Integral Spiritual Meditation A Blog. Ron Gardner on September 9, One way to understand it is as awareness-oneness. Think of it this way: Awareness is like turning a lamp on, but without plugging it in, there is no light or power.
Awareness becomes plugged-in presence when one, whole-bodily, lives as it in relation to life. Plugging awareness, as embodied presence, directly into life transforms it into a penetrating force that cuts through the dross separating one from Spirit. A second way to explain presence is to understand it as relationship. In other words, plugged-in presence is relationship.
To be directly, immediately present is to be as relationship. Although relationship implies dualism, when it is direct and unobstructed, it spontaneously morphs into non-dual being awareness. This self or relational -enquiry serves to instigate my resumption of the asana of relationship. Everything and anything. Ultimately, one cuts through all these and encounters the ultimate Object, Spirit Itself. First, it functions as a mirror that reflects your mentation back to you.
In the context of relationship to empty space, you can clearly and objectively view your thoughts. And most importantly, you can see and feel them as formations of consciousness that contract the field of open awareness into enclosed states of self-constriction.
Secondly, empty space functions as a doorway to Spirit, the Sambhogakaya. It is the Akasha Sanskrit akasa , the formless, universal Space element, a. It is the root element from which the four derivative elements fire earth, air, and water stem.
