Flame of Awareness

I thought the passage below wise council, apropos two encroaching eclipses bathed in the nurturing womb of Cancer, reminding us that our clinging to the past prevents our awakening to spiritual awareness in the present. Uranus, that aspect in each of us that demands radical freedom from preconceived notions  from our past informing our present, stationed Rx yesterday insuring that something unexpected is about to take flight within each of us. When we on Earth experience an eclipse the Sun and Moon are close to the  lunar nodes, and I cannot think of a better evocation of the Leo-Aquarius nodal axis than,“the flame of awareness.”

“Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy. They are repetitive, producing mechanical activities which are a necessary part of existence. But they are only part, and thought and feeling cannot possibly enter into the immensity of life. Quite a different approach is necessary, not the path of habit, association and the known; there must be freedom from these. Meditation is the emptying of the mind of the known. It cannot be done by thought or by the hidden prompting of thought, nor by desire in the form of prayer, nor through the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes, and vanities. All these have to come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness.” *

*J.Krishnamurti