Being present has nothing to do with what is happening now and focusing on specific things in your experience. It is knowing “what YOU are” at the moment regardless of any particular happening and allowing it without judgment or commentary. YOU are the eye of the hurricane, e.g., the calm amidst the storm.
Ultimately, YOU are “happening” to all that is happening, and your presence quietly graces the infinite, which is now. Amazing!
Bozebits
Collective outrage takes root in a single heart at war with itself plus another, plus another, etc. Do you see? Plusses and minuses are you aligning with a feeling or mood that does nothing more than separate you from YOU, and while “you” may feel energized and victorious, YOU are nowhere to be found.
No collective is worth your loss of wholeness and connection. Where’s your heart? Not that one, the real one!
Bozebits
My joy, your suffering. Your point of view, my judgment. My anger, your glee. Your lowliness, my arrogance. My awareness, your blindness. Your love, my hate, my politics, your religion, your education, my weak-mindedness. My loss, your gain, and on and on and on. See a pattern?
All because what’s “yours” is believed, and what’s “mine” is believed. No one can see through beliefs. Thus, while preserving what’s mine and what’s yours, we all walk blindly into a non-existent reality upheld by unbelievable nonsense believed! Can you see?
When you fail to see that the inner beauty of those not like you is different from what you claim yours to be, it’s time to shed your beliefs. They’ve made you blind, and blindness is no way to experience something so grand as life right now in whatever it has served up! Please don’t take my word for it, but do give it a try. You won’t believe it, and that’s a good thing!
Bozebits
“Can life be more meaningful?” the questioner asked. “Don’t you mean that you have some idea of what life can give you that makes you feel better about it?” was the answer.
No part of your experience is happening because you believe it is for your good, bad, or unfolding some purpose you want it to have. You (ego) bring(s) all of that to the party, and what you think is a buzzkill for any party. Regardless of what you experience, YOU are the most incredible show on earth, and while it is all yours, it has nothing to do with anything you “thought” it should be. What you believe “meaningful” isn’t. Living what is, is.
Bozebits
That with which we identify is that which divides us. It is easy to say, “We are all one,” but we are separate from everything if we identify with anything. “Who we are” is unimportant; “what we are” doesn’t care. It has no identity. Find the “what” that lies beneath the “you” (identity). That is the place of oneness; it is the ultimate beauty!
Bozebits
A leads to B, C, D, etc., the causal world we are told to live in and accept. However, such a world is also the basis for “I am not responsible for my life.” In other words, someone or something pressing on me caused it to happen, and “I” therefore need not accept what happens as something I willingly accept as the experience I am seeking. WRONG! A, B, C, and D all exist simultaneously with “you” in realms you cannot begin to comprehend in human form, making you the non-caused effect of all that is. Do you see? A B, C, and D do not exist before your experience of yourself, so nothing “presses” on you that isn’t already YOU.
Lose the thinking and vocabulary of “to me,” e.g., “why, is this happening to me,” or “this shouldn’t be happening to me, etc., etc.” In time, you will know that all that happens is YOU, being you in a non-causal experience. The “effects” of which are nothing but YOU, albeit incredible!
Bozebits
You cannot know or explain the human condition (no one can) until you know your own, and you will never know your own. The only life to-do is your life, and it is in no way, shape, or form applicable to anyone other than you, and it is a twenty-four-seven affair that never takes a break. Get busy; you are all there is, but there is plenty of “you” to-do!
Bozebits
The awareness most seek begins amidst a nightmare created in the mind and well-articulated in speech. In other words, your judgment of how horrible things are is not the place to start anything, let alone spiritual awareness. Your mind will always remind you of the difficult position from which your search began, and that will be the anchor keeping you from what it is you think you must find.
You must awaken within the nightmare you have determined exists and “get” that what you think is real is only because you think it. The awakening that keeps you separate is a continuation of an already predetermined nightmare you believe is what separates you from it. In other words, sweet dreams and nightmares are not real. YOU are!
Bozebits
The present IS the destination. There is nothing before or beyond YOU now, as is.
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The “search” for most is a return to the safety and security of the mythological garden where all wants are fulfilled, and mother, father, and angels stand guard to protect you. In other words, “safety is the search, and it never ends because “what YOU are” never appears in such a garden. You will never find “what YOU are” but among the thorns and thistles. Do you see? Adam and Eve were not cast out of the garden, they were cast into it. Let go of your “garden (idyllic) home” and something unfathomable will appear, e.g., YOU.