Awareness is not an evolutionary thing, nor is it a becoming over many iterations or educational processes. It is not found in self-seeking intentions, achievements, or effort. Awareness is just present, and the mind that pursues it will always overlook it by looking everywhere it (the present) isn’t. Your mind, all minds, for that matter, are in a state of perpetual movement, and until the movement of all thoughts ceases, you will only be aware of what you think, and no mind can “think” with the simplicity of creative silence. YOU are the Creator, but not because of anything your mind is moving toward. Awareness, quietly, “knows.” Be still; YOU “know” too.
Bozebits
Discontent arises when you attempt to replace what is with something you make up that isn’t. Do you see? Trying to replace “what is” with something else to soothe your discontent is running from the very essence of life. That is, you live what is, but only imagine what isn’t. One is real and the other unreal, and you will never know fullness until you stop trying to replace what is with something else that isn’t. What it boils down to is that life lived as a “supposed to be” will always be a miserable life because “what is” doesn’t listen to anything you think it should be. It just is, and so should you! Running from what makes you unhappy is not going to take you to happy. If you can’t find it here, now, you won’t find it anywhere else.
There are no replacements for the present. Take what you get, as running to nowhere can be exhausting.
Bozebits
The search you embark on takes time, e.g., “in time I will get to the thing I seek,” but no one ever does because time does not exist. It is the great deception of the ego to lure you into getting something, you must pay the price of time for. We even create mythologies to extend the “time” we have to figure it out. Do you see? Time cannot be a cause of change. The present is the only place where anything can happen. In other words, everything happens NOW, where time has no existence, and change has no future. YOU are infinite but only NOW! Live instead of looking; it’s just more fun!
Bozebits
The path you take is a path that has already been taken by countless others and is not traveled less or more than any other. That is, your search has an ending you believe is where you want to be, but “what YOU are” outside what you search for is endless, infinite, and eternal; literally unreachable! There’s nowhere you need or can go because all so-called paths are the same and can lead to only one place in all existence. That is to YOU.
You stare out into the expanse, and all you see completely encircles you, and in quiet knowing, all of it emanates from eyes that you will never see. YOU are the Creator of creation. Paths and searches can only take you away from what already is. YOU are always home!
Bozebits
Each day, this day greets you with arms open, the kiss of sunshine, nature, and all that burst forth in heavenly nuance, not because it has all of this life to give but because YOU are its Creator. The smile of all that is is your smile, your breath, your love. My smile and love in return are the only way I can share my gratitude with you for this, YOUR creation!
Bozebits
When you are truly engaged with life, you are not thinking about it; you’re living it. Or, make that, it is living you. Adding what you “think” is happening distorts the present because it is impossible to know “what is” (now) when it is infused with your remembrances, dreams, point of view, and conditioning. There is no formula for living that you learn over time and commit to memory for a future experience. You step into life uncloaked from what you think, and “what is” shows itself unfettered and pure as silence itself. Give life your emptiness, and it will fill you to the full.
Bozebits
Your search for whatever it is you seek is a coming from or a going to. Did you get that? Coming from is the past, and going to is the future. Neither exists. In other words, “what is” is all there is, and it requires nothing you seek in the imaginary to know its miracles. Life never passes you by; you do that, unwittingly, looking for it where it cannot be. Where YOU stand now is holy ground, not what you search for. Stand still and know the looker who looks. That’s seeing.
Bozebits
Silence has no words, associations, descriptions, or assumptions for the present moment you create. It is not the opposite of noise as most of us think of it. It is all things without definition, spring without winter, fall without summer, life billowing without meaning. Silence is where the miraculous precedes the mundane. It is everything and nothing, smiling at the ALL that has no explanation. It is YOU smiling with the created.
Bozebits
YOU know, but if you think you know, you no longer know. There is an innate intelligence within you that has nothing to do with mind or memory but is alone and silent and rests in a place inaccessible to your thoughts. What YOU are is always at peace, but burns with awareness only your aloneness can experience. Silence is not being free of the noise surrounding you. It is peace amidst it. You are most aware when you are most alone. However, you’ll never “know” if you think about it.
Bozebits
The act of searching implies that you have an idea of what it is you are searching for. “I am searching for enlightenment,” suggests that you have an idea of what it is, meaning you will recognize it when you happen upon it, and it will look like what you have already presupposed it to be. Do you see? This is not searching; it is accumulating confirmation for what you think you already know, and if you know what it is, you search for you won’t find anything else! Additionally, the thrill of finding (confirmation) will be short-lived, leading you back to another search for something to replace the last one.
Truth cannot be sought. It is dynamic and ever-transforming, and all you can do is be clear of mind and meaning and always ready for whatever shows up. You will never know, but you will be continuously surprised and amazed. It’s an exhilarating way to live!