Focusing on the now is not the same as being present in the now. Narrowing focus is a mental (mind-based) activity that takes you out of the present and into thought. Being present contains no thinking at all. When you disengage your mind from activity, present moment awareness is clearest. If you must focus on anything, focus on not focusing! In other words, clear your mind and simply BE in the moment; you’ll never be more clear.
Bozebits
Firstly, in matters of the heart, never, ever, ever speak your mind. Your mind gets it wrong one hundred percent of the time. Secondly, all matters are matters of the heart. Shh…
Bozebits
There are no “nots” in the language of life. “Nots” are a product of your mind. That is, if you say life is “not” supposed to be this or that, you pit yourself against reality. If life does not run the full gamut you experience, you mock it, and to judge it in any way is you making stuff up, which again, is denial of “what is” in this moment. Embrace your “nots” and don’t get tied up in knots over it. The spectrum of beauty and life itself contains not only the “nots” but everything else as well.
Bozebits
Your mind, contrary to what you think, does not seek limitlessness. It seeks limitation, safety, and comfort. It loves to control and creates boundaries around things it cannot control. Your mind’s elemental starting point for all interaction is “I am right,” and “everything (everyone) else is wrong.” Switching off your mind puts you squarely in the place of present-moment experience where mystery and wonder are incomprehensible to anything your mind thinks is better. Go “mindless” today; If you aren’t thinking there are no limitations!
Bozebits
In spirituality, the beckon is to focus more narrowly, define more clearly, or, as it is now called, raise consciousness. However, the more detailed you become in your descriptions of life, the more wrapped up in your mind you become. In other words, attention to detail, in the spiritual sense, leads to loss of awareness. Quieting your mind removes your sense of reason from the picture of the life you uphold and thus clears your focus, letting more light show through. Under any lens, beauty is present, but if you are determined to sharpen your focus (reason), you will not see that much of it. Set your reason aside. Clarity doesn’t need it, and when it comes to awareness, neither do you!
Bozebits
Oneness is ubiquitous. That is, YOU are everything, and nowhere in all existence are YOU not found. Your mind (ego), however, separates you from everything but takes great pride in statements such as, “we are all one, etc.” Do you see? “You, separate from me, and I separate from you are one” is still separation. Being present is awareness without a definition of an “I,” seeking to merge with all. You cannot seek that which touches everything, and YOU are everything! That is, right up until you think you are everything. Oneness is not a thought; it just is. So let it be.
Bozebits
What you think, believe, or claim to know requires an ego to defend it. What YOU are outside of ego clings to nothing, which subdues an ego ready to fight. Know YOU; that is YOU, who has no description and is undefinable. YOU will not be found on a battlefield driven by egoic strategies but only on the pristine meadow of peace, solitude, and warm, gentle breezes. You’ll know it when you let go of what you know.
Bozebits
The voice you hear and pay attention to is your voice. That is the voice of ego ‘sorting things out” according to its rules and judgments. It is the most erroneous voice you know, and it creates the false narrative of what is. The voice you don’t hear never judges, complains, makes stuff up about what happens, or seeks to be right. It embraces life in quiet and thrills in each moment it participates in the grand mystery of human experience. It is the voice that never condemns another and shows only kindness to all “forms.” If you listen, you will hear it, but never if you are thinking. Shhh; mystery is afoot!
Bozebits
What you believe is the heart of all your suffering and, sadly, you cannot think or educate your way out of it. You can, however, unthink your way to freedom by not thinking at all. Let yourself lose control of all your mind has convinced you it has under control, and you will discover you never had any, regardless of what your mind convinced you of otherwise. Surprisingly, that’s when you will feel the most in control. It just doesn’t get any easier – but hard.
Bozebits
There is nowhere to go in life, no moving forward, backward, up, down, or any other direction. Forward and backward, etc., do not exist. Life is only about you being, and if you are breathing, you are being. Being is the only “where” and “what” there is, and whatever you seek elsewhere takes you from it. The YOU that seeks nothing, nowhere is the grand spectacle, so why search for it elsewhere? If you’re anywhere but here now, you’re going nowhere. Just BE; YOU, after all, are every “where,” and every “thing.”