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The sky is vast, the galaxies are vast, the universe is vast. But these are all foreground within background of awareness. The background space is wider than any thought that arises within. Even if that thought is of God, the universe, a pipe, or a finger pointing to the moon.

Take this trick in the first chapter of the book 'Impro': The author asks you to point at a few objects and say what they "aren't". This halts the "naming" mechanism in the mind and makes the world look "fresher".

But also notice that when you point at a cup and say "book", "book" didn't come from anywhere you could control. Notice that thoughts are the same.

Sure you can trace down the origin of a thought (e.g. you were holding a book) but then you have to trace down the thought doing the tracing. Where did *that* come from?

It's like trying to clear muddy water by beating it with a stick. To TRULY track down anything to THE Origin means to track down something to the Beginning of Creation. It means to attempt to find God.

A spiritual path that walks backwards opens doors to more doors to more doors. It never ends. It's as futile as truly figuring out who you are, reversing entropy, or figuring out just why you said "book".

This can be tempting. That's because the doors in the direction of past are *unlocked* while the door to the (desired) future is often barred by the monster of Fear.

Fear is always THE single next door, even if it's a multi-tentacled monster that blocks many doors. (This fear analogy explains why opening this "One" door of dealing with fear leads to the "Many" doors of Freedom.)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1328968602784047109 …