Finding what you’re looking for is counter to what spiritual awareness is because there is no definable “what” to be found. “What” always carries with it mind-based qualities that characterize something that is still a complete surprise and ever a mystery, and seeking your idea of it is comparable to herding cats. It just can’t be done! That is, you can’t plan to get something or somewhere you can’t even define, and trying to do so detracts from the life you could be experiencing otherwise. Awareness always sneaks up on you when you least expect it, but always when you are busy living without expectations. The key to awareness is fully experiencing where you are and in “what” you find yourself in. That can only happen now.
In other words, what you seek is already present in “what” is. Search no more; you’re here!
Bozebits
Life, for most of us, is a formulation, a description based solely on conditioning and the ultimate acceptance that “this is how it is.” The range is extensive and varies from “I matter; I don’t matter, I’m good; I’m bad, etc.,” but it’s not which side of the range you see yourself or others on. It’s that you embrace a range of any scale at all! Do you see? As long as you hold to your description of the world and feed it with all the supporting “collective evidence” that you are right, you will always be bound to your judgments, and sadly, miss the beauty before you. In other words, you cannot rise above what you believe.
You can, however, cease to believe anything and come to know only the splendor that cannot be judged. Such “splendor” is everywhere and in everyone. Yes, even YOU!
Bozebits
The most significant limitation of your (human) experience is what you believe. It is the basis of all judgment, division, and the insanity that “what is,” which is the only “real,” can be outdone by a thought. The highest light is the one you do not and cannot know, but it always shines now in your experience, regardless of your belief that somewhere other than this moment, it is brighter. Simply, beliefs take you out of the light that kisses you each moment, and those kisses never cease, even when you “believe” otherwise.
Bozebits
You cannot separate everyday reality from your search to find another truth, a spiritual truth. It is the folly of all searches in that you believe there is something else separate from what is. Regardless of the “search pattern” you have set up to find truth and bring it back to your life, you won’t suddenly be aware because it is not lost! Do you see? You don’t “find” truth, nor can you “think” or express it once you “think” you have found it. You, simply, are it, and its presence is revealed when you cease mentalizing it. No expression is necessary. All that is, now, with YOU at its center, is truth. And, best of all, it’s real! Why not enjoy it?
Get inside yourself, but be quiet. There are a lot of surprises awaiting you.
Bozebits
Happiness, for most, looks more like an escape from the mundane routines and stresses of everyday life than an innate nature that bubbles up from within. Go here or there to destress, get this, own that, a great career, money, responsibility, great marriage, beautiful children, etc., are all the things we chase after, and when we “have” and the thrill of having is gone, happiness seems to have disappeared as well. Now, to escape to the next source of joy. “Getting” is the nemesis of happiness. Its very nature is based on the conceptual idea that something out there is a cause for a felicitous experience. Not only is joy not about “getting,” it is about releasing what you’ve already got, along with the striving to get next, and next and next. Getting is an endless, unfulfilling cycle.
YOU are happiness; YOU are joy all wrapped up in a neat little package that needs nothing to know it. So get “knowing” (YOU) by not “getting” anything to find IT!
Bozebits
What YOU are that precedes all thought is untouchable. That is, not touched by any concept, philosophy, religion, ideas, beliefs, fantasies, heritage, etc. What you think yourself to be is the progeny of your mind and the focal point of your identity, judgments, and points of view. Your image of reality, in other words, is not only touchable but likely deeply touched by the things listed above and many others, all of which contain the fuel of anger, contempt, and insanity. No search for awareness that takes you to or through more conceptual nonsense will ever lead you to the destination you seek. It takes shedding, not searching. Do you see?
Untouchable, YOU cares nothing for what you seek because nothing you find sticks to IT. Shed instead of search. YOU already are everything, but it’s likely buried beneath a whole lot of junk you picked up while searching. Just Sayin’.
Bozebits
Your thoughts run contrary to reality. While seemingly noble and with good intent, there is always an underlying motive your mind controls, and that is to blind you to the otherness it cannot comprehend and never will. It will adopt words, phrases, spiritual concepts, movements, and causes, wrap them in glitter and eloquence, only to seduce you and other minds doing the same thing.
The silence of nothingness is where reality takes form, and it has no voice that can speak words of beauty or ears to hear them. You will “know” when every concept you have mastered, every word, description, and identification your mind harbors is struck dumb, and in that silence, YOU are inseparable from the real. There is no “getting” IT. There is only being IT, and being IT, well, there are just no words!
Bozebits
The “path with heart” never forsakes another heart, regardless of the fury it encounters along the way. Love is written in the palm of every hand, but it sometimes takes another’s hand to notice. Is that “hand” yours?
Bozebits
Freedom is not what you think. The inalienable has no definition and is no possessor of the free. If you “think” you have a “right” to anything you believe qualifies as freedom, you are no longer free. You are a slave to your thoughts; we all are. However, you will always have “what is,” and that requires nothing from you but living it.
Bozebits
YOU, that is what YOU are, that is not human, are found in every encounter. The walk in nature, the tree you embrace, the flowers that fill your senses, sunny days, storms, moonlit nights, and the myriad brushes with everything imaginable or unimaginable. YOU are found in all of it, but your mind seeks the comfortable, the easy, and stimulating. Regardless, YOU are there, not as a witness to experience, but as the creator of it, and it just doesn’t matter what you encounter.
Remove anger, emotion, and judgment from your experience and let the purity of your creation, your love, be the focus of your gaze. Creators find peace in all they create and smile a lot, even when their mind is telling them not to.