The Vikid Fast - Day 13 of 20
Trinity & Mountain Top
Trinity
The mind is a genuine trickster. It can make things which are real unreal and unreal real. Over the last two weeks I have found that I am separating from it. It’s a separation between the Thinking Mind, Body and Intuition. And I am beginning to see that these aspects a very much different things and at the same time they are part of the same unity, a Trinity.
In many ways we are not any of them. We are that which observes, that which is aware of what is, that which binds them.
This is one of the main benefits of fasting.
By stopping the ingestion of food and by allowing the body to work with the energy self contained, much of the effects and turbulence caused by external energies are eliminated.
Food is energy and this energy comes in many forms. Some of it, especially if you have bad nutrition, effects your whole system adversely, with your ability think, feel and intuit impaired.
By meditating and cutting out media, you help calm the mind down by first allowing it to deal with what is already there.
In this Information Age we are being bombarded with data, much of it carrying subliminal messages that bypass even our most sophisticated filters. This information then festers in our minds causing havoc, confusion and disease. This is what I feel much of modern mental illness is and I’ve suffered greatly from this.
By focusing on the spiritual and observing the mind-body we raise our natural intuition, that part of us that knows without thinking, bringing more balance to the Trinity. This is critical for spiritual progress.
Mountain Top
And by doing all this, we start to discover a further truth.
That we are none of the above either. These faculties are like the clothes you wear. They are nice to have on, to keep you warm, fashionable and shielded from walking around naked but they are not you.
To be fair, these notions are just slowly becoming part of my awareness, I have still not embodied these realities like a zen master. However, there seems to be some breaking of the veil, some barrier that has been surpassed from which I can at least begin to see the possibilities.
What was once merely words in book, what was once blanketed with fog, has become the real vista of a cloud covered mountain top seen from base camp. I have my gear, my headlamp, my crampons and axe but no ropes. What is now needed is some determination and a plan to ascend the summit.
As for guides, I have none with me. Some teachers who have been there before to whisper in my ears, some sit on top. When the clouds recede for a brief moment, I can see them waving me up… but I can only see them with binoculars and have to decipher what they are saying with hand gestures.
“Come on up, go that way!”
Then the clouds cover them up again.
So I sit in base camp wondering what to do. Wait for the weather to get better, will it? Wait for some other lonely voyager to pass me in this vast terrain, so I can follow? Run back home with wonderful stories about the vistas I’ve seen and give up? Or go on a unchartered expedition into the unknown?
So I sit thinking, meditating and fasting…
That’s all Folks!
The Vikid Truth