Perhaps no one will follow these instructions or even have an interest in doing so. It is my obligation, nonetheless, to record this information for the future.
The essence of inner work is to establish an attention space above, but connected to, the physical world that is ruled by time, distance and separation. In this attention space, the facts of the physical world are fluid. They can be touched and caressed in this space without the limits of time and distance. You and they are moved together by universal forces unimpeded by separation. The facts of ‘what is’ can be induced to dance with you, sometimes to respond to your wishes.
I speak of making prayer space. This space is a wish-fulfilling jewel in which you lay your wish at the feet of the source of all attention and will. Its nature is intimacy. The active element of intimacy is love.
First, consciousness, then realization.
To be conscious is to hold many things in the attention space simultaneously…thoughts, feelings, sensations…which requires that you not be the thinker. Do you see that having thought is not the same as being the thinker?
To be realized is to cease to react to facts. You can then be trusted to engage with the forces that shape the inner worlds where things take form. If you react, you are expelled from the attention space.
Inner work is not forceful. It cannot be willed. It has no ambition. It has no personal emotion. It does not want. It lies in the world between.