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.
Bozebits
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.
Bozebits
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
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.
Bozebits
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.
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
“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.”
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!