Words of Power: Gossamer Web

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Gossamer Web

Rene Magritte - Le Parfum de L'Abîme "The Perfume of the Abyss" (1928)

This whatever I am, this "being" that has been called by the name "Richard Power" for sixty years, this whatever I am, the reality of it is an emptiness, yes, an emptiness, which although vast and void is overflowing, which although neither day nor night is radiant, which although bittersweet is joyful.

And within this emptiness, there is only relationship. "I" and 'Thou."

These relationships stretch out like a gossamer web across an infinitude.

How can relationship exist within an emptiness? Well, space curves in upon itself, creating the phenomena of one point and another. And although there is no center within this emptiness, it nevertheless pulsates, as if from a center. With each pulsation there are ripples of energy, these ripples create the phenomena of lines between the points created by the curving of the space.

Yes, I am an emptiness, and within this emptiness all that exists is this gossamer of relationship.

The nature of the gossamer is the emptiness itself: radiant, joyful, overflowing.

Each of these strands, each of these relationships, appears as if a facet of the jewel of this emptiness, but upon closer inspection, each of these facets is revealed to be another radiant, pulsating emptiness, the space of which curves in upon itself creating the phenomena of one point and another within the radiance, and the pulsation of which ripples outward as if from a non-existent center, creating the further phenomena of lines between the points, all forming an infinite matrix of relationship for which the only descriptor could be "emptiness," yes, a radiant, joyful, overflowing emptiness, which reveals itself to be a gossamer of relationship, which ... Yes ...

It is all love, it is all awareness, it is only this whatever ... Yes ... "I' and "Thou" ... Emptiness and relationship occupying the same space, love and awareness occupying the same space.

-- Richard Power

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About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.