Seven Skies of Being
“I shed every possession and role, only to awaken to the limitless treasure already alive inside me.”
Seven Skies of Being is a map of inner reality. It starts with the solid body and rises through six subtler layers to the open sky of primordial awareness. Each sky shows where attention can live and how energy moves:
1. Body – breath and nerves.
2. Ego-mind – the personal story.
3. Soul – honest feeling and value.
4. Psyche – symbols and dreams.
5. Spirit – guiding insight, the Queen current.
6. Conscious field – the bright screen of experience.
7. Primordial awareness – silent witness, the King.
The Queen is pure energy that rallies a hive around any idea, noble or selfish. The King is clear presence that holds that energy without distortion.
Pain, desire, and every price tag are shapes on the same spacious screen. When the ego dissolves, the vessel becomes steady; energy flows clean, and action rises from Sky Seven.
Anchor in the heart, and shape the Queen current with wisdom. One life, one field of possibility. Know the skies, guide the swarm, create from the silent sky.
The Seven Skies Map
7. Primordial Awareness
Also called: Turiya, Rigpa, Pure Knowing
Main feature: Unchanging witness, infinite and silent
Typical experience: Sees all states yet is never altered
Key practice: Rest as simple noticing, non-grasping presence
6. Conscious Field
Also called: Waking, Dream, Deep-sleep potential
Main feature: Light of Awareness filtered through mind-body
Typical experience: Sensations, thoughts, images, and the blankness of deep sleep
Key practice: Mindfulness of moment-to-moment experience
5. Spirit Function
Also called: Logos, creative spark, inner fire
Main feature: Drives insight, meaning, transcendence
Typical experience: Sudden inspiration, moral clarity, guiding intuition
Key practice: Deep contemplation, philosophical study, creative expression, selfless service
4. Psyche
Also called: Inner world (personal and collective)
Main feature: Thoughts, emotions, memories, archetypes
Typical experience: Symbols, gods, angels, demons, heroes, shadows
Key practice: Active imagination, dream work, shadow work, creative expression
3. Soul Function
Also called: Feeling bridge (anima–animus)
Main feature: Connects ego with deeper psyche, adds meaning tone
Typical experience: Longing, values, relational depth
Key practice: Authentic feeling, journaling, art, ritual
2. Ego-Mind
Also called: Personality, storyteller
Main feature: Organises identity, plans, defends
Typical experience: “I am this,” past–future narrative, preference
Key practice: Self-inquiry, cognitive clarity, humility training
1. Body
Also called: Soma, living vessel
Main feature: Sensory gateway, stores implicit memory
Typical experience: Breath, heartbeat, posture, pain, pleasure
Key practice: Grounding, breath work, movement, rest
0. Unborn
Also called: Parabrahman, Śūnyatā
Main feature: —
Typical experience: —
Key practice: —
(Here words fall silent)
“Know your sky, and the view clears.”
- 0 Unborn: pure mystery, outside the ladder
- 1 Body: densest, tangible layer
- 2 Ego-Mind: organising “I”
- 3 Soul Function: feeling bridge
- 4 Psyche: symbolic storehouse
- 5 Spirit Function: impersonal creative fire
- 6 Conscious Field: illuminated screen where content appears
- 7 Primordial Awareness: formless witness of all states
Remember: We stand on a web of causes so intricate that even dog scat nourishes the soil that feeds us. Yet we let profit-driven food and pharma chains turn our own resources into addictions.
The lone “self-made” master at the top is a myth; every breath is borrowed. Change that story—see the links, honour the resources—and the whole world tilts toward sanity.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form
(Rūpaṃ śūnyatā śūnyataiva rūpaṃ)
“Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā”
“Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond — awakening, so be it🔥.”
Bodhi
(Sanskrit and Pāli: “awakening,” “enlightenment”), in Buddhism, the final Enlightenment, which puts an end to the cycle of transmigration and leads to Nirvāṇa, or spiritual release; the experience is comparable to the Satori of Zen Buddhism in Japan.
