Finding the Gap

 

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Finding the Gap

If we expect anything from life, we will not get anything. When we don’t expect anything, things just start happening. Don’t expect, don’t ask, and it showers upon us miraculously. All its magic is there. Just wait a little while without thoughts… but that seems to be impossible.

Thoughts fill our head. They come one after another. Sometimes, they come all at once. Before we have ceased in one thought, another one has already risen. It is a busy mind that all of us have.

Thoughts of worry and fear add unnecessary burden to our minds. When we cultivate present moment awareness, there is no space for inner speech. We are completely taken by the presence of the moment. One way of developing inner silence is to recognise the space between thoughts.

Not that there are no moments when we are without thoughts. All those who have entered into their own inner space, they know there are gaps. But we are missing them somehow, because those gaps are in the present. We jump from one thought to another, and in between the thoughts the gap was there – and we missed it. In between was the heaven – but we jump from one hell to another.

There is a silent space between thoughts – the gap between thoughts. It is the space where the mind stands still. No thoughts exist in this space. Hence, it is in this gap that we can experience present moment awareness. From cultivating present moment awareness, inner wisdom and joy arises.

In between is heaven, but we don’t stop in between – we miss the gap. We race from one thought to another thought. Each thought feeds our ego, helps us to be, defines us, gives us a boundary, a shape, a form, an identity. We don’t look in the gap between the two thoughts because to look into that gap is to look into our original face, which has no identity. To look into that gap is to look into eternity, where we are going to be lost.

We have become so afraid of looking into the gap that we have almost managed to forget them. Between two thoughts there is a gap, but we don’t see it. We see one thought, then we see another thought, then another thought…. Just watch a little. The thoughts are not overlapping. Each thought is separate. In between the two there must be a gap. There is a gap, and that interval is the door. From that door we will enter into existence again.

Meditation under the guidance of a realised Master helps us in finding that gap, and with regular practice the gaps increase. In those gaps we find the silence, the nothingness which takes us into the void where there is just the present moment. When we are in full awareness of the moment, in the gap, the time dimension disappears and we find the joy and bliss of the here and now resonating in silence!