The secret nameless path
The secret nameless path
By rohanchalmersauthor
Once he regained his composure, he began to analyse what he had before him.
In Pali, not Tibetan, were the following words;
The secret nameless path
1 degree off the middle way
Left or right, a lateral focus
Introduces tension.
A subtle disturbing vibration
A subtle discord
Confronting the negative
Directly.
The possibility of resolution
A direct path to
Reality.
Failure equals
A negative union
For Eternity.
In this fragment from the story, Rinpoche has been given a clue; a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that will help him on his quest to find Maya.
When I was a child, I like many others, would dream of different worlds completely alien from our own. Places where the imagination could run wild.
As I got older and as I became more aware of the power of meditation, different mental experiences would occur that matured my concept of different places or worlds that may be able to be accessed, no longer through the physical limitations of travel but experiencing different possiblities through mind.
People have experimented with hallucinogenic, mind altering drugs for thousands of years to open different channels in the mind. These experiments are dangerous. These experiments could be compared to a non driver getting in a car, turning it on wearing a blindfold and accelerating without your hands on the wheel. The drugs may take you for a ride, but without having exercised the mind, without having learned to drive the car through lessons and passing the initiation, disaster is waiting to happen.
I am nowhere near understanding the fuller potentials of the mind, but I have had glimpses that have introduced me to what may be possible if we explore mind further. It’s not a question of re-inventing the wheel. Instruction has been developed over thousands of years.
Much focus on meditation is based on the search for the middle path.
Like the story of the sitar teacher who told his student if the string is too tight it will snap, if it’s too loose, this is of no use either. When the tension on the string is just write we can play beautiful music (this being my own modified adaption of the story), but the message is about balance, about finding the path through the valley, to travel along the path opened by the parting seas.
For the sake of the story, I have imagined a place of slight discord where the vibration isn’t melodic but slightly off key; This place being slightly off centre is an imaginary idea I have used to take the the characters to a place which exists in a different dimension, and in this case, a dark space.
It’s like walking along a path at night that’s well lit. Keep to the path and you will be ok; be curious and venture to either side into the darkness could be dangerous. In this story, the travel into dark space are journeys into hellish states.
Sometimes we need to pass through these places to earn our right of passage; to come out at the end as stronger people. For the main character Rinpoche to fail, is not just about personal danger but could have consequences for all dimensions wherever they may or may not be.
By rohanchalmersauthor
Once he regained his composure, he began to analyse what he had before him.
In Pali, not Tibetan, were the following words;
The secret nameless path
1 degree off the middle way
Left or right, a lateral focus
Introduces tension.
A subtle disturbing vibration
A subtle discord
Confronting the negative
Directly.
The possibility of resolution
A direct path to
Reality.
Failure equals
A negative union
For Eternity.
In this fragment from the story, Rinpoche has been given a clue; a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that will help him on his quest to find Maya.
When I was a child, I like many others, would dream of different worlds completely alien from our own. Places where the imagination could run wild.
As I got older and as I became more aware of the power of meditation, different mental experiences would occur that matured my concept of different places or worlds that may be able to be accessed, no longer through the physical limitations of travel but experiencing different possiblities through mind.
People have experimented with hallucinogenic, mind altering drugs for thousands of years to open different channels in the mind. These experiments are dangerous. These experiments could be compared to a non driver getting in a car, turning it on wearing a blindfold and accelerating without your hands on the wheel. The drugs may take you for a ride, but without having exercised the mind, without having learned to drive the car through lessons and passing the initiation, disaster is waiting to happen.
I am nowhere near understanding the fuller potentials of the mind, but I have had glimpses that have introduced me to what may be possible if we explore mind further. It’s not a question of re-inventing the wheel. Instruction has been developed over thousands of years.
Much focus on meditation is based on the search for the middle path.
Like the story of the sitar teacher who told his student if the string is too tight it will snap, if it’s too loose, this is of no use either. When the tension on the string is just write we can play beautiful music (this being my own modified adaption of the story), but the message is about balance, about finding the path through the valley, to travel along the path opened by the parting seas.
For the sake of the story, I have imagined a place of slight discord where the vibration isn’t melodic but slightly off key; This place being slightly off centre is an imaginary idea I have used to take the the characters to a place which exists in a different dimension, and in this case, a dark space.
It’s like walking along a path at night that’s well lit. Keep to the path and you will be ok; be curious and venture to either side into the darkness could be dangerous. In this story, the travel into dark space are journeys into hellish states.
Sometimes we need to pass through these places to earn our right of passage; to come out at the end as stronger people. For the main character Rinpoche to fail, is not just about personal danger but could have consequences for all dimensions wherever they may or may not be.
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