-Up to now I have discussed functions that operate within the boundary of language. However the real you is not of language.  I now offer you an exercise designed to shift your being to a place that the internal conversation is silent.  The conversation provides a protective shield so do not be at war with it.  We simply want it to quit squashing the eternal part so the eternity can move around.  If one is going to have an internal conversation it might as well be one that is for freedom.

-The goal is subtle, and it is best not to tell why you should do this.  The being of conversation will attach to this and discuss it to death or claim it knows this already.  The internal conversation is confused by the idea of anything beyond its bounds.  It can draw you into pondering the results and goals rather than doing the steps.  I can however say that this meditation is designed to pull power and awareness into your being.  Do not be sure you know what these are, especially if you assume with words.  Words only form a system to express what we know, the words are not the knowledge itself.

-Go for a walk.  Do this daily with an internal feeling of intent.  Do it at dusk or at early sunrise.  Walk erect but not rigid, eyes ahead and not to the ground.  Be alert.  If possible walk towards a scene that is flat and has an expansive unobstructed view of the far away horizon, but any scene will do.  With your eyes you should gaze, without focusing on any particular thing, letting in as much of the 180 degrees in your sight as you can.  Do not zoom into details that you see, let the feeling of your eyes be experienced in your body.  With your hands do something that draws attention to them.  Not something that draws others to you, something simple, tapping the tips of fingers together, dig a nail softly into your palm, wear tight rings.  When your feet hit the ground let them be soft and feel them spread out, feel them as warm soft mud.  Feel the wind on your face, hear the birds singing, the cars coming, the dogs barking, let all this information in at once.  Do not  jump from one to the other, let them all in at once.

-If you live where it is not wise to walk as dusk, sit on something comfortable, pick a blank wall, and then do the same things as listed above. Use the wall as the expansive horizon, the neighborhood sounds as the sounds to let in. But, also be aware and safe. This is not a trance out. You are here, very much here, but inside as a feeling.

-If you have odd sensations, floating, a sense of flying, an extreme calm or internal silence, let these happen.  If you sense of a kind of flash or tear somewhere not physical, or a subtle shift of some sort, or nothing at all, let this happen.  If you hear your thoughts diminish or become totally quiet let that be.

-This is a slow and gradual process, and can take a long time, often years.  Do this walk and the recollection exercise every day and the process speeds up considerably.

-I cannot stress this enough.  

-This is the key to the highway.

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