What is that line? That’s the mystery! I can’t really say. It doesn’t seem to be particularly amenable to concepts. Over the years, mystics and meditators have struggled to come up with language to describe the ineffable. So we get jargon-y spiritual terms like “Being,” or “oneness,” or “awareness,” or “God,” or “the moment,” or even “emptiness.” And actually, my diagram is misleading; this thing/non-thing that I’m trying rather futilely to describe has always been there, in exactly the same “quantity.” It doesn’t change. What changes—what gets wider—is how much we notice and live from this
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