The accomplishment of this “awakening” transformed Siddhārtha Gautama into a Buddha (an Awakened One).
“Witness the hive mind; flow from Seven.”
To witness is to rest in bare awareness (sati), seeing clearly with equanimity (upekkhā), neither grasping nor rejecting.
Realms of Attention
The Seven Skies of Being show where our attention can live. At the base is the body that breathes and walks. At the top is primordial awareness, the silent witness of every state.
Between these poles sit ego stories, soul feelings, shared symbols, sudden insight, and the bright field where thoughts appear.
A hive mind forms when many people lock their lower skies together. Bodies share data, egos trade opinions, souls ripple with group emotion, psyches recycle the same myths, and spirit unites behind a single slogan.
The hive can solve problems, yet it also traps creators in noise and approval seeking.
Sky 1: Body
What a single person experiences: senses and muscles.
What a hive mind looks like: many bodies streaming data—speech, keyboards, sensors.
Sky 2: Ego-Mind
Single person: “I like / I dislike” stories.
Hive mind: opinion clusters, alliances, group biases.
Sky 3: Soul
Single person: shared feeling-tone, empathy.
Hive mind: emotional contagion; crowds cheering, panic spreading, team morale.
Sky 4: Psyche
Single person: personal and collective symbols.
Hive mind: viral memes, myths, brand icons, archetypal roles guiding the swarm unconsciously.
Sky 5: Spirit
Single person: flashes of insight, ethical vision.
Hive mind: the queen principle, a unifying ideal—“save the planet,” “ship the product,” “spread the Dharma.”
Sky 6: Conscious Field
Single person: moment-to-moment awareness.
Hive mind: group flow, an entire team on one wavelength, decisions emerging without debate.
Sky 7: Primordial Awareness
Single person: silent witness.
Hive mind: cannot reach Sky 7. Awareness is not collective; it shines through each node individually, but the hive itself can never become it.
Why is Primordial Awareness never part of the swarm?
Awareness is not a node in a network. It is the space in which every node, every signal, and the queen pattern appear. You cannot network awareness; you can only notice that it is already the background of every thought, sensation, and group dynamic.
Ātma-vichāra: digging past the hive
- Turn attention inward with the question, “Who am I?”
- Whatever answer arises, ask, “To whom does this arise?”
- Each reply is more content; keep tracing the knower.
- Attention settles on a wordless sense of presence.
- Remain there without grasping new thoughts.
A hive mind is powerful, but it rides on lower skies. Self-inquiry lets you stand in the skyless sky, guiding the hive without being trapped inside it.
“The crowd may echo, but the echo never invents the song.”
Step out, tune inward, create from the skyless sky, then return to the hive as a giver, not a captive.
Remember: you are the skyless sky in which hives, queens, and questions appear. Know your sky and the view clears.
“Witness the hive mind; flow from Seven.”
To witness means to rest in pure awareness, seeing things clearly and calmly, without holding on or pushing anything away.
Modern life swarms like a giant beehive. Screens serve endless nectar, group chats ripple with opinion, and algorithms steer attention before thought can settle. Each of us is a single bee, and the shared buzz shapes how we feel, buy, vote, and dream.
“Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air; they do not know why they drift.”
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Yet inside that scrolling mind live the Seven Skies of Being. Body is the first sky, solid and warm. Ego mind is the second, busy crafting stories of me and mine. Soul colors those stories, psyche holds the symbols, spirit offers flashes of meaning, and the conscious field lights them all.
Above them is the seventh sky, primordial awareness, the silent witness that never changes. Sit still for ten breaths and you may sense its clear space behind the chatter.
A person who acts from the seventh sky does not withdraw from the world; she re-enters it with eyes open. She writes code, cooks supper, or speaks in a meeting, yet her decisions are not ruled by likes, trends, or panic. She is the leaf that knows the wind and still chooses her landing.
