June 21, 2025 • 13 mins
The Unconscious Gate: Episode Title - Whispers Beyond the Threshold 🤫🌌🚪✨
What if there's a hidden doorway within us, a gate to untold depths we rarely glimpse? 🤔 In this episode of The Unconscious Gate, we journey into the mysterious realms of the subconscious mind. 🧠🔮 We'll explore how our unacknowledged thoughts, forgotten memories, and latent desires silently shape our reality, influencing everything from our daily choices to our wildest dreams. 💭💫 Is this gate a barrier, a key, or both? 🔑🔐 Join us as we attempt to peer through the whispers and echoes of the unconscious. Tune in for a mind-bending journey! 🎧🚀
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(00:01):
What breeds beneath awareness? What lives in the pause between
thinking and being? Welcome to the formless guide.
I'm Guruji, and today we'll explore what lies behind the
curtain of knowing. This isn't about losing
(00:23):
consciousness in a physical sense.
It's about leaning into what most of us are conditioned to
overlook, the quiet rhythms beneath the surface, the subtle
spaces we rarely inhabit. In this journey, unconsciousness
isn't an absence, it's an intimacy with the often unseen
(00:48):
ground of being. Before we instinctively name,
react, or define, it's the vast ocean from which we, as
reflections of the divine, have sometimes forgotten our
boundless origins. Let's consider this much of our
(01:09):
lives are lived on autopilot. Reflexes, habits, stories we
don't remember writing yet they dictate our emotional responses
and repetitive actions. This is the unconscious athlete,
(01:30):
not a villain, but a vast, powerful current beneath our
immediate awareness. We don't need ancient
terminology to feel its effects.It's a sensation when you're
halfway through a conversation and you realize you weren't
(01:51):
truly present, lost in internal chatter, or when a familiar wave
of anxiety, anger, or sadness arises, seemingly from nowhere,
but you don't know why it's hereor how to step out of its grip.
(02:12):
This is the state where, as the wisdom traditions observe, hell
can manifest not as a place, butas an unconscious cycle of
emotional turmoil and self perpetuating patterns.
You might find yourself repeating the same mistakes,
(02:33):
trapped in a loop of seeking external validation, or
suffering from a persistent sense of dissatisfaction even
when circumstances seem ideal. This is the repetitive cycle
from which escape seems impossible, not because there's
(02:54):
a lock, but because the door is unseen.
In spiritual practice, we approach this not with judgment
but with the gentle lamp of awareness.
We illuminate rather than exile.This unconscious realm isn't a
problem to be solved, but a place to meet ourselves more
(03:16):
honestly, to observe the limiting mental constructs that
keep us bound to these cycles. The threshold is powerful.
These are moments where the usual structures of the mind
loosen, offering a glimpse beyond conditioned perception.
(03:39):
Think about it. The moment right before sleep,
when thoughts dissolve into sensation of the raw breath.
Before a breakthrough and clarity is about to dawn.
The profound silence after a loss, when words feel too heavy
(04:01):
and only presence remains. These are portals into
formlessness. They aren't emptiness.
They're the raw material of clarity, the spaciousness where
transformation truly begins. Unconscious patterns like old
(04:22):
phase, hidden attachments, ingrained beliefs, the subtle
identification with the ego don't need fixing through force
or struggle. They simply need witnessing.
In this deep space of observation, the grip of past
(04:42):
conditionings loosens. Transformation doesn't come by
force. It arises naturally, like a
flower opening when the soft light of awareness meets the
darkened room within. There is a kind of inner
listening that feels like descending, not returning, not
(05:03):
to the past, but to your original stillness.
It is through self observation, mindfulness, and self inquiry
that we begin to gently shed these layers of unknowing,
allowing us to consciously manage our human nature not from
(05:24):
effort, but from an awakened presence.
Let's practice this now. Allow this guidance to be simply
an invitation, not a command. Find a comfortable face, perhaps
seated, perhaps lying down. Let the body soften, not trying
(05:49):
to relax, but allowing any tension to gently release with
each out breath. Feel the breath not as a task or
a focal point, but as a quiet companion.
Always here, a gentle rhythm that knows exactly what to do.
(06:14):
Now imagine you're lowering intodeep Clearwater, not sinking,
but floating downwards. Effortlessly slow, safe, whole.
You are held. Thoughts may pass like light
(06:40):
flickering above the surface. Let them pass.
They are not you. They are simply ripples on the
surface of your awareness. Hear beneath the voice, beneath
the stories. There is no self to defend, no
(07:04):
need to become anything, no needto prove or to strive.
