In summary, that’s what the Oh Method is all about. It’s wonder. At first, I used the "Oh!" exclamation to stop and observe, to create a pause between the gap that existed within me—the gap between what I expected and reality. It was a trick, a tool, a virtual friend. A wise thought, a traveling companion, that I suddenly encountered like a surprise. It allowed me to recognize this gap as a compass tracing a large circle from its center. I was the center, and the situation was the vast, enormous circle.
I learned to recenter myself, to return to that invisible point just piercing the paper and learned to come back to that essential point, no more and no less than a tiny hole in the paper, almost invisible, even air, without substance, fluid, simple, beautiful, invisible but present. From that space, it was possible and feasible to shape a new gap, but accessible, small, tiny, almost smiling. I was there, without expectations, at least ready to face the circumference, the perimeter of my void.
The insurmountable barrier of the initial gap had transformed into a point, a line, a circumference that I could touch, feel, and experience. The impenetrable barrier of the initial gap had diminished to return to the tangible and move out of thought, out of the mind, and back into myself, to what I could see, feel, taste, and perceive immediately. What a release, what beauty, what freedom, what clarity.
August 8th, 2024
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