Ironically Understanding the Vividness of Nothingness

December 21, 2012 - I sit in half-lotus position - surrendering all grasp to image, feeling, emotion, sensation, knowledge - and unsplash into an infinite ocean of absolute awareness and nothing more; awareness that is aware of "my" mind's quasi-subconscious tendency to "understand" what "enlightenment" is, and in abiding as this pure, empty awareness - of form and not as the form itself, including the form of thought attempting to understand a state of pure thoughtlessness - ironically understanding...