You are in the Source field. You are not asleep in the
spiritual sense. You are simply not holding on.
You are integrating with this speciousness, allowing feelings
(07:29):
of profound peace or even a subtle ecstasy and bliss to
arise from this unconditioned state.
Breathe here for a while. Rest in this annoying.
(08:33):
Unconsciousness isn't the absence of light, it's simply
what exists before the lamp of awareness is gently lit.
It's the raw canvas before the painting and the language of our
(08:54):
formless guide. This gait is sacred.
It reminds us that stillness is not stagnation, but a vibrant
aliveness stripped of urgency and a frantic hunger for
information. It is here so that we nurture
(09:17):
the conscious being, contemplating how we truly
think, feel and react to life from this deeper place.
As you return from this descent,bring nothing back but the
silence that understands. Bring the quiet knowing that
(09:39):
your character is a living, constantly shifting, changing
and growing experience moving from form to profound
formlessness. Within our Theravada, we would
now say you have now entered this stream, a stream enterer
(10:07):
that has now been able to see the steeds of suffering in an
unconscious manner and the instinctual desire of craving
and how it affects our mind, ourbody, in our reactions, in our
actions, in how we think and howwe feel.
(10:30):
And now we have put forth a pathof developing the practice of
cessation in this suffering. Now I'd like to draw upon
stories of where we can easily fall into states of
(10:51):
unconsciousness. Now consider the story from
Buddha's time of Kisa Ko Tami, amother consumed by grief for her
lost child. In her unconscious clinging, she
(11:12):
sought a mustard seed from a home untouched by death.
Only by visiting every home and realizing that none was spared
from loss did she begin to awaken from her personal hell of
attachment. Seeing the universal truth of
(11:32):
impermanence, her suffering borne of her unconscious
clinging was met with insight leading her towards freedom.
Another one can be Shiva, often called Adiyogi, the first
(11:55):
practitioner of yoga. He embodies a state of profound
meditation where he absorbed theformless reality beyond creation
and destruction. His strength in his Agna chakra,
his power isn't in what he builds, but in his absolute
(12:19):
awareness that can dissolve all illusion, all unconscious
identification. He sits in the ultimate
threshold state, demonstrating that awareness itself is the
greatest force for transcending limitation and entering the
(12:40):
unconditioned. Use these stories as guides for
understanding the states of possibility available to you
through consistent, diligent mindfulness, mindful practices
that increase awareness. This we speak a lot upon in the
(13:04):
formless guide. I look forward to growing in our
great expansion of consciousness.
This is your formless guide signing off.
What breeds beneath awareness? What lives in the pause between
thinking and being? Welcome to the formless guide.
I'm Guruji, and today we'll explore what lies behind the
curtain of knowing. This isn't about losing
(00:23):
consciousness in a physical sense.
It's about leaning into what most of us are conditioned to
overlook, the quiet rhythms beneath the surface, the subtle
spaces we rarely inhabit. In this journey, unconsciousness
isn't an absence, it's an intimacy with the often unseen
(00:48):
ground of being. Before we instinctively name,
react, or define, it's the vast ocean from which we, as
reflections of the divine, have sometimes forgotten our
boundless origins. Let's consider this much of our
(01:09):
lives are lived on autopilot. Reflexes, habits, stories we
don't remember writing yet they dictate our emotional responses
and repetitive actions. This is the unconscious athlete,
(01:30):
not a villain, but a vast, powerful current beneath our
immediate awareness. We don't need ancient
terminology to feel its effects.It's a sensation when you're
halfway through a conversation and you realize you weren't
(01:51):
truly present, lost in internal chatter, or when a familiar wave
of anxiety, anger, or sadness arises, seemingly from nowhere,
but you don't know why it's hereor how to step out of its grip.
(02:12):
This is the state where, as the wisdom traditions observe, hell
can manifest not as a place, butas an unconscious cycle of
emotional turmoil and self perpetuating patterns.
You might find yourself repeating the same mistakes,
(02:33):
trapped in a loop of seeking external validation, or
suffering from a persistent sense of dissatisfaction even
when circumstances seem ideal. This is the repetitive cycle
from which escape seems impossible, not because there's
(02:54):
a lock, but because the door is unseen.
In spiritual practice, we approach this not with judgment
but with the gentle lamp of awareness.
We illuminate rather than exile.This unconscious realm isn't a
problem to be solved, but a place to meet ourselves more
(03:16):
honestly, to observe the limiting mental constructs that
keep us bound to these cycles. The threshold is powerful.
