The Thoughtless Gap

[When you are in that still space, that gap between thoughts] the unconditioned consciousness can act and speak through you.

Eckhart Tolle

I know I spend much more time than I ever did in that gap. I see myself slipping into it when I look out at the tops of the flowers emerging from the window box; when I am watching the birds at the feeder, or listening to their songs. 

I really feel it when I am walking in the woods...one step at a time on the path that just goes around in one big circle with no beginning, no ending. Like the moment I suppose.  As I walk without any real thought of "doing", I take in all the sensory information: poplar trees, bigger and older than I have ever seen before, beautiful birch and cedar, new leaves emerging, the smell of honey suckle and apple blossom, the buzzing of insects, the sound of wind or rain in the branches; the huffing and puffing of my dogs as they sniff about tugging and pulling at the leash.  Though I am recalling and recording description now, at the time there is no thinking about these things; no narration- just the felt experience and awareness of them. Time slips away...there is no "when I..." there is just "this, here, now." 

I am not aware at those times of being in the thoughtless gap that I, as one of 8.3 billion human beings,  am experiencing "presence"...I am not aware of a "me" and an "it".  The moment just is and I am it. Everything, including me, all tangled up in one perfect moment of existence. 

It isn't until I reflect on it like I am doing now that I see that I was aware, in a thoughtless gap. Then athe writing comes...the unconditioned consciousness acts and speaks through me and reminds me of where we humans are menat to be.

Hmm!

All is well.