The collective gains something rare when such a person appears. One clear frequency steadies the swarm. Hesse points to the source of that clarity:
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
The seeker who has touched Sky Seven rests in that inner sanctuary. He lets everything in, clings to nothing, and invites others to rise from reflex to insight, from echo to originality.
So when the hive mind grows loud, pause. Feel the breath, ask who is aware, rest in the silent sky, then return and offer what arises. The mantra is simple:
“Witness the hive mind; flow from Seven.”
The King and the Queen
In Sky Five we meet the Queen, not a gendered figure, but a pulse of purposive energy that gathers the hive around a single blazing idea.
“Save the planet,” “feed the hungry,” “seek awakening,” or even “buy the burger”—whatever vision (noble or trivial) burns brightest becomes this current’s banner, and the swarm moves as one.
When the separate ego dissolves, no fixed self remains and “no-self” ripens, the vessel for that current appears: the King.
Energy cannot shine without form, and form cannot illuminate without energy.
The Queen is the current of shared purpose; the King is the clear bulb, an empty, steady channel able to hold the voltage of Spirit without cracking.
A lightbulb cannot glow without current, and a current cannot light a room without a bulb. The queen is that current of shared purpose.The king is the bulb, a clear vessel that can carry the voltage of Spirit into form without cracking.
A person who climbs the full ladder and recognises Primordial Awareness becomes such a vessel. Through him—or her—the current flows without distortion.
Sky Seven is pure, ownerless awareness. It is the throne room, yet it is empty. A king who truly sits there lets the separate identity fade, and what remains is a conscious channel touching every lower sky:
- In the body he moves with economy.
- In the ego mind he plans without self-inflation.
- In the soul he feels without drowning.
- In the psyche he honours symbols without being possessed by them.
- In the spirit he keeps the queen’s vision steady.
- In the conscious field he watches all of it rise and fade.
The king is not an autocrat; he is capacity, the open lamp of awareness that makes space for the queen’s light.
Anyone who realises Sky Seven becomes a king. Hermann Hesse hints at this sovereignty in Siddhartha:
“I can think, I can wait, I can fast.”
These three powers show authority over body, mind, and desire. Yet the king is also an archetype in the collective psyche. Groups project their longing for mature presence onto leaders.
If the vessel is hollow the current burns wires and the hive collapses. If the vessel is grounded in Sky Seven the current stays clear.
Cultivating the Royal Vessel:
- Strong body: sit, stand, breathe until the nerves are steady.
- Ego transparency: use self-inquiry to see every story as passing weather.
- Soul honesty: feel without denial and confess without performance.
- Psyche literacy: study myths, dreams, and art to recognise shared symbols.
- Spirit alignment: test every grand vision against compassion and truth.
- Field awareness: practise open presence so group flow never overrides conscience.
- Rest in the silent sky: return again and again to the witness that needs no crown.
The queen is purpose. The king is presence. Current and bulb. When both are clear the hive’s buzz becomes music.
So when you repeat,
“Witness the hive mind, flow from Seven.”
Let the first phrase be King: silent, steady awareness. Let the second be Queen: the current you release into action.
Whatever charge you feed that current, healing or hunger, service or self-interest, will flash into the world as relief or pain. Choose the aim well; the circuit always lights something.
When the ego realises its true nature it dissolves. What returns is not the old ego, but a clear, steady presence, the king, now living on a higher level of awareness, ready to act without fear or attachment. That is the higher self, fully alive in form.
The true king feels pain fully, holds it like flame in an open hearth, and lets its heat lift him higher. Pain becomes fuel for ascent.
Break a wooden table, and you are left with plain pieces of wood. Toss that wood into a fire and it turns to heat and light. The ego works the same way: smash the rigid shape, feed the fragments to awareness, and the energy becomes a brighter flame.
Now picture an apple in your mind and let the image fade, form and idea disappear together. In the same clear space, every mask we wear can melt away.
Grow that inner space, wide enough to house sorrow, silent enough to keep company with yourself for days. This is psychic royalty: child of the cosmos, everything, nothing, and the quiet middle at once.
