot force it to go where we want it to go. The things that arise in the silence have their own purpose/goal/direction. We are not in charge of ourselves. We are here to observe, reflect, realize and to follow our realizations wherever they take us. We do not direct the show. We serve our realizations, and see where it goes. (This is #122 of 200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1).
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