& the Void

The problem that emerges with the awareness of higher energy, that which does not need others, but seeks union with them, is that most of what we call life becomes surplus to requirements.

Physical attachment, the need to "share ones life", companionship and all the things we do associated with these lose their meaning. What is the meaning of National, religious, or personal identity when we are no longer the black of white of the yin-yang, but rather in the position of seeing the inter-relationship? We might be black or white, but we don't see the blackness opposed to the whiteness, but the inter-relationship. We might be male or female, but we don't see the maleness opposed to the femaleness, but the inter-relationship. There can be no desire for something we haven't got, there can be no need to change what we are into what we are not, nor the need to change another into what they are not.

What we are left with is the Void. That infinite space from which, and into which, all things pass. The problem that faces beings who still have partiality (either black or white), and desires for things which are apparently beyond them and still in the Void, is that the Void is an abysmal abyss. The problem is the abide in peace with the Void, and not to allow ones disturbed consciousness to make demands of that Void and so set ourselves apart from it. That is the challenge as this life goes into a new phase, a phase with no "relationships" and having lost many of my friends. The next bit is alone I think.