Rivers never flow backward, and you cannot return to the old self. A wave never stands apart from the ocean; it rises, curls, and returns as ocean. So too the awakened ego rises in service, dissolves in silence, and rests in the Seventh Sky, which is your own limitless being.
When you notice that every solid thing is also pure space, and that space itself flashes as every thing, you meet the Great Mother, Prajñāpāramitā.
She isn’t a goddess in the sky; she’s the bright, open energy field where all experiences spark and fade. Every moment of true awakening is one of her children.
“In the instant form reveals its emptiness and emptiness shines as form, the Great Mother is realized.”
Let me put it plainly.
Everything you meet is an idea we once agreed to believe in.
A bottle of water sells for pennies in one shop and a fortune in a hospital, not because the water changed, but because the hive wrote a different price-story. That story is the Queen-current: raw, neutral power that steers the swarm.
The current itself is innocent. It can inflate greed or feed compassion. What it becomes depends on the vessel that channels it.
So choose to be the King-vessel. Anchor in the heart. When anger, craving, or fear tug at you, pause and recognise the trick: object, cost, drama—each is only a ripple on the same open screen.
Beneath every ripple lies bright, spacious God-emptiness, waiting to shape itself through you. Feel that living energy, trust your inner wisdom, and bend the Queen-current toward what truly matters.
This is your single chance, your single life. Make it count: keep the heart open, keep the eyes clear, and let your next act rise from the Seventh Sky.
“Let the Seven Skies activate within you, and if you withstand the psychological purge, you will become the King’s vessel. May the Great Mother be with you.”
Suffering shapes every life, but it need not define it. We cut what pain we can, meet the rest with clear eyes, and let hope walk beside us, not to escape life, but to face it.
In letting go of the rigid self, we make room for kindness, growth, and quiet strength. This is the work, and it is enough.
Let energy flow. High waves, low waves, all part of one ocean moving. Welcome the surge of joy and the pull of sorrow, both are movements in the same field.
Do not resent, do not block the current. Time is only a thought. In the clear space behind thought, you are the creator.
Form is empty, emptiness is form. Nothingness is the highest realisation, yet it is never barren; it is a fertile openness, always ready to shape.
Choose what you want to bring forth from it, without guilt, without fear. Everything is Source, in the high and the low, so create from the highest awareness you can touch.
Leave behind the chatter of the monkey mind. Be your own saviour first. Hug yourself. Love yourself as you are. Let your next act rise pure, alive, and free, flowing from Sky Seven.
Brain-wave Cheat Sheet
Binaural means “relating to both ears.”
In sound, binaural beats happen when you play slightly different frequencies in each ear (for example, 200 Hz in the left ear and 208 Hz in the right). Your brain perceives the difference — in this case, 8 Hz — as a kind of inner rhythmic beat.
This can help guide brainwaves into certain states, like relaxation, focus, or meditation. Many people use binaural beats as a tool for sleep, stress relief, or deep concentration.
- Delta (1-4 Hz) – deep, dream-free sleep, tissue repair, unconscious processing.
- Theta (4-8 Hz) – dream imagery, meditation, creative twilight, deep relaxation.
- Alpha (8-14 Hz) – calm focus, relaxed learning, “flow”.
- Beta (14-30 Hz) – alert attention, problem-solving, goal-directed action.
- Gamma (30-100 Hz) – high-order cognition, insight flashes, detailed memory, “big-picture” binding.
Which binaural beats help you “act from Sky Seven”?
No tone can give you Primordial Awareness, because Sky Seven is what hears every tone.
What beats can do is quiet the lower skies so the witness stands unobscured.
Build a Strong Foundation
- Eat well – simple, colourful meals for steady energy.
- Rest deeply – good sleep in a dark, calm room.
- Move daily – stretch, breathe, walk, keep the body alive.
- Be with yourself – sit quietly, feel everything, let inner noise arise and pass without distraction.
