The Narrow Road: Emptying for God's Presence

Very good. Very good. You see, because the road is narrow and both cannot fit on the same. And if you want to make a slight, very slight, very careful adjustment to that, you can say that I may be able to fit on that road or whatever remains of me now may be able to fit on that road if God is like the overwhelming one on that and I am just a tiny, tiny servant along with him. But broadly speaking, only one of us can fit on this. So whatever we do is to empty ourselves of what we take ourselves to be, not of what we are. Because if we knew and we didn't forget what we are, then the process of emptying would not be needed. To know who we really are is actually the same as being with God or being what we really are. But because we take ourselves to be this name, this identity, this one who has wants, has desires, has had birth, will have deaths—that is why that emptying is needed. Then if you're empty, then what happen is the mind that's full stop, you see, the mind that's full stop, isn't it finish? I'm gone only. So what do you want me to say? If I'm not there, what will happen to me? That is the extent of where the mind can reach us. But somewhere deeper than the mind, we know that in that emptying, we then seem to come in close contact with the holy light of God's presence within our heart. So it's like in the world I was dancing just here, here. I didn't have any idea what was here, you see. And then when I turned inwards and then emptied myself, then I was drawn to a deep place that we may call the heart. It is the spiritual heart, not the emotional one, not the physical one. And then just in the sunshine of that, in the dazzlingly dark luminosity of that, and what we took ourselves to be, the grasping one—that one starts to dissolve and we become full of this light. It is not a perceivable light, but it is an intuitively recognizable light. Have I lost you all?