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.
Bozebits
Beauty recognizes only beauty and nothing else. It knows nothing of your mind’s judgments that pick and choose what it labels such. Just because you have determined something distasteful does not make it “not” beautiful. It is said, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but it should also be noted that “any judgment in the beholder makes the eyes blind.” There is something in all of us that transcends the mind’s limited purview that is only recognizable when the mind disengages from its unique assessment of reality. You are real when you are quiet, non-judgmental, and when you are real, beauty’s narrowly focused beacon becomes life’s all-encompassing light. YOU are that light; let it shine!
Bozebits
Your “spiritual searching” sidelines reality and removes you from the only possible place where transformation can take place. That is right here, right now. Hoping for something other than “what is” delays any opportunity to experience what your silence already knows.
At any given moment, yes, even this moment, YOU are already far above any dream you have. Opening your mind to dreams is closing your mind to reality. YOU, present, is the only dream worth experiencing.
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Your thinking, doing, saying, intending, worshiping, politicking, loving, hating, fearing, and all the other things ending in “ing” are successors to a silent will that knows nothing, needs nothing, makes no judgments, and holds everything. Repress the bad and exploit the good, even though recognition of either is the heart of suffering. Stop it!
The predecessor of suffering exists before bad and good take form, and it is what YOU are that whispers to a conflicted mind, busy doing all its “ing’s.” Lose all definitions of yourself and everyone/everything else, and all that is left is the infinite, e.g., YOU, birthing the totality. Your mind is the door, but it blocks it with the noise of all its “doings.” Silence is the key to discovering what lies beyond it.
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The common denominator, and thus the only constant in all existence, is YOU, which is inseparable from infinity. That is, all form, divided by the infinite (nothing or everything), makes form impermanent and YOU forever (permanent). Do you see?
How silly it is to place any importance on anything that is not here or appears to be here but eventually isn’t. Money, houses, cars, ideas, governments, education, social status, religion, beliefs, dreams, thoughts, rights, wrongs, good, evil, etc., etc., etc., will never outlast YOU. The very essence from which all that is, is YOU, giving rise to form that inevitably falls away.
The struggle of humans to hang on to the “impermanent” lies at the heart of all suffering. Everything you embrace goes away except YOU, who “looks” and forms again and again, and again. Knowing YOU is the only thing worthy of your attention. Everything else? Love it, have fun with it (or not), and let it go.
Bozebits
The world and your possible options to experience it are so vast, bewildering, and inexplicable that it is utterly futile to spend any thought on how to go about living. Do you see? The fullest life is an exploration of what is, as is, without commentary, analysis, or reason. Especially, reason!
There is no hope whatsoever that you or anyone else will ever fathom the infinity surrounding you. All that’s left is to explore what you can and embrace with a smile what you can’t. It will leave you without any time to seek answers to unanswerable questions and full of starry-eyed wonder and awe. It’s an excellent way to go!
Bozebits
Awareness is found in the absence of what you seek. That is, it cannot be conceived of, mapped, or plotted and reached by gargantuan efforts and feats. You’re standing in it now. It appears when you give up on anything, you think it is.
Bozebits
Present moment living solves every problem you drag along with you from the past. Love, kindness, forgiveness, joy, happiness, all reside in a heart that beats at this moment, and the future’s great mystery is that it is impossible to get to. Did you get that? You’re already “there,” as in “here,” now. This moment is not a refreshingly new gift to you; you are a gift to it. GET HERE NOW!
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Mystery’s beauty is its code of silence. It is humans who ask why things are as they are, seek plausible explanations, and apply meaning to something that has no meaning. Do you see? Awareness is “not knowing,” but allowing the flow of mystery to keep you engaged with the moment, alert, and fearlessly committed to living “what is” as is. Only your silence can match its silence, but it is an indescribable thrill that never lets you go. Don’t ask why, how, when, or where. Mystery eludes even the most profound and elaborate responses.
Let the moment fill you in its way and without your inquiry, and “you” simply enjoy the thrill.
Bozebits
The aware act well, participate fully, and appear to know what they are doing, even though they know nothing. They are free from the burden of self-importance and self-confidence that marries them to good and evil, right and wrong, and myriad other thoughts and beliefs humans wrap themselves in.
You are not better because you are aware, even though it may look that way to others. Awareness comes without ratings and rules. You “know” that knowing nothing is the ultimate knowing. This, I “don’t” know.