Hi Asya - what an inspiring sharing, and clear illumination into the process of Enlightenment.

You said...

The best way to describe it would be drawing a parallel with the water, it doesn't have any specific shape, but it may depend on the container holding a specific shape or capacity. If you remove that container the water spills out and spreads everywhere. And so does the consciousness - it feels something like that, being spread everywhere, touching everything it reaches, but it cannot gather itself for any particular action. It feels like an absence of any spark or impulse.

I heard this wonderful little story a while back, that goes something like this...

A Zen master running a monastery is reaching the end of his life and looking amongst his students for who might replace him. He asks them, "What is Enlightenment?" Various of the monks offer intelligent answers, but all fail to satisfy the Zen Master. He's now wondering how to proceed.

At that moment the cook walks in, carrying a large bowl of soup. Following an intuitive spark, the Zen Master asks the cook, "What is Enlightenment?"

Upon which, the cook drops the bowl of soup on the floor, which smashes. And then walks out.

The cook became the next Zen Master!

I'd say you've broken a bowl of soup inside! You've broken a redundant, and contracted, container. And now, what I sense is, you expanding into presence.

There might well be a wondering of how to function from this place?

No worries though. That's where full authenticity of being naturally starts to arise. It's just that a new, more flexible container, needs to take shape within, so as to hold the soup more lightly!

Well wishes with that.
Great pictures by the way!

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