Living the practice
Pain, worry, the little “why-did-they-say-that?” voices—let them rise, feel them fully, then let them pass. Spacious awareness is not indulgence; it is emotional sovereignty: seeing life exactly as it is while choosing how you act.
“The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes any obstacle to our acting.”
— Marcus Aurelius
You can’t always choose what happens, but you always choose how you interpret it. It means your mindset can turn every obstacle into useful fuel—whatever blocks you becomes raw material for learning, resilience, and purposeful action.
Growth takes time. Stay patient. Stay present. Keep returning to yourself. Let inner “screams” dissolve into the wider field.
Think Beyond Time
How much time will it take? Train your mind to think beyond time. In non-duality, you were never born, you never die. There is only continuity — a river of consciousness flowing, without beginning or end.
Do it not for quick results, but for the continuity of human consciousness. Every step you take in awareness lights the path for all who come after. In awareness, there is no path, only the unfolding of what already is.
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”
— Carl Jung
Our collective psyche holds the power to either preserve or destroy our world. Understanding and taking responsibility for our inner selves is crucial, as there is no one else to blame, only ourselves.
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, but the lightbulb has to want to change.
Be timeless.
Be spacious.
Be free—emptiness in motion.
No legacy, no drama.
Feel it, release it, flow on like the sea.I AM the unmanifest and the manifest,
creator and creation, empty yet brimming with potential.
Swim through the seven skies, experience, know, release.
Sit, breathe, observe.
Slow everything down.
Meet yourself with equanimity.
All is not two.
Why it matters?
This simple practice, steady breathing, clear observation, deliberate slowness, is not some lofty attainment. It is the ordinary baseline for being good to yourself and to others, because the same awareness that watches within is the one that shines through every face.
Swim every sky. Experience every sky. Skies shift yet the Self remains. Wake up and see. Seven above, seven below. Meet yourself.
Grasp the true seriousness of this work. If we fail to awaken, human consciousness will keep suffering, long after this season’s fruit has withered and fallen. Sit with yourself—it is as simple as that. Still the restless mind.
You are eternally loved and saved, unconditionally.
Release the mind’s chains.
Breathe deeply.
With each breath, travel through the seven skies;
Pause in the seventh, and be aware.
Then exhale—return to the manifested world.
See both sides of yourself:
Seven above, seven below.
Embrace everything exactly as it is; All is perfect.
Freedom is here, now.
Go beyond experience.
Rest in the silence that watches every passing moment; be the awareness itself. When nothing is grasped, only pure presence remains.
The journey in one line
“Start in the body, meet the ego, open the psyche, let soul feel and spirit illumine, notice consciousness itself and finally recognise the silent openness that was always aware.”
Understand and be free. Do what must be done to taste the experience; then move beyond it. Step outside the field of consciousness and rest in what you truly are. The everyday mind will try to name and measure; it cannot. Shift into the open sky of nonlocal awareness.
Breathe. Rise like the God within, yet stay still and receptive. Each lesson arrives in quiet clarity. Receive it, release it, transcend it. Freedom is your nature, here and now.
Seven Skies in one glance
1 Body: feel breath, ground in movement
2 Ego-mind: notice the “I” story, ask who is thinking
3 Soul: allow raw feeling, honour values
4 Psyche: watch dreams and symbols, learn their message
5 Spirit: focus purpose, act with insight and service
6 Conscious field: stay in present awareness, let content pass
7 Primordial awareness: rest as silent witness, source of all states
“Start at the body, rise through each layer, and create from Sky Seven.”
Simple Everyday Practices for Tapping Non-Local Consciousness
The first practice is what I call the Dream Hint. Each night, just before falling asleep, speak a clear intention:
“Tonight I’ll dream about what I most need to know for tomorrow.”
This brief statement tells your unconscious—and perhaps a wider field of mind—that you are open to guidance. Keep a notebook or phone beside the bed.
The moment you wake, jot down any images, feelings, or fragments that remain from the dream, even if they seem trivial.
