After wards we read the following - the first half proposing that depression is brought on by the absence of spirit in ones life. The second a way to see who we are and know MU.
A SPIRITUAL VIEW OF DEPRESSION
The
hunger of the soul for light, especially when the language of
spirituality has not been acquired fully, can be both painful and
confusing. A person can feel lost, misunderstood, out of place,
with a sense of not belonging anywhere. In fact, without the
spiritual underpinnings anchored in awareness, it can feel like one
doesn’t even belong to oneself. This nameless thing that it
is possible to long for involves hunger at the deepest level.
It is a hunger for spiritual light.
Although
we generally experience symptoms of depression as primarily physical
and emotional, their essential core may lie in something that cannot
be seen that is of a spiritual nature, namely, the relative absence
of the energy of light. When missing, the absence of light can
feel like the sun covered over for long periods of time by dark
clouds, causing a sense of yearning for warmth and radiance and in
some, a sense of depletion and fatigue. This yearning can be
completely unknown to the one experiencing it who may only feel the
result of what is missing, not the cause.
Light
of a higher vibration than physical light is a spiritual energy –
part of the energy of Creation. This light has been with us since the
beginning, referred to in the Book of Genesis as the primary
utterance - “let there be light.” When translated onto the
physical level, it becomes a powerful force for healing and change,
helping all beings to evolve and human beings to transcend the
limitations of darkness that they may have carried for a very long
time. In many instances, thoughts, feelings, and physical
symptoms associated with depression are each influenced by the
absence or presence of spiritual light which both supports and
regulates a flow of energy to the brain and to other organs,
enhancing and maintaining their many functions.
Often,
a soul may be hungry for light and not know what it is that they are
hungry for. Frequently, this hunger feels formless and
nameless, occurring only in relation to the feeling that there is
something missing - a place of emptiness that cannot be filled.
Those who are more behaviorally-focused may point to activities of a
more meaningful kind that could help with this emptiness including
work and relationships with others, and this is frequently true: such
activities often help. However, sometimes the soul that is
hungry finds that nothing will do – that no activity, no work, and
no relationship can make a difference in terms of what the inner self
is actually seeking. The emptiness feels beyond that.
The
hunger of the soul for light, especially when the language of
spirituality has not been acquired fully, can be both painful and
confusing. A person can feel lost, misunderstood, out of place,
with a sense of not belonging anywhere. In fact, without the
spiritual underpinnings anchored in awareness, it can feel like one
doesn’t even belong to oneself. Then, there is a kind of gray
pallor that is cast over existence as one goes through the motions of
living, with the feeling that everything should be
alright, but isn’t. This nameless thing that it is possible
to long for involves a hunger at the deepest level. It is both
a hunger for spiritual connection - for a relationship with the
universe in which there is a sense of belonging and home. It is
also a hunger of the body to be filled with light and a recognition,
usually beyond words, that we suffer from a sense of depletion.
This hunger of the body can occur more powerfully in those who have
been exposed to great spiritual light previously, often in other
lifetimes. Where this exposure has created a living, embodied
experience of connection with God and with the higher realms, one who
has lost this connection often feels a mysterious and poignant sense
of emptiness.
There
is no instant remedy for this situation, for things of the spirit for
the most part do not happen instantly. But they can happen in a
relatively short span of time, once it is recognized that it is light
that is longed for, and once the search begins for an adequate way of
providing it.
Pointing
at MU (Nothing)
Point
at something nearby and look You are observing a 'thing'. In other
words, at this range it has form, color, opacity ...Now point at something else. The floor, for example. Observe that it too, at this range, is a 'thing'.
Point at your shoe. Another 'thing'.
Point at your torso -- yet another 'thing'. At this range it too has form, color, opacity ...
We now come to the most important part -- turning your attention round 180 degrees and looking back at the place you are looking out of. Point back at the place where others see your face. (Actually do this.) You are now pointing at the one place that is no distance from you.
What do you see?
Are you pointing at another thing now? Going by present evidence, not by memory or imagination, is there any color, shape, opacity or 'thingness' here? Do you see your face here? Do you see eyes or cheeks or chin here?
Put aside assumptions and expectations and look as if for the first time. Only you are in a position to see what you are at center, since you alone are your side of your pointing finger. Don't rely on what you think is there. Rely on looking.
Here is my experience. Where others see my face, I see nothing. There is my pointing finger with the room beyond it, but here where it's pointing is nothing -- no face, no eyes, no cheeks, no teeth. I am looking out of space, clearness, transparency, emptiness, MU. In fact, I am this space, this clearness.
In this spacious emptiness is now presented my finger, the scene beyond, various tickles and itches, passing thoughts and feelings.
Keep pointing at -- and looking at -- the place where others see your face. Be curious and attentive. What is the nature of this place you have assumed is solid, head-shaped, human? Rely directly on your present experience, not on thinking. Don't assume you know and therefore needn't look. Don't take other people's view of you from several metres as reliable evidence for what you are at center. Have an open mind and take a fresh look at yourself.
You are now seeing who you really are. 'But I see nothing!' you may object. Yes, I see nothing too. But this is a very special nothing. For a start it's awake -- awake to itself as no-thing. (It's not an unconscious nothing, unaware of itself, dead.)
It's also a no-thing that is awake to what it contains -- which is everything, from your pointing finger to the stars in the night sky. This empty space is room for the universe. You are that space and all it embraces. But you may find that seeing your no-thingness isn't 'wow' experience. That's alright. It doesn't have to be dramatic. We are simply paying attention to what is given. Or not given.
We are not trying to generate mystical feelings or get high. That may or may not happen. In fact, exciting mystical experiences can sometimes confuse the issue, diverting us from the simplicity and truth at center into those attractive states of body and mind.
