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STEPS IN THE MIND

[Hear and answer]

A clear mind - Is there a clear mind?
Without haste
You must yearn after truth - Do I yearn after truth?
You must be good - Am I good?
You must love - Do I love?

All in freedom - Am I free?
Avoiding conceit - Do I avoid conceit
With a bit of zest - Is there any zest?

An eye opening on existence
A rocket travelling through the emptiness of existence
A firework in the dark
A spark in the night

A complexity balanced on a complexity
Complexity of body
Complexity of brain
Complexity of existence

Complexity of body
Scaffolding of bone
Strapping of muscle
Clothing of flesh
Covering of skin
Internal organs
Upward coursing of the nerves

Complexity of brain
Cerebral hemispheres
Cerebellum
Thalamus
Visual cortex
Auditory cortex
Association cortex
Cortical columns
Neurons and axons
Synapses

Brain content
Content and consciousness
Content with consciousness
Content plus consciousness
Content/consciousness

Complexity of existence
Space Now - Time Here
This place, this country, continent
Earth, solar system, galaxy, supergalaxy, universe
The infinitely large
Elements and structures of elements
Atoms, sub-atomic particles
The infinitely small

The golden gates of the far past

The silver gates of the far future

The golden gates of the far past
All history, all past time
Yesterday, last week, last year, last century
Millennia, a million years, a billion years
The earth's beginning
The solar system's beginning
The universe's beginning

The silver gates of the far future
Tomorrow, next week, next year, next century
A thousand years, ten thousand, a million
All future time

Space/time here/now
A point of view
A point of view among points of view
The itness of I - the itness of all I's
The I-ness of it, the I-ness of all its
The itness of I

Feeling
Eye-feel, ear-feel, touch-feel
Seeing through seeing
Hearing through hearing
Feeling through feeling

The hard mountains of the North
The grey seas of the East
The soft lands of the West
The warm lands of the South

Above - stars and galaxies
Below - atoms and subatoms
Between - a temporary turbulence