The search for truth is more likely an attempt to escape from it. That is, we look, in our searching, for something better than what is now, and that “looking” is driven by a preconceived notion that there is more somewhere else that has yet to be attained. So we search, when all that can be known, all that can fulfill our existence, is the very thing we want to escape from. That is, “what is” now. Truth cannot be found where you search for it. It is found in the things you want to be different from now. Stay put; all that is is right here, not waiting to be discovered, instead, waiting for your embrace. Hug the day; your eyes will be opened!
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Fear of the unknown is ultimately fear of losing the known. That is, your mind braces at giving up the comfort of what it thinks it knows for something it cannot define. Agreements, with what you think you know, are neat little traps that hold you to comfort, not reality. You will never “know” what you don’t know until what you know is put aside. It’s a leap into mystery from which there is no return, but there is nothing like it in all the “known” and “unknown” universe! Take a breath, close your eyes, and let go! It’ll last forever!
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There is no learning process for awareness, just as there is no citing recipes for delicious dishes to a hungry child, expecting that doing so will satisfy their hunger. You must unlearn and be present to what is, without the narrative your “knowledge” wants it to compare to. Do you see? Your mind wants to add to, replace, layer on top of what’s already learned, and evolve into the latest and greatest version of awareness, expecting that, somehow, in the “education” itself, “milk and honey” flows and the “promised land” is reached.
Nothing you know, now or ever, will make you aware. You stand in “milk and honey.” Only your mind has you looking elsewhere for it! Look no more, you’re already here.
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Life is without motive, and living should be too. Ego has motives that thwart the very essence of living with something perceived that must be achieved. What you are, before any thought, is stillness and tranquility ungarbled by the difficulties of change and achievement, motivated by an insatiable ego that must have in order to be. Motives driven by desire require prior knowledge and thought, while life, in its purest form, is a mystery, unabated by anything you think it is or should be. Taking a step into living is not an act of faith; it’s an act of courage requiring stepping into the unknown and the unknowable. Think about it all you want, and you still don’t know.
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Being aware is full engagement with “what is” in the moment. That is, all in, with no movement of thought akin to walking along a mountain stream and encountering a bear a few yards away walking toward you. Before a single thought arises, you are fully present and engaged; every sense heightened, your mind crystal clear because it has yet to start a disconnecting conversation. Mind without thought is the only clarity you can experience, and what comes after is either a stream of thought clouding things up or awareness that has no connection to anything, learned, believed, imagined, or experienced. Be “all in,” but don’t think about what being “all in” is; that will only take you out.
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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.
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What you believe is right inherently carries the seed of wrong, making any “right” equally wrong. “I am right, and you are wrong” is the way of the ego and the form of all judgment. What you believe is not what you know, and it is ever so little you or anyone can “know.” Let go of what you believe, but even more so, let go of your reasons for having them, as well. Besides, being wrong about everything makes for a quiet, blissful life that never needs an offensive or defensive position to distract you from joy, peace, and wonder. Life is total wonder, but not if you are “wondering” what to believe or not believe.
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Awareness is only experienced when the repetitive nature of your mind is stopped. In other words, you cannot see the real when your mind is telling you what to see because your mind can only know the definition of the seen that was learned and now repeated over and over and over. It hears the words but does not see. Newness and clarity have no place in your mind, and awareness will elude you as long as you give it thought. You are, or you are not aware. You, trying to be so, only lubricates the repetitive nature of an already repetitive mind. BE-ing happens in the blink of an eye, and awareness is that close to you. “Be still,” and blink.
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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
“Your reality” has everything to do with what you think, but “true reality” has nothing to do with what you think. Thinking is your bias, and that is all. It is neither true nor untrue; it is just bias formed over the life you have experienced. Stepping away from bias (what you think) is difficult, if not impossible, but it is the only way to experience true reality, and it is the only way to appreciate the vast mystery you are surrounded by.
It is not incumbent upon you or anyone else to know or answer life’s mysteries. Life is simply yours to live without reason or why, and the fewer reasons and whys you have, the more abundant it is. That is, “reality” is as close as losing “your reality.”