These are moments where the usual structures of the mind
loosen, offering a glimpse beyond conditioned perception.
(03:39):
Think about it. The moment right before sleep,
when thoughts dissolve into sensation of the raw breath.
Before a breakthrough and clarity is about to dawn.
The profound silence after a loss, when words feel too heavy
(04:01):
and only presence remains. These are portals into
formlessness. They aren't emptiness.
They're the raw material of clarity, the spaciousness where
transformation truly begins. Unconscious patterns like old
(04:22):
phase, hidden attachments, ingrained beliefs, the subtle
identification with the ego don't need fixing through force
or struggle. They simply need witnessing.
In this deep space of observation, the grip of past
(04:42):
conditionings loosens. Transformation doesn't come by
force. It arises naturally, like a
flower opening when the soft light of awareness meets the
darkened room within. There is a kind of inner
listening that feels like descending, not returning, not
(05:03):
to the past, but to your original stillness.
It is through self observation, mindfulness, and self inquiry
that we begin to gently shed these layers of unknowing,
allowing us to consciously manage our human nature not from
(05:24):
effort, but from an awakened presence.
Let's practice this now. Allow this guidance to be simply
an invitation, not a command. Find a comfortable face, perhaps
seated, perhaps lying down. Let the body soften, not trying
(05:49):
to relax, but allowing any tension to gently release with
each out breath. Feel the breath not as a task or
a focal point, but as a quiet companion.
Always here, a gentle rhythm that knows exactly what to do.
(06:14):
Now imagine you're lowering intodeep Clearwater, not sinking,
but floating downwards. Effortlessly slow, safe, whole.
You are held. Thoughts may pass like light
(06:40):
flickering above the surface. Let them pass.
They are not you. They are simply ripples on the
surface of your awareness. Hear beneath the voice, beneath
the stories. There is no self to defend, no
(07:04):
need to become anything, no needto prove or to strive.
You are in the Source field. You are not asleep in the
spiritual sense. You are simply not holding on.
You are integrating with this speciousness, allowing feelings
(07:29):
of profound peace or even a subtle ecstasy and bliss to
arise from this unconditioned state.
Breathe here for a while. Rest in this annoying.
(08:33):
Unconsciousness isn't the absence of light, it's simply
what exists before the lamp of awareness is gently lit.
It's the raw canvas before the painting and the language of our
(08:54):
formless guide. This gait is sacred.
It reminds us that stillness is not stagnation, but a vibrant
aliveness stripped of urgency and a frantic hunger for
information. It is here so that we nurture
(09:17):
the conscious being, contemplating how we truly
think, feel and react to life from this deeper place.
As you return from this descent,bring nothing back but the
silence that understands. Bring the quiet knowing that
(09:39):
your character is a living, constantly shifting, changing
and growing experience moving from form to profound
formlessness. Within our Theravada, we would
now say you have now entered this stream, a stream enterer
(10:07):
that has now been able to see the steeds of suffering in an
unconscious manner and the instinctual desire of craving
and how it affects our mind, ourbody, in our reactions, in our
actions, in how we think and howwe feel.
(10:30):
And now we have put forth a pathof developing the practice of
cessation in this suffering. Now I'd like to draw upon
stories of where we can easily fall into states of
(10:51):
unconsciousness. Now consider the story from
Buddha's time of Kisa Ko Tami, amother consumed by grief for her
lost child. In her unconscious clinging, she
(11:12):
sought a mustard seed from a home untouched by death.
Only by visiting every home and realizing that none was spared
from loss did she begin to awaken from her personal hell of
attachment. Seeing the universal truth of
(11:32):
impermanence, her suffering borne of her unconscious
clinging was met with insight leading her towards freedom.
Another one can be Shiva, often called Adiyogi, the first
(11:55):
practitioner of yoga. He embodies a state of profound
meditation where he absorbed theformless reality beyond creation
and destruction. His strength in his Agna chakra,
his power isn't in what he builds, but in his absolute
(12:19):
awareness that can dissolve all illusion, all unconscious
identification. He sits in the ultimate
threshold state, demonstrating that awareness itself is the
greatest force for transcending limitation and entering the
(12:40):
unconditioned. Use these stories as guides for
understanding the states of possibility available to you
through consistent, diligent mindfulness, mindful practices
that increase awareness. This we speak a lot upon in the
(13:04):
formless guide. I look forward to growing in our
great expansion of consciousness.
This is your formless guide signing off.
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