The entrance to oneness, which looks like a black hole, is so tiny that only nothing can pass through it and gently fall into oneness’s formlessness.
This Zen drawing is reminiscent of an uncompleted black hole in the Enlightenment of that which is One. When the strokes speedily meet, they form a circle and, thus, a hole, often referred to as a black hole. Yet, it is not necessarily centred or black. The hole is typically brimming with the same strokes of ever-changing colours, moving rapidly and chaotically outside the zen-like strokes. You cannot see them in this illustration. Nor can you see that soon, the light show is absorbed by a ring of shiny light emerging along the hole’s edge.
Then, a light brighter than anything bursts forth from the hole. It takes over everything and promptly extracts all thoughts, making up what you believe in being and seeing.
Hence, nobody can experience that nothing is smoothly pulled through a tiny hole, which, like any other appearance, ceases to exist when not witnessed. Thus, only that which needs no confirmation, namely that which is One, does not disappear.
It is not a process over time but one perpetual present, for there is no time in oneness. And since it is formless, thus endless, there never was or will be something else. So, since you have never been outside oneness except in fantasy, you return as nothing.
From Duality Hack #10.5 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
The Enlightenment of that which is One is like a powerful vacuum cleaner. It sucks not only all the dust but also the carpet and everything else that you can experience. Hence, nothing hides that which cannot be experienced, namely oneness. Of course, this is a metaphor. Oneness is formless, thus endless. So, there is nothing outside to hide it. Ergo, the Enlightenment of that which is One does not extract anything but the belief in more than one.
Since it does that immediately, there is nobody to detect that the inner edge of a Zen-like-looking circle turns into a ring of light, whirling so fast that it absorbs everything. Thus, nothing is left but one light with a hole too tiny for something to pass. But no worries. The light is so bright that you cannot see something confirming you as somebody.
Thus, as nothing, the light gently pushes you through the tiny hole. On the other side, neither light nor dark, your nothingness gracefully falls through a vast void into the formlessness of oneness.
Labelling turns off the Enlightenment of that which is One
Alexius describes the above as you would describe something in a world defined by time and space. However, oneness is timeless, so the above takes no time. Also, oneness is shapeless, so it has no entrance that looks like a Zen-like circle or anything else. In other words, there is no way out or in of oneness. Nevertheless, since we believe to be outside the formlessness of oneness in a world defined by time and space, we continue the description of the Enlightenment of that which is One in that context.
Even though the floating centre of the zen-like circle is often called a black hole, it seldom looks black. Instead, it may look like a horsehead (see below). The stroke surrounding the hole is not made by one but two strokes, drawn simultaneously from the top by nobody, quickly and smoothly. In the top image, the strokes still need to be met. Simultaneously, the changing lucid colours outside the stroke (you cannot see them in the illustration on the top) fill the circle’s hole.
But if you compare the strokes to familiar shapes, they do not meet. Actually, they disappear, so no hole is made. Ergo, your belief in being something definable is not extracted but enhanced, so your nothingness does not encounter a timeless journey with no distance into the formlessness of oneness.
To conclude, labelling prevented you from being in free fall, moving so fast that nothing passes the hole in a Zen-like-looking circle, no longer a hole but colourless light so bright that there is nothing to see, thus nothing to hide the formlessness of oneness. In short, since you insisted on being someone seeing something specific, you did not enter the Enlightenment of that which is One but experienced its glimpses with the inward-facing senses. See Duality Hack #11.1.
However, you do not see it because it is so blinding that you cease to exist as someone definitive. That is why nothing is sucked through the black hole into an endless void, where it keeps falling until absorbed by emptiness. Hence, since there does not seem to be anything outside of oneness, nothing appears to hide that there never was or will be anything other than that which is One.
In a black hole, there is no sense of being anything. Your nothingness is on a timeless journey in an endless void, neither light nor dark. However, there is a sense of a sudden end. Consciousness must go for nothing to happen or ever have happened as you never left oneness.
In other words, since nothing returns to oneness, nothing has been undone by the Enlightenment of that which is One but the belief in a world of something.
The Enlightenment of that which is One
But let us assume you do not compare the strokes or the light show preceding the Enlightenment of that which is One with something familiar. Then, the strokes meet to make a hole from where one light extracts the belief in being something so nothing enters a black hole. However, only something definable is explainable, so the description below is not factual but metaphorical based on Alexius’ distant memories of his nothingness in one perpetual present.
When you do not label the hastily drawn circle as something, you neither register its black hole nor the psychedelic light show outside it. Totally blown out, you may sense a white glowing ring pop out of nowhere, becoming one bright light everywhere. It is neither opaque nor transparent but so intense that it cannot be seen – nor can anything else. Thus, neither something nor nothing falls through a discontinued black hole into itself gently.
If that is what you want, you better forget what you just read so you do not use it to define the Enlightenment of that which is One, thus preventing it from undoing the belief in being someone. Even better, forget what and where you believe in being, hence welcoming the Enlightenment of that which is One.
Epilogue 1
The Enlightenment of that which is One is not for those who believe in coming from the heart, having direct experiences, or being full of compassion because states like that depend on the belief in being in a world with more than one, and there is no room for more than one in the Enlightenment of that which is One.
Epilogue 2
The black hole in the Enlightenment of that which is One is non-definitive, thus not necessarily black or as described above. For example, Alexius has had glimpses where the black hole looked like several triangular parts of an Ultrasonogram arranged around an indefinable centre. They were spinning so fast that soon, they looked like one. Simultaneously, a glittering round white stroke popped up inside the hole’s edge. Then, one lucid light, more powerful than thousands of atomic bombs, erupted out of the darkness and emptied everything.
Sometimes, ‘the black hole’ may look like a horsehead (see above) or an embryo (see Duality Hack #11.1). You cannot deduce a specific pattern, so do yourself a favour and forget about understanding the Enlightenment of that which is One.
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