Awareness can only be experienced. You cannot possess it like a car, a house, or an education. Possession is the endgame of all searches, and “finding” what you seek is the end of awareness. Do you see? Fixation, attachment, beliefs, and ritual cause stagnation, and living, which is wild and crazy, mysterious, and uncertain, always takes a hit when you make a claim to any formula or particular way. The infinite cannot be corralled into the finite scope of your mind, and “what YOU are” first, before a single thought, is infinite.
If you must search, may it lead you nowhere; that, at least, is much closer to awareness than anything or anywhere you think you need to get otherwise.
Bozebits
You and you alone give life meaning! Don’t look for life to have meaning for you! We have it all backward. Humans obsess over finding reasons for the life they are living when, in reality, life lives us. Did you get that? Life lives YOU! Nothing exists without YOU. If there is a purpose for living, then YOU are the maker of that purpose! Do you see? There is nothing you’re supposed to be or do, nor is there a right or wrong formula for doing it, and nothing you experience has purpose or meaning because YOU give meaning to life. YOU do not need to seek life; life seeks YOU! So let it find you by dropping all your reasons for finding it.
Bozebits
Hindsight is blindsight. Not 20-20 as the saying goes. You can speculate about all the scenarios you could’ve, should’ve, or would’ve done in the past, and all the brilliance you devise looking back takes you out of NOW and adds a whole lot of noise and lament to the only “real” experience you can have. You cannot add to life, repair it by looking back at a non-existent past, or apply it to a non-existent future. Living now is 20-20, and it is all there is or will ever be. The only switch that gives you clarity is the one that turns your mind off. Do it now so you can “BE” now!
Bozebits
What you consider your purpose in life is just another identity built around what isn’t. Few ever consider that a soup bowl is more than the hard surface it seems to be. Without the space the form provides, the bowl would be useless. Do you see? Purpose is just another thing we make up, then cling to, which narrows focus, confines awareness, and disregards the infinite. Within you is the space for all that is, but you can perceive it only if you look past the form surrounding it. That is, the “purpose” you give it. Emptiness is absent purpose, but without it, nothing exists! Form, your form, is merely a sideshow to the infinite and spaceless, timeless YOU are the infinite. Enjoy your soup!
Bozebits
The truth of you, as told in the story you tell, is not the real story of you. It’s what you don’t tell. Ego needs to claim its victories over life’s tribulations, its comebacks, and rising from the ashes, but it does so to paint over the real, which is untold. No ego is humble enough to reveal the truth. That’s just its nature. So what to do?
The best story is no story. You express what YOU are by living what is, as is, and all that needs telling is alive and real without embellishment, and all who actually hear quietly marvel. That’s because what YOU are is marvelous, despite the story you think others must hear. Plain and simple. Nothing you say speaks louder than what YOU are.
Bozebits
I say this often, but it cannot be stressed enough. “YOU are the creative center of the universe.” That is, nothing exists that is not kissed by YOU, the Divine, the Creator! YOU infuse the very essence of life into the living, and nothing perceived or not perceived is without the unfathomable mystery YOU breathe into it. To know YOU is to know your creations. I cannot look at anything and not “know” YOU; notwithstanding, “I stand all amazed!”
Bozebits
As long as you believe you can derive answers from the life you experience and all the unique forms it takes, you will never have “peace of mind.” The only peace that comes through the mind is shutting off conscious thought altogether. In other words, “peace of mind” is a “mindful” myth. When your mind is still, something else takes over, and whatever that is lies beyond conscious awareness, extending into the infinite reaches of unspeakable beauty. You can only experience such beauty, but not as an expression of your mind and its thoughts; rather, wonder and awe untethered from any thought whatsoever. Be quiet so that forces beyond your imagining can play on a field of no thing. There is no possible “peace of mind,” but unimaginable peace can be found in silence!
Bozebits
Take the whys out of living, and you will end up with a life. A life free of the mind-made nonsense that blinds you and everyone else to unfathomable beauty. Besides, whatever your mind comes up with is made up and pales in comparison to what is unspoken, unknown, and perhaps unknowable. “Not knowing,” resting in a sea of silence, is the purest form of “knowing.”
Bozebits
We all walk blindly through life. That is, what you know, think, believe, or conjecture is not what gets you through it. All of that is “the blindness.” There is no “getting through” life. There is only life living you, and there is no “know-how,” “been there, done that,” for the moment you experience now. No rules, precursors, or practice runs that prepare you for this moment. There is just you and what is, and you can’t “know” anything else. That, however, is when your eyes truly open; that is, the “eyes” of awareness. Real awareness, unencumbered by your mind, which doesn’t know how to let you experience it. Your mind will convince you that you are “flying blind,” but if you are truly aware, YOU ARE FLYING HIGH! Do you see? You fly highest when life lives YOU. “Be still,” and enjoy!
Bozebits
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.