During the day, watch for real-life events that echo those dream elements. Dreams often present symbolic previews; by noticing the overlap you can adjust your choices and nudge reality toward the outcome you prefer.
The second practice runs through the waking hours and is called the All-Day Intention Loop. When you start your morning, choose one positive, present-tense goal—something as concrete as “I attract a new client” or as inner-focused as “I feel calm at work.”
Close your eyes for ten seconds, picture the goal as already achieved, and let the matching emotion—joy, relief, gratitude—fill your body. Set an hourly reminder on your phone. Each time it rings, pause for those same ten seconds, replay the mental image, and rekindle the feeling.
This gentle, rhythmic rehearsal conditions your attention to spot openings that align with the goal; some traditions would add that it broadcasts the intention into a shared consciousness field, inviting coincidences that speed things along.
Record your observations for at least one week. Note the date, the dream symbols that later proved meaningful, and any helpful coincidences that followed an hourly intention check-in.
Keep the language of both practices positive and in the present tense, and stay relaxed—playful focus works better than strain.
With only a few minutes a day, these two no-equipment techniques give you a practical way to explore non-local mind and to steer its subtle currents toward your desired future.
“Trust the quiet spark within; as you dream and intend, the universe leans in and answers.”
The Advance of Consciousness
Begin modestly; the seed reaches for dawn.
When fear stirs, trust the Mother who shelters and lifts.
Advance together; shared steps erase regret.
Restrain hungry haste; the daylight rat invites peril.
Doubt clears; stride ahead on the brightened road.
Let your blazing force restore order, then rest in stillness.
Events are simply events; only the restless mind turns them into storms. Breathe, watch, let them pass, and in that stillness you meet the unshakable Self that guides, creates, and remains free.
“When the mind of Tao leads, the ego surrenders, and all things flow with quiet grace.”
Walk the path with the taste of wonder on your tongue. Welcome each crest and valley, for the hill sings and the hollow teaches quiet strength.
Guard the garden of your mind; let no stray weed of doubt root there. Wherever you place your gaze, your life-force follows. Feed it joy, water it with calm, and the whole journey will glow.
“Accept and surrender until the ego melts, then drink the river of life and taste its endless joy.”
Key of Tuning
The one who walks through fire
and drifts on clouds
is the same silent listener.
Heaven sings, hell growls,
yet only a single ear receives.
Frequencies rise and fall,
but the heart stays still.
Dive deep, soar high,
the ocean of sky is one water.
Learn the currents,
know where each swell begins.
Broadcasters shout of glory and ruin;
you choose the station.
Consent is the knob,
awareness the hand that turns it.
Ten-thousand upon ten-thousand waves appear,
crest, and vanish.
Present and absent share one root,
empty yet full.
Be calm.
You are the key and the lock.
Tune, or rest in the unmoved signal.
In knowing this,
you swim nowhere
and arrive everywhere.
The Three Laws from the Abyss
“Born of silence, tested in breakdown, polished in the fire of return.”
The abyss is a double-edged sword.
Look too lightly and it will swallow you.
Look too deeply and you may forget the way back.
Enter, receive, experience, transcend.
This is the rhythm of the cross-roads where dualities meet and vanish.
Law I — Love Yourself
Outer form: Cherish your own self.
Inner truth: Self and other are a single field. No gap, no seam.
When you meet the world with radical self-compassion, you meet every being at once.
Love becomes a mirror in which the One recognises itself.
Law II — Act Without Fear
Outer form: Step in brave authenticity.
Inner truth: Freedom is native. Choice is sovereign.
Fear is a ghost that vanishes when faced.
Stand in the open moment and act.
Nothing is here to bind you except the stories you keep alive.
Law III — Do Without Source
Outer form: Shape without dependency.
Inner truth: Everything is source and nothing is source.
Manifest and unmanifest are two sides of the same coin,
dissolving the instant you name them.
Move as spontaneous emptiness.
Shape arises, shape dissolves, yet awareness remains unborn.
