Pathways #6: The Path of a Single Point

This is the pathway to a single point.

It is the pathway that is about the paths that are in between all the intended paths and all the paths we intend.  It is also an intended path and a path we ourselves might intend.

Stretching, distorting, and tearing, this is what the mind does between all the intended paths.

Struggling with problems, lacking sleep, suffering from personal and collective history, encountering demons, and trying to survive human existence in a difficult world. This is the path between all intended paths.

Nature or the Creator?

Is the Creator in Nature and of Nature, or within all points in physical space and time at once and so of a single essence that is also beyond?   Is it Nature we sense or the Creator?

The mind and the brain. The occupied mind, the distortive mind, the stretched mind.

The stretched mind.  The strained mind.  The tired mind.

Simply relax.  Relax the mind.  Feel it go slack.  Reduce your sense of mind to observing, to contemplating, to merely observing once more, to contemplating more freely, and then to observing and contemplating a single point, whatever that can be.

Can a single point in and of the mind light up all of the brain?  Can the Creator and Nature be one and be something reducible to a single point?  Can the single point then be all of one’s being and all of one’s being then contained in something like the sound a single letter makes?

This will be the final pathway.  I think we mean it this time, and we feel this is a good way to end the series.  The designer had in mind a meditation exercise that “showed” what was involved for success in meditation exercises.  She explains: “You need some true and real images.  You need some feelings, experiences, or motivations that you’ll draw on in the exercise so that you can start “as yourself,” “in your very being.”  Your very being is required in my view.  You need to be aware of your present situation or circumstance at the very least.  I thought, a single-point meditation is one that people can always work on, but I didn’t want them to work on it as part of another pathway because that wouldn’t really further either the other pathway or the single-point meditation.  I thought the two would get jumbled or mixed up together.  I see this meditation as being valuable because it is meant to be something one does when one needs something to do that will be beneficial, that will prove to be a worthy investment of spare time, but that might require one engaging with the challenge of a difficult situation or circumstance one might be experiencing in order for one to develop a greater aptitude for true freedom in one’s being.”  “In other words, maybe you’d agree that people may not want to do a meditation exercise when they are busy with other things, with being on “the intended path” as you have said.  This is for when people are off that path and maybe want to find a way to work on something for relief or to help them get back on it and with the assurance that they might not so easily be knocked off course in the future.”  “Yes, it’s something for them to do that will strengthen them, that will add and enhance all that they intend to do with themselves in the future.  It is “about” all the paths between the intended paths, all the paths one doesn’t intend to be on, but it is also “about” all meditation exercises.  I feel meditation only works where it meets you somewhere you know for yourself that is in yourself.  So I made it about challenging situations or circumstances, or, yes, even being off one’s preferred path.  You could design the Single-Point Meditation for other situations or circumstances, to draw on other experiences in your life, but it has to work you toward a single point.  I feel that the stage of the meditation invoking Nature and the Creator is important, however, for it gets us thinking “beyond ourselves” and perhaps even can connect us, through practice, to a knowledge of these powers in the universe as they seem to become present in our own reality and existence.”   “What a wonderful exercise for people to do when they are stuck in traffic or had a bad day at work!  So accessible, easy to remember and perform, and maybe just as helpful for regaining one’s composure, orientation, and focus.  And yet so limitless and rewarding in the depth and breadth of possible achievement.”