The Gift Of Threshold Moments
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--Awakin
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Dec 17, 2017

 

This week's Awakin reading is by Sam Keen titled 'The Gift Of Threshold Moments': The thrush’s song belongs to a family of experiences that usher us into a threshold where sound trails off into silence, time disappears into timelessness, and the known world is engulfed by the great mystery. The family includes the reverberating echo of a temple bell that dwindles off into the void; the polyphonic chanting of Tibetan monks that merges into an endless communal chorus; the electric interval between the crash of thunder and the flash of lightening; the awful emptiness when the exhalation of a dying person is not followed by an inspiration; the deep sigh and profound calm that comes in meditation when the mind finally stops chattering; the timeless moment, before sleep or after awakening, when we enter a dream world in which it seems perfectly reasonable that we should fly, change gender, or simultaneously be ourselves and our parents. In these threshold moments, the spirit slips between the synapses ... [Read more]

 

Posted by Awakin on Dec 17, 2017