By Suzanne Deakins, H.W., M.
Consciousness cannot be either conveyed in speech or silence. It is in that state between that its transcendental nature is apprehended.
Reading about consciousness and studying the great scholars can only take you to the edges of insight. For consciousness to be understood there has to be an opening and surrendering to the Tao of it. It demands discipline and training. Because the Tao of any idea is infinite and abstract, formless, no definition, no quantitative outline can bring it into a working reality for the seeker. The nature of the Tao of Consciousness is in its longevity. The training must embody the ancient ideas as well as the evolutionary results of the unfoldment of mind.
The infinite manifestation of consciousness allows us to know that the Tao is different for each generation, each person as they explore within. It is not enough to read about consciousness, to attain a working reality the mind must be trained and focused as well as freed from unrelated concepts and desires.
Translation is the training that brings the mind to intuitive grasp the Tao of Consciousness. If the seeker is disciplined it brings them to a place of surrendering to the ancient process embodied within practice. Translation is neither old nor new. It exists as all Taos do in a spaceless, formless reality of mind. The metaphors we use to describe life are transcendental and as infinite in their definition as life itself. We can only hope that the pictures we paint with words and thought connect to another.
The training is Translation, the discipline is the use and practices. Translation is an extension of the art of living. The rules and principles of Translation have their origin in heaven (the place in mind where the creator source, consciousness, resides). The practice of it is an earthly reality that allows the beauty, harmony, and peace to be experienced. Translation removes humanity (those who practice) from intransigence to the beauty, and harmony of that which is so in the nature of reality.
© 2022 Suzanne Deakins
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*Tao is the unseen flow of life behind all that is and is not.