When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.