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THE VAST EXPANSE

 

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this

moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the

space of mind in its wisdom aspect. It is the prayer of my innermost

being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of

consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place

of Liberation. Witness the contents of mind, the visions and sounds,

the thoughts, as clouds passing through the vast expanse - the

sky-like nature of mind. The rootedness of Being is in emptiness,

clarity and awareness: unborn, unspoilt, stainlessly pure. The

infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are

without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are

residents in your awareness. I subject my awareness to the perfection

of being, the perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, all of

these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of

Being and appreciate all I can share it with...the seamless

interweaving of consciousness with each moment. Create perfection

wherever you go with your awareness. That is why this teaching is

admired by artists--they sense the correctness of the response to life

as creative. Life is infinite creative play. Enjoyment and

participation in this creative play is the artists profound joy. We

co-author every moment with universal creativity. To bare our souls is

all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us.

Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make

offerings to them--these nature spirits who call us here--sealing our

fate with each other, celebrating our love. I am an intersecting

kaleidoscope of Being in a rainbow refractive wave pattern: a

corpuscle of light on the ocean...the transparency of my body with the

rocks...sometimes the only way to summarize my feelings is to draw--to

collapse the frenzy in my limbs enough to make a mark out of profound

appreciation for my existence. Share your presence with others, no

boundaries, completely openly lovingly. Love is what makes us alive,

that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available

to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here,

that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being. We are

constantly drawing the line between love and not love--enter into the

Non-duality Zone, and all judgements dissolve in the Vast Expanse.

It's as though we are co-conspirators of consciousness--everyone,

everywhere, everywhen, mixing up our openable minds. It's as though we

could gather clouds in the sky and people into our lives. Like an

eruption of consciousness, we discover the most important force is

love. Experience yourself as the Source and appreciate every moment as

perfection. Sunrise--Sunset. Thank you, Thank you, Creator, profound

unstoppable connectedness of all beings, pattern to everything, most

radical no-thing, the Vast Expanse.

 

Alex Grey August 22,1994