Self-actualisation refines the local self to its brightest potential; self-realisation turns that refined gaze beyond the self into the boundless.
- Love Yourself heals the ego until it reflects every face it meets.
- Act Without Fear frees that healed self to move cleanly through the world.
- Do Without Source drops the last dependency, opening a view where all acts arise from the same silent depth.
Thus the outer forms mature the person; the inner truths reveal the limitless field that was present all along. One path, two phases: local mastery, then universal recognition.
The Spiral Beyond Experience
- Receive: welcome what is given.
- Experience: taste it fully, hold nothing back.
- Transcend: release the tasting and return to the nameless.
You are the key, the lock, and the open sky.
Learn to swim without hooks. Move through life without clinging to fixed forms, yet rest on a form when you grow weary—just as a bird settles on a branch before flying on. The Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6 .8 .2 offers the image:
“As a bird tied by a cord flies in every direction and, finding no place of rest, returns to the very cord to which it is bound, so the mind, after wandering everywhere, returns to prāṇa, the life-breath to which it is bound.”
Forms steady you for a moment; freedom begins when you lift off again—branchless, unhooked, at home in the open sky.
Indeed, only This is here—sheer Emptiness brimming with everything. It cannot be named, yet it can be tasted, though its taste escapes all words. Such is the cosmic jest: every journey rests in Silence.
Live fully—there is nothing to lose.
The Living Circuit
“Across the hush of ages every galaxy tilted its flame so that in this single breath your gaze might touch mine. Here the Infinite recognises itself, and the whole theatre of worlds melts into one radiant hush.”
This forward is a tour of the inner landscape. It begins with a simple symbol, two mirrored bowls joined by a single line and crowned by a circle, then shows how that shape mirrors your own psyche.
The lower bowl holds hidden feelings, the stem is the breath that unites, and the circle is quiet awareness.
By following your breath up and down this axis, subconscious material rises, thought grows light, and the unmanifest shines through every action.
Imagine your inner life as a simple shape. A lower bowl cradles forgotten feelings and ancestral memories. A vertical stem rises from that depth like a reed through water. At the summit rests a circle of quiet awareness, already whole. It is a map of how consciousness ripens.
1. The lower bowl: hidden material
Every hurt, thrill, and reflex the waking mind could not face slid downward for storage. The bowl keeps nothing evil, only unprocessed. When we resist it, it ferments into tension and compulsive thought. When we welcome it, it becomes compost for wisdom.
2. The stem: breath as passage
Each inhale is a traveler. It lifts from the bowl, climbs the stem, and reaches the circle. Each exhale returns, washing the depths with light. Yogis call this central channel suṣumṇā, alchemists call it axis mundi, therapists call it the line of self-reflection. Names differ, the function is one: safe exchange.
3. The circle: super-conscious presence
The circle is the witness that never sleeps. It needs no repair. Its only wish is to include everything. When the breath touches it, we taste calm that is older than the story of “me”.
4. Integration in motion
Practice is simple:
- Sit upright.
- Inhale along the stem, sensing lift.
- Pause in the circle, noticing silent clarity.
- Exhale into the bowl, letting any image, ache, or memory drop home.
- Whatever rises on the next inhale is greeted, named without judgment, and carried upward.
- Repeat for a few cycles, then rest.
At first the traffic is thick. Forgotten griefs appear like travelers at dawn. Stay patient. Naming them, anger, worry, longing—grants them passage. Soon the current flows without turbulence. Breath, feeling, and awareness form one circuit.
5. Signs the circuit is complete
- Emotional triggers soften; you respond rather than react.
- Dreams grow vivid yet friendly, then gradually luminous.
- Spontaneous gratitude surfaces for no outer reason.
- A sense of self pervades the whole body instead of hovering behind the eyes.
Completion of the circuit turns fate into choice.
6. Living from the sphere
With practice the two bowls feel less like separate halves and more like a single sphere of energy around a bright axis. The circle is no longer an occasional summit; it saturates the field.
