The void. It stretches endless into infinity. How can you grasp the idea, the concept of it? Then, into this void, comes a particle, a wave. At least that is what the observer sees. But does it? Is there activity in the void? And who is this observer observing the action? Wherein is he to be accounted for? Cease ye from man [the observer] whose breath is in his nostrils. It is a tale of conditioning. The observer observing itself in a mirror is seeing only an image. One cannot see oneself at all. Our form is only a reflection in the pond, the window, the mirror. Who observes? And how is this observer to be trusted? We are endless expressions of facts that are continuously changing. So how can they be facts when they are not continuously true? The world would still be flat. We appear to live in a world of relative reality. But relative reality is not universal. What is true in North America is not true in India or Africa, or Asia. We are all a reflection of our conditioning! First our family, then our community and schools, society and political affiliation. None of it the true truth. Most of it articulated by belief systems that have no basis is any truth at all. We quote The Bible, The Koran, The Talmud,The Gita,The Tao. But have we read what we quote so knowingly? Have we understood the meaning behind the words? In the beginning was the Word. A word represents an idea. An idea is infinite and never finite until it is brought into expression and then the purity of the idea is lost in definition. Stand ye still and know that I am. I will never leave you, nor forsake you. Never! Not at any time on your infinite journey through eternity. Grace and Joy and Peace and Love and Harmony and Beauty and Abundance and Freedom are your birthright. They are ever present but, in our search for an entity identity we move into the chaos of the world, embrace the pairs of opposites and become immersed in the Adam dream of a world separate and apart. A world of personal sense and an empty sense of separation. Turn ye and live. Be ye transformed. Breath is something different that the breath that is in your nostrils. The perfect, pure Presence is closer than breathing, nearer then hands and feet. That is the start of beginning to know who you are. Breathe in and be still. Breathe in and let go. Be in the moment and enter The Silence. Listen for the still, small voice that speaks within you. Speak, your servant listens. And be still until you hear that voice thunder inside you. You will know it speaks the truth of all truths. When the truth reveals the lie you are free. I, if I bear witness to myself, my witness is not true. Deliver me from the lie.

Breathing in I calm my mind. Breathing out I let go. Breathing in I enter the moment. Breathing out I enter The Silence. Each day this begins my reflection, my contemplation, my meditation. I do it as a mantra until my mind is still and I reach that space where I washes over me and something in me raises into an awareness. Above the density of this world, above mindlessness, above mindfulness and into an awareness that leads to the flow of Consciousness. I dwell there, in that flow for as long a moment as I possibly can. And then start again. I let the mind wander off as it will, always coming back to the moment when I was in the flow of Consciousness. Knowing that I am a point of light within a greater Light. And Thus I stand. I imagine a cube of light with a black cloth covering it with a gazillion small pinprick holes, each representing one of us. But take away the cloth and there you have the pure and perfect Light. We are not separate from that Light. We are one with It! At last I let go and enter therein. Stand ye still and know that I Am. And I am still. Carried along by the flow I enter The Silence and become one with that One. Leaving behind the world. Here, in this now, there is perfection without flaw, purity without stain. The pairs of opposites drop away. There is nothing. Nothing to judge by, no opinion to be held, no belief to bow to. And being empty, I am fulfilled. By Grace, I am fulfilled. I am the I am that I am to be. Now, in that moment. With the equilibrium of equanimity I am still. I am free of the Myth of me, myself and mine. Without desire - all that I have is yours, what could I possible desire? Without attachment - that to which I am attached, I am. Those attachments are not outside the one that we are but part and parcel of It. Without personal sense, I am free from the sense of separation. Oneness fills my Soul. I am still, awaiting the still small voice in The Silence.

When the world is too much with me, my soul screams in the silence. But the silence is still and does not respond. It waits until I can stand still and know that I am. What am I? Who am I? I am Grace wending its way through infinity on this journey through eternity. I am never who I seem to be, but always who I really am. Who is that? I am Life. Life without a subject. Life is the substance of all form. Living is but a byproduct of Life Eternal. A conditioning of the entity causing an entity identity that is but a reflection of the senses. But I am more than senses. Beyond the sense of separation I am beyond any personal sense. Beyond the pairs of opposites that bind me to the world. If I loose myself from the nets of desire, the attachment to personalities, or places or possessions or conditions. Loose myself from judgement, opinion or belief I am free of the myth of me - that false sense that binds me to the world of illusion. This mirage. This dream. The illusion of my senses and the delusion of my mind. All projections are within me. The screen is empty until there is a picture projected upon it. Like a movie. There is no reality there. It is light projected through an instrument that casts its shadow on the blank screen. And I am but an observer. Observing the illusion of someone else. The observer becomes immersed in the false projection and, for the moment, is absorbed into it. But when the lights go up in the theater he returns to himself and is free of the projection. So it is with each of us. This world is but a projection involving our senses and emotions. Free of that we are able to return to the I that I am. But we do not. Alas, we are captured and conditioned by the projection and enslaved to it rather than to who we really are. Break the chains that bind you to this false image and you will see the wonder of an overshadowing presence that draws you home. The Light that dispels the darkness. There was nothing. I of my self am nothing. But in that emptiness is the space for every possibility. Life is the substance. Life, by grace, will lead you to your Self. And you will discover in the depths of infinite eternity the I that I am. I am the I am That I am To Be. Now, in this very moment.

This is This because That is That, the Buddhist awareness of the Christian idea of the Pairs of Opposites. It exposes the reality that we can only have judgement, opinion and belief because there is something "other" with which to compare it. The rich girl is only That because of the poor waif - This. Good exists because of an opinion about Bad. Heaven exists because of the belief in Hell. Without this awareness of something "other" we have no guide lines to form our judgments. So we come to live in the confusion and the collusion of the conditioned mind. At the highest level there is Consciousness without an object or objective. In our human condition we step that down to awareness. We become aware of something outside our true Self. We become observers. From there we develop mindfulness of those things and begin our journey into personal self and a sense of separation begins to overtake us. From the Upanishads: The one Self within all beings becomes different, according to what It enters, and exists also without.The pairs of opposites are made up and depend on each other for survival. Remove the covering, as Fra Giovanni tells us, and you will find beneath it a Living Splendor woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Be there in that Silence. Be still and know that I am. I am never who I seem to be, but always who I really am. Who am I? I am infinite eternity. I am Stillness. I am Joy and Peace. Not as the world giveth. I am Love and Harmony. Also not as the world giveth. I am pure beauty without judgement. I am abundance without greed. I am perfect Freedom. I am Grace.