The Eight Chambers into My Mind & Heart Written by Michael A Gomez April 2026

1. The Church Moment — Presence vs. Carrying Over

when I was at church earlier, caught up in the worship — the singing of the worship songs together with everyone — it was a beautiful moment. It really was. The songs, the words… the words and the songs were the most moving.

I could easily say, “Well, I carried that over to what I’m experiencing now,” when I got in the car and came here, and first picked up Samara’s food, actually. But I did some things there that could break it — break that high that you’re on when you’re in the church, or in the temple, or in the Presence.

But maybe the difference, too, is walking in the Presence as you go from moment to moment, living in the moment. I don’t think it was the church experience that carried over here. I think it’s how I carry myself in my walk with mindfulness and awareness. But don’t be too proud of yourself, because that could cause impure practice.

So right now, I’m experiencing a beautiful moment, like I was at church earlier — but they’re separate moments. One didn’t carry into the other. Just be here now. And when it’s one hour from now, where will I be? Picking up my wife, etc. Be out there somewhere. Continue the walk. That’s a new moment. It’s not here yet.

Don’t be attached to this moment, which could cause suffering.

Oh, it’s so beautiful — the visuals on the screen, the music — caught up in a rapture. Let the rapture go, because an hour from now there will be another rapture all around, all around me. But this must be let go, because an hour from now I’ll be somewhere else.

2. The Rising and Falling of Images — Moment as Teacher

It’s true that I didn’t get lost in any of the things prior to what I’m doing in the present moment. When I was in those moments, I was enjoying them, as I shared a little bit with you at times. But the moment is my teacher — each moment that comes is my teacher — and that’s without trying to be rigid or possessed by it, but learning to move and flow freely in the moment, being aware and having that awareness in each moment along the way.

Images did come to me, as you know, from the past — images of whether it’s Natalie or some kind of attractive celebrity of some type — but I just let it rise and fall. I didn’t meet it with agreement and go through that door, allowing those feelings and emotions to take me through. I just let it rise and let it fall.

It’s a continuous practice, actually. Something will always rise, and that’s the seriousness of the beginner’s mind — to continue to walk in that, and to have the awareness in that sense from moment to moment. Return to the breathing when moments are a little bit too much and there seems to be a charge of some sort within. Return to the breathing, and always stay in that beginner’s mind.

These are the things — the three things I went over with you yesterday — that are most important in my daily practice. As more things are revealed to me in my walk, those will become other focuses in my walk, as each thing comes along as my teaching moment from within myself to myself.

3. The Definition of Beginner’s Mind

And yet, even though I sit and look at these differences, I recognize that letting go and not being attached to even this is truly the beginner’s mind — the mind that does not attach itself to any feeling, emotion, idea, or image, whether it’s good or bad, positive or negative, because attachment to any of them ends in suffering.

4. The Gratitude / Subconscious Residue Piece

I’m living in gratitude — that’s the state of consciousness and awareness that I’m living in. And in moments where the image comes to mind, I just let it pass. I don’t try to conjure up how it felt in the past when I did it. I don’t think of the suffering, but I do think — somehow, still, even subconsciously — that that’s there for me to that degree.

Because something like that, when it’s done for so, so many years — let’s say a habit like that, a pattern like that — it’s like it’s burned into you to some degree, to where subconsciously it’s going to kind of be there, even as you walk in gratitude. That’s what I’m finding.

I don’t know if it’ll ever totally disappear at that subconscious level. And if it’s there, it’s going to be in the memory to some degree, okay. But I just let the memory of that rise and fall. I have to be focused on my breathing and stick with beginner’s mind, and practice awareness continuously. To dwell on the suffering and the way I would feel about it — I’m not sure if that serves as well as living in gratitude.

But I think the memory that is there, and the subconscious level of it, can serve me for the better in some ways. Still, I think living in gratitude and moving forward, and living in each moment with awareness — that’s the path I’ve been taught. And that path… there’s wisdom in that path. It’s brought me to the cessation of suffering, so that’s where the gratitude is. And they’re not memories that haunt me, because, as I said, I don’t dwell in them.

5. The Dalai Lama Ceremony — Compassion & Abundance

Watching one of the lifelong ceremonies, feeling the kinship during the time of the many offerings being given to the Dalai Lama, where the beauty of the inner life is expressed in gratitude — and that gratitude is born from a heart of compassion, and that heart of compassion is born out of the cessation of suffering.

And in that cessation of suffering is a life of gratitude — one that can look back with inner peace, one that could, in this moment, just be, knowing that there is no inner striving. And when there is, that’s ego, that’s I, that’s me, that’s mine.

Within this peace inside is a found wisdom that can only be attained when we delve deeper underneath the layers within ourselves and get to the real root of the matter.

All these offerings being given, as I’m watching the blessings given out — a heart of gratitude, but no expectancy of return — coming from the deep well of a place within that gives out of lack or abundance, not being dependent upon vast riches. The riches that are found within go beyond the riches of material possessions. To give out of nothing is the most sacred giving. To give out of nothing is true abundance.

6. The Trinity — Breath, Beginner’s Mind, Awareness

Yes, I think there is a wisdom in using the screen at the right time, and a discernment in how that plays out and what I act on. Again, not to be rigid or strictly disciplinarian toward myself, but to live with the beginner’s mind, to return to the breath, and to live in a practiced, continual awareness. That really is the trinity for me — those three things I just mentioned.

And as I walk along, there will surely be other teachers that come. These moments themselves are the teachers that arrive, and I will learn a fourth part, and a fifth part, etc. That’s the way I want this walk to unfold. I think it’s the healthiest way, rather than imposing a list I haven’t even reached yet. The right way to use the screen will be my teacher in the moment as it occurs.

Whatever happens down the road, may I meet it with clarity. Using the screen isn’t wrong, but in certain situations it’s probably safe to say there’s a right time — and a time where maybe you put it away.

Nature fully alive… experiencing the beauty, the spell, the presence of nature in its glory. And when you leave that place, don’t take it with you, because all that beauty and glory is within you and everywhere. It is coming from within you — your whole perception of everything is coming from within you, between the sun and a beautiful body of water that surrounds you.

7. The Missed Weather Moment — Integration Into Daily Life

I sat for a little bit, thinking about your question — what do I think it is: the total hours, or the unconscious pickups? But I thought about it, and is this reason actually connected to either of those two? And this is it.

I’ll use an example. Yesterday was actually a beautiful day — beautiful weather — and the time that I had at home was well spent, there’s no question about that. But I did miss an opportunity as a person who loves being outside, being outside in nature when it’s beautiful weather. I think I might have maybe missed a window of opportunity with the 80° weather.

But even that idea — I don’t want to stay attached to it, as if it causes disappointment that I didn’t do it. That moment is gone. It rises, it falls. I’m here, I’m now, I’m in this moment. And maybe, moving forward, I could be more aware of such circumstances — that hey, it’s beautiful outside, let me go enjoy some of that awesome, feel‑good weather out there and be with nature.

8. The Outward / Inward Solution Revelation

I was looking for an outward solution when there was only an inward solution.

From: Alchemyth undergr0und 2032

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