Leviticus 16:2 · World English Bible
and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
The innermost place cannot be entered casually, at any time the mind chooses, driven by curiosity or ambition. There is a threshold within where the noise of the self must first fall silent.
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EGO & BEING
The innermost place cannot be entered casually, at any time the mind chooses, driven by curiosity or ambition. There is a threshold within where the noise of the self must first fall silent. To come before the deepest presence still carrying the whole restless personality is to be undone by it.
And the presence appears in a cloud, not in sharp mental clarity. The thinking mind wants to grasp and define, to see the sacred as one more object it can name. But the depth is met only through a kind of unknowing, a soft and formless awareness. When you approach the center of your being that way, quiet and empty of the demanding self, you are not destroyed but received.
Ego v. Being lens
Where are you demanding clarity when what is offered is depth?
The name is not the thing. The moment you pin it down with a word you are holding the label, not the depth.
Come empty and there is room for something to enter. Come full of your own expertise and there is nowhere for it to land.
The lover is undone before being received. What the ego wanted to possess can only be met once the ego stops demanding.
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Ego v. Being