Daily Excerpt: A Guide to Bliss (Tubali) - Your First Step into Expansion
Excerpt from A Guide to Bliss -
Your First Step into Expansion
Everything in this universe is a structure. Every phenomenon in this universe has frontiers and sidewalls, particular shapes, characteristics, and attributes. This does not apply only to visible forms— everyone knows that an African elephant possesses a shape, a color, a character, and a repetitive pattern of behavior—but also to subtler phenomena, such as thoughts, emotions, and sensations, as well as ideas, beliefs, symbols, and human patterns of behavior. In fact, even the universe has a structure, which we can reflect through our consciousness, and indeed, even our consciousness itself has a structure.
The discovery that everything has a structure, and therefore, that everything has a limit, is of crucial importance and goes far beyond mere philosophical implications. Actually, the moment one identifies a structure and its limitations, one can easily transcend it; dis covering that which lies beyond limits implies the ability to break through boundaries and to become much broader and freer than the distinct structure itself.
In popular language, it is common to tell a person who is too fixated on a certain pattern of thinking to “Think outside of the box!” Well, this is exactly what we are doing here together. The purpose of this book is to break through limitations, yours and mine. Together, we shall learn to identify structures and then to move beyond their limitations. Whenever we break through a limit, it will become clear to us that we have been somewhat transformed, that we have undergone a tremendous change in our consciousness, thoughts, emotions and feelings. Thus, we will realize that we can be much more than we have ever thought or even imagined possible.
Commonly, the way we use the capacities of our consciousness is pretty narrow: accumulating memory, storing information and knowledge, interpreting on the basis of memory and knowledge, espousing ideas, having uncontrolled dreams, and less commonly, engaging in creative activity through the power of our imagination and subconscious or delving into a scientific inquiry that takes advantage of our capacity for objective thinking. Nevertheless, the truth is that our consciousness bears an enormous, if not inconceivable, scope of flexible directions and motions, and we can delve into it for an entire lifetime and still remain unfulfilled. Just like outer space with its billions of galaxies, which astounds us in its countless possible discoveries, so, too, our consciousness holds within itself a tremendous range of possible experiences, insights, and subtle dimensions.
Some portion of this range has been unveiled by the numerous people throughout human history who have exhausted the potential of meditation and spiritual contemplation. Yet another portion, a quite impressive one, can now be revealed through a highly useful tool of consciousness, which I call “expansion.” The expansion is a tool for ecstatic navigation throughout the depths of consciousness.
To be able to carry out an expansion, we actually need very little: only the power of our consciousness and its hidden senses, which are really not so hidden, as we will soon realize. The expansion enables a breakthrough of limitations, and this breakthrough of limitations enables a revelation of the dormant potential that lies at the heart of whatever we might focus our consciousness on.
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