The Stopping Mind

...there is nothing but black. There is nothing but silence. I can feel my body. I am lying in a dark space. I can feel my body lying here. I am awake. I feel my breathing, in and out, quiet and regular. I can feel my breathing. I move my body. I slowly roll over and look up. I see nothing. There is nothing. There is no light. There is no darkness. There is no volume. There is no distance. There is no sound. There is no silence. There is the sensation of space, but there is no image. There is the sensation of my body with ist extension and weight pressing down. I can feel my body pressing down. And there is this silent voice ringing in the darkness. A voice ringing in the blackness. I bring my hand up to my face. I move my hand but there is nothing. Nothing in the blackness. My body does not move. I lie completely still. I don`t move. I don`t move my body, not even to swallow. Slowly I becaome aware of the loss of sensation in my limbs. The loss of sensation of my body. I don`t know how long I have been lying like this, I don`t know how long I`ve been lying there. Lying in the silence. I imagine the black space. I imagine the silence. The darkness of no image. The silence of no sound. I imagine my body. I imagine my body in this dark space. The space is like a large black cloud of soft cotton, silent and weightless. A soft black mass slowly pressing in around my body. I can feel it slowly pressing in around my body. Pressing in around me.Everything is closing down. Closing down around my body. It`s closing down around me until only a small opening reamains. A small opening around my face. Only a small opening around my face remains. Outside of this - the oblivion of nothing. The oblivion of nothing. Outside of this there is only darkness. There is only blackness. There is nothing. I am like a body underwater breathing through a small opening. Finallly, I let that go. I let it go. I feel myself submerge. Submerging into blackness. Letting go. Sinking down into the black mass. Submerging into the void. The senseless and weightless void. The great comfort of the senseless and weightless void, where...

Bill Viola

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