"Once there was a way, to get back homeward.

Once there was a way, to get back home."

Golden Slumbers
Lennon/McCartney

"It" isn't a "Thing." Doesn't come in a "Box or a Package."
It's not the "stuff" of physical existence.
Nor is it an "Idea." Which is the "Stuff of the Mind."

Not about the Intellect, not about Language; it befuddles attempts to
"Think our way in," or to "Describe our way there."

Put aside the Body and physical existence.
Put aside the Mind.
Put aside Language, Thinking, Doing.

More than anything, the spirit doesn't respond to the ego's endless attempts to dress things in words, robes or accoutrements.
Or to make things seem important.
No word, (large or small) does anything but obscure the issue.
Insight is more (and less) than words.
More (and less) than things. More (and less) than intellect.

Spirit is something/no-thing that mind cannot easily comprehend.
Spirit is not of the world, nor of existence. It simply isn't. It is indeed -- non existent.
Yet we know of it; and thus often attempt to describe it.

But the use of words to describe a "something" that doesn't strictly exist,
is confounding. Hence Lao Tsu's admonition: "That which can be named, is not the Tao."
Yet the mind is ceaselessly involved in feverishly assigning names to everything,
every emotion, every taste, every sensation, every conceivable state of matter
and energy -- all in the never ending attempt to live in a world which is
secured from the unknown.

Still, there, beyond the dictionary, the lexicon, the thesaurus -- is the silence --
the Glimmer of Insight.

So how does Insight work?

There are moments, where/when the mind is quiet, offline; and the spirit remains -- watching/listening to the silence; and a tiny "awareness" makes itself felt.
Not instantly, not blindingly (not all the time...) the new momentary glimmer of awareness is a connection, a sense of broader vision -- in that one can see/sense dimly but clearly "the way things are."

It's a paradox, that to learn more, we have to know less.
One "receives (rather than obtains) an intimation" of truth, a "glimmer" of insight...
More like an invisible opening into the infinite. To be "available" for that moment,
one must cease doing, thinking and being all the things which are barriers to insight.
Schedules, structures, programs...

Stop talking... and Perceive.
                                      Stop seeking... and Find.
                                                                              Stop searching... and Discover.