Embrace of the Unknown

Let the embrace of the Unknown surround you and take you where roots grow eternally. You have nothing to fear. It's a place of calm and comfort. If it weren't for these roots the tree in the Upworld wouldn't guarantee the life that you knew above.

Don't worry, only because it's mysterious doesn't mean that has to be bad, quite the contrary. The birds chirp and sing, and the water flows and explodes into droplets which bring life along the riverbanks and the lakes that are shining with the green of plants, leaves and flowers. The latter sprinkled with colours in the valleys and the mountains, waving to the gentle breeze.

This subtle wind encircles you and your mind and lifts you from the problems that kept you up at night when you belonged to that other world. Luckily here there are not these sorts of problems.

You won't be a slave to distractions, terror, anxiety and all of those other menaces that the human soul despises. There's no room for them in this sacred venue.

You won't have to worry either about the silent footprint you leave in the White Valley, where the snow is soft and not cold and lets lavenders exude their fresh, delicate and lingering scent.

The same that now is travelling up in your nostrils, which is purifying you from the inside. It's going to find everything it does not work in your body and it will fill your lungs with wellness and strength. A scent that lures the purified souls out of their entangled minds to unravel serenity and clarity. It is the scent of awakening.

Don't fret. You can take all the time you want to complete this journey. There is no pressure in here for you to struggle with. Everyone has his own time to ascend and be freed.

Don't fear the outcome either. If you are in this exact location it means that you have already faced the most difficult task: letting go of your empty human vessel.

So stop thinking about it and welcome your new form. This is going to be your forever home, aren't you happy? You don't have to waste your time looking for something to comfort you anymore. It is going to be at your disposal every time you need it, from now on.

But now hurry, the battle of Tanha is awaiting you. Who's Tanha? And why do you have to battle? Well, it's not the first time that somebody does not what is expecting him in this new dimension. Tanha is the name that here is given to desire, longing, greed or thirst, will it be mental or physical.

You have to choose your own: exist as your own now, exist as a manifestation of your carnal desires, or stop to exist at all. So, who's going to win tonight, the craving for sensual treasure or the craving for existence? Or is it going to be the craving for non-existence?

If you understood how things work here, you already know the answer. You are going to confront all three of these opponents in the three rooms where they dwell.

As soon as you see a door open, enter the room and fight. If you survive you exit the door, come back into the hall and enter the room in which the door opens, and so forth and so on. But be careful, cause if you lose at the first attempt, nothing that you know is going to be as you feel it now.

Your fate is in your hands. Just remember that the three forces, you, me and everything else is going to fade into nothingness, cause nothingness your true home is.

Inspired by Pulse of Silence and their album Embrace of the Unknown, featured on In The Woods channel on YouTube. Let it embrace you too.