Determined not to give up or allow a block in the flow of the process, finally, the bottom of the pit was reached and up came black despair of overwhelming intensity. In spite of this, there was the knowing that everything would be okay, because the primary identification was not with the despair but with the surrendering itself.
Without dispassion and a detachment from the ego, or small self, there are many terrifying roadblocks. If one is able to identify with formless awareness, it becomes evident that nothing arising in awareness is “you” and what You are is the invisible, formless awareness/consciousness.
