Gary Weber - Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought

Into the Stillness

Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought

G ARY W EBER and R ICH D OYLE

Non-Duality Press

United Kingdom

Gratitude to Suzanne Winters for her tireless efforts on behalf of Stillness.

INTO THE STILLNESS

First edition published May 2015 by Non-Duality Press

Gary Weber and Richard Doyle 2015

Cover design by John Gustard

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Contents

A book has occurred

Rich: So, you know, strangeness. A book has occurred.

Gary: Strangeness. A book has manifested out of thin air.

R: Its totally unbelievable. Where did it come from?

G: Well the whole thing came out of no place, as you know. It just arose in meditation that we should do some dialogues. So we started doing dialogues and they clicked.

R: And then somehow they manifest out of the Stillness and its like a book just popped up out of the void, or out of the nothing, out of the Stillness. What should people do with it?

G: Well, weve talked many times the good thing about it is that its spontaneous. But weve found out that as we do this thing what emerges from each one of us moves into something thats much larger; 1 + 1 = 3 or something. So stuff that we didnt know we knew is in this video and in the dialogues.

R: So that can happen to other people: they can pick up the book and engage in the dialogue and experience the dialogue. And they dont really need to begin or start anywhere in particular.

G: Any place, any page will work, any dialogue will work. Theyre equally useful or not.

R: I even think you can start mid-dialogue, you know, just open it. Its like the book is designed for bibliomancy

G: Oh yes, exactly. Any place in the book will work.

R: Just dip into it, start riffling

G: Well, weve talked about this idea of showing people how to do dialogue, which is something that people dont do much anymore given that were doing this ( texting with thumbs ) all day long, we dont spend much time trying to get into dialogue with somebody. Were just so afraid to have an open discussion without anybody feeling threatened and just let the whole thing unwind its way out.

R: Indeed, you know when Im teaching and I talk about dialogue in the classroom, Ive found that people think dialogue is what you do to avoid fighting. ( Laughter )

R: Like where we get together and figure out how we can agree, and thats not what it is! Its an exploration.

G: Ahhhh, thats great!

R: Isnt that funny?

G: It is! But it is having that confidence, a fundamental trust in each other, and enough self-confidence and awareness to be able to just work your way through this stuff, piece by piece, and kind of feel your way into what the next thing is as it comes up.

R: And its practice in strengthening the letting go muscle because you can just let go into it, dont try to anticipate what the other person is sayingjust hear it and respond.

G: And see what comes up.

R: And when we do that its like a practice for filling our self with Presence all the time. Just feel what the refrigerator door feels like when we open it. See what the light looks like inside. Taste what the onion tastes like when were cooking it. Its the same thing isnt it?

G: Yes, its a very tactile thing. Its the feel of what it feels like to be in dialogue, to be the emptiness and just feeling something come up out of no place as the next thing to be manifested.

R: Sometimes I feel like what were going through is actually a re-awakening of feeling. Not feeling in the sense of an emotionbut that somehow weve been through this period where weve atrophied the sense of access to the flow of what comes from that no place. Its still there, but you have to sort of look for it and use it and practice it. Its an inner feeling? Its the sensing of what it feels like inside.

G: Oh, totally. Weve talked about how its very important in this work, since a lot of it is DIY, to get a good sense for when things feel like they arent working anymore; what they felt like before, and what they feel like now. Have things gotten flat? You can feel that in a tactile way, as you can do with this work. You can feel if youre in honest, authentic dialogue or you can feel yourself being inauthentic. Can you feel yourself not coming out fully with what you want to say, or what is manifesting for you? Or do you hold back?

R: So by following along with our letting go, other people can learn to let go.

G: Let go of themselves just trust the process and surrender to your Self.

R: So, who wrote this book?

G: It came from no place. One of the mysteries is just how do these things write themselves? This book came out of no place. The initiative to do it just arose in meditation and we just said well, lets do a dialogue and see what happens. You had set it up within a space of three or four days and we had found somebody to do it with and we had found a filming studio it just manifested.

R: Miraculous even.

G: Miraculous!

R: But of course everything is miraculous because everything comes out of this place, which is no place.

G: It does!

R: But in this case it was obvious, it was very obvious. If there are any royalties who should we send them to?

G: I dont know where it goes to, because really, as weve observed, there is nobody doing this speaking. Its just coming out of no place, spontaneously, and we get synergies out of it; 1 + 1 = 3.

R: Its only insofar as each of us gets out of the way that it emerges so...

G: Yes.

R: Its not us speaking.

G: No.

R: But something else speaking forth...

G: Right. Things we dont know we knew, come up and they join together in a way thats much more powerful than either individual speech.

R: Indeed. Im convinced we didnt know. You know what I mean?

G: We didnt even know it.

R: It isnt just that we knew it and didnt know it. Its that by creating this space knowledge emerges.

G: It may also be that we had pieces and parts in different parts of the brain, and as we start to do this we call upon whatever the topic is, it goes out and grabs pieces and puts together a story. Out of that comes something that we hadnt known before, or at least it hadnt been organized in quite that way, and it matches with what youre saying and then you do the same thing. So the pieces were there, they just werent assembled in a coherent way.

R: Thats why its going to be interesting to see what pieces people pull out of the book. Its going to be a situation where they get pulled like a magnet to this dialogue or that line or this line. It will differ individually. Then to see what they make of it. Its going to be like a mashup of our mashup.

G: Well, one of your favorite words is bibliomancy, and in fact this will be an ideal text for that. We can just pick it up, open it at any page, any line, any paragraph, and it may be useful to you. It came out of us spontaneously.

R: Its almost as if its a book written for bibliomancy. Most books are not written for bibliomancy. Its against the grain.

G: Right.

R: But this one, you just pick it up, you open it, you look, you see what its saying you feel the response in you. Then you feel the response in whoever is responding in the text. Now youve got three responses happening. You can start to tune your own ability to let go into that response.