From Outer to Inner Space
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We explore the frontiers of outer space, in the hope of understanding more about the Universe. Outer space, as we often visualized it to be, comprises of the planets, stars, the different galaxies, and the spaces in between. While many of us are fascinated with the discovery of possible life on other planets or stars, we forget that we hold many answers to the questions that we seek from the space inside us. And in fact, as a reader of Akashic Records, I would like to add that we hold the answers to the meaning of existence within and not on the outside. Quantum physics confirms what we already know about the intelligence of this space.
In today’s post, let us attribute outer space to be the world of form, anything that is beyond that sacred space – the interval from thought to thought – inside us.
What is Inner and Outer Space?
No words can truly describe what space is, let alone inner space. Space is in itself formless. It appears empty, because of its nothingness. However, you already know that just because you see nothing, it does not mean that there is nothing in there.
The outer space is the world of form. Form is about what you have rather than your Beingness. It is about what makes up your “I” – your house, car, credit card, belongings, friends, career, money, etc. To all that, your thoughts are attached. Thoughts take form through conditioning. They are also collections of past memories. They are perceptions of the reality of things. Hence, they are transient or illusory. In your awakening, you will realize that the thought is structure that is neither stable not have any permanence.
Thoughts do not make you intelligent. In fact, if you find yourself cluttered with thoughts, you are not able to have clarity. Your mind is far too crowded. The quietness of your mind is important to seeing truth for what it-is. Meditation is the process of freeing your mind from its conditioning and programming. It is only when you are in inner space that thoughts cease to exist.
Inner space cannot be sought in a sense. It can only be found in the here and now. An intellectual knowledge of what it is cannot suffice. Just like how you cannot truly know what a flower is from reading the descriptions of a book, it is the same with understanding stillness. True understanding is only by experiencing. You cannot know inner space through reading a book, article or even my blog post.
Insights From The Inner Space
Outer space stories are fascinating. Discoveries from the inner space no less. At first sitting, it may appear dull but in reality, it is pretty much alive, awakened by intelligence. All of inner space is consciousness that holds your essence. Our physical form is the manifestation from which consciousness presents itself.
The space within is vast. It is the doorway to many dimensions. It is where you access the higher dimensional aspects of yourself. It is where you can connect with all other souls beyond all concepts of existence. It is the space where you can “meet” your spirit guides, angels, or ascended masters.
Exploring inner space allows you to experience your full Presence. Your full Presence cannot be defined by words, labels or thoughts. It is outside the ego identity of yourself. In inner space, you realize a separation between the ego – your personality, the “I” that you have identified yourself with – and the consciousness that makes the rest of you. What makes up the rest of you is Presence in the Now. With the separation, you let go of your form identity in the “I am”.
Space is experienced in the gaps, the thought-between-thought interval. Presence is the essence found within the gaps. It is like fragrance that reveals itself between the petal folds of a flower – sweet, delicate and pure.
From inner space, insight arises. While insights are also thoughts, they arise from the unmanifested, the source pool to all-knowing. An insight is a gem of wisdom that drops in. Your heightened intuition allows you to “catch” it. It is your moment-to-moment of awareness to the way of life. The way of life is about its ebb and flow, its joy and miseries, and the illusions of the ego. Insight is also about your surrendering to its ripples, movements and waves.
Back in the outer world, upon reflection of my inner travels, I believe that I have only gotten a tiny glimpse into the vast spaciousness of stillness so far. Yet, the tiny windows are enough to let me know what possibilities there can be and how expansive consciousness can be. The tiny windows provide me with clues to my all-knowingness. Without a doubt, I look forward to being in “space” every night.
My Everyday Outer to Inner Space
I am in the midst of making plans for the June holidays. With young kids in tow on a vacation, I am not quite sure that I will be getting complete relaxation. Still, I already know that if it is peace I wish for, I cannot get it from the outer world. It has to come from the inner retreats that I have been taking. Problems mysteriously disappear in this space.
Exploring inner space has become a daily ritual for me. If I skip a sitting or two, it feels as if something is missing. It is the “nothingness” of space that sustains me for the rest of the day. It helps me to being conscious to the tempos of life. It helps me bring the dimension of Presence to what is happening around me.
In the darkness of the night, while I sit, all is quiet around me. It feels as if I am alone. But I hardly ever feel lonely. I have the company of my guides.
Sometimes a book and pen in hand is what I have next to me, when I travel inside. Invariably, I will always need to ditch any “heavy luggage” that I have been lugging around the whole day first; so that I can travel light. At the customs, before take-off to inner space, I am intuitively guided on what to do. A whisper creeps in: Leave Luggage Behind. Just Let It Go.
Moment to moment, I go deeper and deeper.
Space.
Inner space.
Share Your Space Stories
How is your meditation practice so far? Are you less attached to your ego-identity because of your raised consciousness? Do share your stories from your quiet sittings.
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