The Void Teachings - # 2

Feel free to read my intro to The Void Teachings #1, in the earlier post, in order to understand the background to this series.

September 4, 2003

Always ask what are you most afraid of and then send your love to those fears. Know that love and fear cannot coexist together. What does it mean to send love to fear? To love it as a parent would a child who has hurt herself. To recognize that the fear is temporary and is begging to simply be embraced. Fear hates to be pushed away. So embrace it, love it and listen to what it wants. ( a pause...)

Do you have more to say?

Oh, yes (laughter)- always much more. Now about stillness- know that in the non-movement you will learn to feel the living movement and pulse that is in all things. Sounds like an oxymoron, but there you have it. The more still you become, the more you will sense and feel and become. The Hebrew word שקט (quiet) contains the same letters as קשט (decorate). And, indeed, God has chosen to decorate the world with a stillness that speaks, that moves and feels with a resounding beauty.

Where is that in each one of us?

In each one of your cells, in every particle that comprises you.

But I remember learning in high school chemistry about how the electrons zip around the cell nucleus. That hardly seems like stillness to me.

In every cell and particle there is a great deal of space. From this emptiness all is formed. Modern physicists will become more aware of this apparent mystery.

I'm not at all sure I get what you mean.

The point is that you have made a business of busy-ness and from that place very little that is true is created. Creation takes place in the void. Therefore, bless, bless and bless again the seeming voids in your life. They are the source of great creation.

If it seems to go counter to your intution, think of it like this. You know that on the seventh day the Sabbath is created, a time of not doing, of simply being. This is the original state from which all things came. Those cycles of creation from the void are infinite.