The W/Hole: Portals to Spaciousness?

It's not day or night, it's space?

Now I have to admit that I'm not someone who meditates that often, I'm more of a contemplator than a meditator and I'll argue that if you can learn to contemplate in awe and wonder at the world around you that that is pretty close to meditating ... well in my book anyway.
The Portal?

I went to the cinema to see 'The Portal' about a week ago thinking that it was probably going to be just more new age crap, but I found the movie a contemplation and almost a meditation itself, by not telling you how to meditate, just showing you people who came from nightmarish backgrounds who told their story of why they find it important to find time to meditate and to look at the bigger picture.

Just after I had seen 'The Portal' I picked up the Summer 2018 edition of 'Mind Body Spirit' magazine that had a picture of a wave tube and the sun in the sky with the words 'Portals to Spaciousness: An Exclusive Interview with Eckhart Tolle'.
I have read 'The Power of Now' years ago and found it OK, but I'm not that much into Tolle, as I find that he is just stating the obvious and getting paid for it.
Although I guess most people couldn't see the obvious if it was punching them in the face ... ouch!

In the magazine article about ET, Alexander de Cadenet asks questions to Eckhart about his practice of posting pictures of the sky to his followers at www.eckharttolle.com and why.
And Alexander makes the comment that he wondered how many people would look at those shots of ET's if they didn't know that the photos were his.
There are much better shots than of ET's cloud shots on the net;-)
'UFO clouds' create spectacle in skies over Tasmania

I find that you can see and capture some pretty amazing cloud patterns if you just take the time to look up from time to time -
A Walk of Art and Synch in Redcliffe

Something Strange Happened to Me on THE WAY out of a Taoist Temple

A very badly drawn outline by me to
show you what I imagined I saw

Leap Into the Void?

“The Master of Zen says, ‘Jump into the foaming waves of the whirlpool below!,'” writes R. H. Blyth in his book, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics.

“The monk jumps, and finds himself on his feet, walking along the road that leads to his own home.”

Ironically, the lady pictured above from 'The Portal' broke her back leaping off a cliff into the water below.

The Hummingbird Effect/s?

Daniel Minnick

In the ET article in the 'Mind Body Spirit' magazine Alexander asks Eckhart if he was familiar with Yves Klein's 'The Void'.
ET said "no" and Alexander told ET that one night in the early 1950s Klien was lying on his back in the hills behind Nice in the south of France with a fellow artist called Arman and after the sun had set, the sky was becoming darker and darker and there was a point, a special moment between night and day, when it became a deep, luminous blue.

As he was lying there Klein said, "I must give people this experience of the sky", or what later called "The Void".
Inspired by this encounter, Klein developed a way of making monochrome paintings using blue pigment from the lapis lazuli stone.
When you look at the monochromes, there's this feeling of being completely absorbed into space Alexander told ET (pun intended on my part there:-). 

ET then says to Alexander, "That's wonderful."
So when you contemplate something like that, it's important to stay with it for a while, to use it almost as a meditation object and then it can take you to a point where the mind becomes still.
And if you are able to stay with that, what arises within you is spacious awareness.
In a mysterious and almost paradoxical way, you become aware that you are aware.
This is the essence of beauty.
It is the source of all creativity.
Any human being who has not at least had glimpses of that transcendent dimension has missed the purpose of human life altogether.
You could have created many things -
created a big enterprise, made a lot of money or achieved fame.
None of these things will fulfill you or satisfy you for long.
The source of true happiness is found in the dimension of self-transcendence.
The person that you are is your form-identity.
You can honour and appreciate your form-identity, but do not seek to find ultimate satisfaction or happiness through it, unless you want to live in continuous frustration.
Only by being in spacious awareness, which is your essence-identity, can you find lasting happiness and fulfillment.
The Creative Brain?

There's Always the Sky?