Action arises from calm, and calm moves inside action. Creativity replaces compulsive repetition. Compassion replaces projection.
7. Letting it stay smooth, not neurotic
Integration does not mean chasing every shadow. It means offering each one a safe crossing. Force jams the line; relaxed attention clears it. If agitation appears, slow the breath, widen the pause, and feel gravity in the hips. Presence returns, traffic resumes.
The symbol teaches that nothing essential is missing. The Self already shines at the crown. The task is simply to keep the passage open so life can circulate without blockage. Breath is the tool, awareness is the guide, patience is the atmosphere. When lower bowl, stem, and circle converse freely, the psyche stands complete, and living itself becomes effortless ritual.
Can mind rest utterly, and can we live in a continuous stream of effortless flow?
Absolute void of mentation is a fleeting blink. In nirvikalpa samādhi or deep Zen absorption, thought does stop, yet it resumes the instant the yogi returns to speech or motion.
The lived possibility is not a permanent blank page but a page on which words appear and fade without leaving stains. Awareness recognises each word as ink made of itself, so clinging never forms.
“Thoughts are guests; awareness is the host.”
— Zen saying
The paradox of the manifesting Unmanifest
Reality seems to flow downward:
- Timeless silence ➜ universe of energy and form ➜ individual mind.
When the personal mind quiets, the same river is felt in reverse:
- Individual mind relaxes ➜ universal field shines through ➜ silence knows itself.
Silence and flow are two faces of one movement. The Unmanifest does not become thoughtless; it has never left thought-free stillness. Our task is to notice this in the midst of activity.
Why a stable flow feels rare
Evolution wired the cortex to scan, label, and anticipate. These reflexes are not enemies; they are guardians of survival. Flow emerges when guardians trust the field enough to soften their grip. Training is therefore not annihilation of thought but education of attention.
Living the question
No-thought as an enduring state may belong only to sages in caves, but thought-light presence is available to every household life. The measure is not how long silence lasts but how quickly one returns to it after turbulence.
“The mind makes a wave. The heart lets it pass.” — Kabir
Remain curious. Each breath up the axis polishes the line; each breath down nourishes the roots. Over months the circuit completes itself again and again until you realise it was never broken.
Bottom line
Perfect blankness is a momentary window, yet an ordered, luminous flow is fully attainable. The method is simple attention, rhythmic breath, compassionate naming, and relaxed embodiment. Practice continues; discovery is already here.
The silence that never becomes anything and the world that never stops becoming are both present in this exact breath. To live awake is simply to notice:
- The body feels, so you feel it.
- A thought arises, so you watch it without clinging.
- The quiet between thoughts is already open, so you rest there for a heartbeat.
- Action is needed, so you act from that same quiet.
Nothing has to be added, removed, or postponed. The unmanifest shines as awareness; the manifest dances as sensations, thoughts, and deeds. Meeting each moment with clear attention is how the two reveal themselves as one life—alive, here, now.
Unmanifest is the silent source, the unmoving potential.
Manifest is the song that source sings—every letter, breath, heartbeat, and star.
They are not two. Silence is singing, and the song is made of silence.
Right now:
- I shape words.
- You receive them.
- Awareness notices both shaping and receiving.
That noticing is God tasting God.
Joy is simply recognising this unity while the play goes on.
Remain with the immediacy of each act—writing, reading, breathing—and the difference between the hidden and the shown dissolves into one living brightness.
“The universe arranged every star so this single gaze could happen. Eye meets eye, God beholds God, and all else falls away into quiet light.”
The journey ends where it always begins: in the freshness of this very breath. Every moment rises brand-new, untouched by the stories we told ourselves a heartbeat ago. When we meet it without dragging the past behind us, perception clears, possibilities widen, and action flows straight from living awareness instead of old habit.
Let the memories stay as gentle echoes, useful but no longer chains. Greet the unfolding present like first light on an open horizon, curious and unburdened. In that openness you are already free, and life reveals itself—ever new, ever whole.
“Walk free of everything we once called known.”
