As, subjectively, letters flow into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our being.
- The hinge: the ego is a prison built from resistance — it exists only when you say no. Wherever there is total yes, the ego dissolves. This technique makes you porous so the entire universe converges through your being. The infinite cannot converge on a narrow atomic ego — only on infinite space. Become that space.
- Prerequisite: accept life’s fundamental insecurity. There is no path to security; every attempt kills what it tries to protect — love secured becomes marriage, which kills the love. Insecurity is not merely unavoidable; it is alive and beautiful, the very energy of life. Without accepting this, the walls stay up and the technique cannot work.
- First step: sit under a tree in a breeze. Don’t let the wind pass by you — feel it passing through you, from every pore. This is not imagination: every cell breathes. If only the nose breathed, you’d die within three hours; millions of pores breathe right now. You have only forgotten what is already happening.
- Extend to other senses: sit under the rising sun, feel rays entering and passing through you. Listen to a temple bell with the whole body — every pore drinking the sound. (Round temples were built so sound converges from all walls onto the center; use that design consciously.)
- Marker: the moment you notice you are no longer resisting — not fighting touch, sound, gaze, or air — you suddenly feel the ego is not there. Become an astik: one who says yes to everything, even death, never closing the door. The ‘enemy’ outside exists only because you defend against him.
- Q&A nuance (Q1 — discourse 54): if you feel that openness exposes you to negative vibrations, you are not yet open. Negativity is your interpretation of what you resist. When there is truly no resistance, nothing is negative — not even death. The fear of negativity is itself the closure; it proves you are still defending. Do not ask how to protect yourself after opening — that question cannot arise in genuine openness.
- End-state: the I and the YOU both vanish simultaneously — ‘you’ exists only in reference to ‘I’; when I disappears, the other disappears too. What remains is simple existence: beginningless, endless, no center — infinite sky.