Openness

The rational mind and the world of energy are mutually exclusive. Not only that, the rational mind actively works against the world of energy to the point of denying that it even exists. The rational mind manipulates object, ideas, concepts and most importantly sees, recognizes and creates patterns. Such a tool is of no use in the world of energy where objects, ideas and concepts do not exist, and where what is paramount is the immediacy and uniqueness (violence almost) of what is there, and the purity and openness you can bring to it. You cannot project onto the world of energy, not without distorting and disturbing it beyond recognition. There are no patterns – certainly not ones you have experienced before. In the world of energy everything is new and it can only be fully connected to if you abandon all notions of past, present and future, as well as self. This is what openness is – forgetting what has happened so that you can be more full of what is happening – refusing to filter new experiences through old ones. Today you are not the person you were yesterday. Progress – moving on – is natural and inevitable if we stop holding onto the past with our minds. It is possible to directly experience and trust our energy to cope rather than indirectly experience and rely on the mind and its vast inventory of memories to keep us on top of the situation. The thing that irritates my teacher more than anything is when he tells a student something and the student says, “Oh, you mean such and such.” My teacher has been known to bellow, “No I don't! I mean precisely what I said!”