All The Marvelous Earth

As you walked on the beach the waves were enormous and they were breaking with m
agnificent curve and force. You walked against the wind, and suddenly you felt t
here was nothing between you and the sky, and this openness was heaven. To be so
completely open, vulnerable - to the hills, to the sea, and to man - is the ver
y essence of meditation.
To have no resistance, to have no barriers inwardly towards anything, to be real
ly free, completely, from all the minor urges, compulsions, and demands, with al
l their little conflicts and hypocrisies, is to walk in life with open arms. And
that evening, walking there on that wet sand, with the sea gulls around you, yo
u felt the extraordinary sense of open freedom and the great beauty of love whic
h was not in you or outside you - but everywhere.
And walking on that road, there was complete emptiness of the brain, and the min
d was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yester
days have been. Time, the thing of thought, had stopped; literally there was no
movement before and after; there was no going or arriving or standing still. Spa
ce
as distance was not; there were the hills and bushes but not as high and low. Th
ere was no relationship with anything but there was an awareness of the bridge a
nd the passer-by. The totality of the mind, in which is the brain with its thoug
hts and feelings, was empty; and because it was empty, there was energy, a deepe
ning and widening energy without measure. All comparison, measurement belong to
thought and so to time. The otherness was the mind without time; it was the brea
th of innocence and immensity. Words are not reality; they are only means of com
munication but they are not the innocence and the immeasurable. The emptiness wa
s alone.