Energetics and the Mystery of Shared Presence
La energética y el misterio de la presencia compartida
A reflection on how energetic experience intensifies through practice and shared gathering, and how even bliss must be held without preference.
Energetics and the Mystery of Shared Presence
A reflection on how energetic experience intensifies through practice and shared gathering, and how even bliss must be held without preference.
The thing that happened for me is that I discovered energetics were real when I was quite young, with my teacher. I always felt they were real. For some people, there is a very strong, black-and-white quality to it. For someone like me, there was only a little at first. But then I started to realize: it is all of us. All of this is energetics.
Amplification through practice
Energetics can get amplified, and the more we do this work, the more they intensify. It becomes a kind of ocean of energetics that starts affecting everything around. You are affecting me, I am affecting you. There is this whole movement of mutual influence happening all the time.
When we come together in a group like this, even though there is physical distance, there is a place where physical distance does not exist, because separation itself does not exist. The deeper reality is that there is no distance. The energetics are very real, and they happen in ways that are truly mysterious. It is often not talked about much, and I am not entirely sure why. It is deeply mysterious, and it is very hard to understand or know anything definitive about it. But it happens, and it is happening all the time. When we gather together for a session like this, it is like a soup that starts to spread. But it is all of us. We are all, at the same time, one.
Bliss, turmoil, and what presence stirs up
It happens in retreats. It happens also spontaneously. That is what can feel very blissful, if we are open to it. For me, it is very ecstatic, very blissful. But I remember in the past, when I was in the presence of my teacher, there would also be a lot of turmoil, because it was bringing things up. The energetic field getting activated in me, in that presence, was my own energetic. It would start to move things I was not comfortable with. That is how it was for me then.
But now, when we sit together on a Wednesday, which is pretty much the only time I meditate (though I have been meditating a little more lately because I am under a lot of pressure with work), it is very blissful. It is like bliss in the flesh. And at the same time, when that is not there, it is completely fine. I do not care. I really understand that quality of no preference. At that level of experience, it becomes very relevant whether there is that kind of palpable, embodied bliss or not.
The trap of fascination
The energetics can get really tricky, because they could become a huge distraction. But again: have fun with it.