Primordial Joy - The path of Thogal

Thogal visions

After following a path of letting go, learning the way of an open heart and an allowing mind, and acknowledging original heart, you come to a beginning, a threshold. The seed in your heart initiates

the ripening of your path through the visionary practice of radiance. It is as if you become a sphere

riding upon the essence, becoming less and less held by time, space, shape, and distance, more and more a unity beyond separation, a unity of all experience, all phenomena, that resolves in an instant, essence, essence, essence.

The visionary path of radiance is a path of return from the point of origin, just as a circle is drawn. In the movement of a line sweeping around and curving back to merge seamlessly with itself, completion is inherent in the path from the beginning. The whole process of reunion with origin is all around us reflected in the natural world, infinitely patiently teaching us to acknowledge our place within its embrace. Circles and the movement of return to origin are expressions of the cyclical nature of the radiance of the essence that weaves the entire world experience we find ourselves within. They are the basis for the path of radiance, and they shape all manifestation, from atoms and molecules and the orbits of subatomic particles, to planets and stars and the dance of their movements within the larger movements of the universe itself.

On this primordial path, you rest in original heart, settle your body and eyes in specific postures and

gazes and breathe in a specific way, to open a very subtle channel that leads from your heart to your eyes. Nourished by the soil of your heart that you have prepared through all the previous practices, the luminous seed in your heart opens and begins to grow upward toward your eyes, giving rise to the fluid ongoing experience called the four visions. The visions of radiance lead you to oneness through the guiding field of spontaneous presence, an actual relationship with the radiance of the essence. It is an experience of total joy. Settled in original heart, perceiving the seed of light and knowing in your heart that you are immersed in the direct perception of the holy ones, you enter the final path, a path of living light at the very edge of the essence, the point of origin, a sacred, joyous knowing.

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