Not I, Not other than I: The Life And Teachings Of Russel Williams

by Russel Williams

Here, for a moment or two, we have been able to sharpen the consciousness to a degree, to its most subtle state, so it is not pointed in any way but spread, so it might detect the slightest movement, if movement were there… You couldn’t experience that peacefulness and warmth without a subtle form of feeling. It’s not as coarse as the normal sense, and as it spreads further out, it begins to detect things of a deeper nature, which are always there, even though you never noticed them before. I won’t tell you what they are; you’ll find out for yourself. It’s almost as though consciousness is developing such gentle perception that you could compare it to a finger, soft and warm, touching a snowflake, sensing its nature, but so delicate that the flake doesn’t melt. We should endeavour to develop that type of consciousness, with a similar expansive nature, in a peripheral sense. The whole 180 degrees, the whole 360 degrees, rather than just a limited point. This is what gradually happens, as we become more familiar with this mode. Nothing will happen with meditation by itself. As you practise this gentleness of perception, of consciousness, you’ll find that at any point in time in your daily life, you’ll pick up on things that you never noticed before. This is where you begin to see the nature of things. When it happens in your daily living now – as opposed to in meditation – there is a reality, and we begin to see that what we perceive as normal is false. And this is how we fr...