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Jef Bourgeau

The long voyage into night

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G’nite. Luminous dreams.

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This sky orb is not an edit, it’s the clearest picture of VENUS ! The Venus planet (infrared) looks like a chaotic dawn or sunset sky. Images: July 2024, Japanese Akatsuki space probe (for real, not from Naruto: Akatsuki means “DAWN”).

The Pond: a meditation

Go someplace quiet and relax. Relax your body. Relax your mind.

Allow thinking to subside naturally. Cease being concerned with its incessant storytelling. Allow the flickering clutch and contraction of attention to relax and release. Let it run out of energy and subside through indifference. Allow all mental tension to subside, which feels like expansion. Remain unconcerned with any of its already-passing activity. Simply be—not detached; just relaxed and aware, unmoved and unresponsive. Let it all be just as it is.

Allow the mental identity to dissolve. Recognize it for what it actually is: just more thoughts. Allow the physical sensations to fade into indistinguishable background noise; then allow the noise to flow freely. The entire mind-made sense of self is just more activity.

Now, simply be with your awareness as though it was a still, limpid Pond. Everything passes freely across its surface. The light reflects and refracts, and colors constantly change. Clouds form and dissolve, merge and disperse, come and go. Birds and insects slip by, leaving no trace. All of this happens freely; the pond allows for it all equally. It holds into nothing. And despite all this activity, the Pond remains unaffected and unperturbed. The pond does not need to try; its reflective capacity is innate.

Remain this way as long as possible. If thoughts try and arise, remain indifferent to their content; see them as just more movement, and let them go. Remain indifferent but highly aware. Allow the mind the remain bright and open and still.