Can you discover or experience something which is indescribable?

Mystical Night, by Michael Z Tyree

It all starts with the Wholeness. The Wholeness is indescribable since it can´t be put in opposition to anything.

By negating itself the Wholeness becomes describable. A Great Vision arises, a world aspect of sound-colours and symbol-structures, an ocean of vibrant, sound-filled energy fields, which shimmer in symbols and colours. The music of the spheres. The universal images in time.

Due to the negation-power, the universal images become split. This is in fact a great sacrifice. Collective and personal images arise like signs of eternity, like dreaming tracks and songlines. The Masters see and hear these signs, and myth and religion arise.

What you are concerned with in Meditation as an Art of Life—as an individual, not as a group—is to find out what is beyond the beliefs and theories, beyond the sentimental hopes and intellectual assertions of the various myths and religions.

You are trying to experience directly for ourselves if there is such a thing as Reality, something more than personal and collective images, which are what most myths and religions are, however pleasant, however comforting. They can serve as frames of references.

Can the mind find out, experience directly? Because direct experience alone has validity. Can you, as an individual, by going into this question now, discover or experience something which is indescribable?

You must ask this question in a meditative-existential way, with the whole of your mind and heart. Because such an experience - if it is valid, if it is not just an illusion, a vision, a passing fantasy - as an extraordinary significance in life. Such an experience transforms one’s life and brings about a morality that is not mere social respectability.

So, is it possible for you to experience that which is indescribable? Just to say yes or no would be an absurdity. All that you can do is to find out if the mind is capable of experiencing something which is not a projection of its own demands.

How is one, being serious and earnest, to set about it? Because without the fragrance, without the perfume of that Great Vision, life is very shallow, materialistic, miserable; there is constant tension, striving, ceaseless pain and suffering.

So, a serious person must surely ask himself this question: Is it possible to experience something which is not a mere wish or intellectual concept from which one derives a certain satisfaction but something entirely new, beyond the fabrications of the mind? And if it is possible, then what is one to do? How is one to set about it?

I think there is only one approach to this problem, which is to see that until I know myself, until I know the whole content of the mind, the unconscious as well as the conscious, with all its intricate workings - until I am cognizant of all that, fully aware of it, I cannot possibly go beyond.

You can only know yourself as you are by observing your living from day to day, watching yourself in the mirror of your relationship with another. To watch yourself in that mirror is not to be merely introspective or objective, but to be constantly alert, watchful of what is taking place in the mind, in yourself.

This is an ethical practice, but it is an ethical practice with a metaphysical foundation, not an ideological foundation.

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