Like Water

Complete relaxation is the key. Everything only truly functions if nothing has arisen- no resentment, no resistance, no regrets, no clinging, no attachment. Thoughts of any kind prevent utter relaxation. When I experienced this, what I did was I made sure there were not any subconscious feelings or thoughts that resisted what is happening right now. Those subconscious thought forms were trying to avoid the present moment- they were thoughts saying, "I want to be somewhere else, somewhere more exciting. There is nothing here that I want."

That thought is false. What I want is already here- I am just ignoring it as if it is not here. This is not something that I am saying in denial; I have let go of that voice of resistance and experienced my being suspended in bliss.

After reflecting on that experience, it reminded me of something Bruce Lee said:

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

This is what it felt like. I emptied my mind, became formless, and I experiences what felt like complete flowing with the intensity of crashing. However, I have been able to experience this primarily before I go to sleep. I can imagine that this could become part of every moment in my life. For now, it is only a pointer to how things could be, or better put: how things really are already.