logo
 
home
books
events
joan
waking
contact
recommended
 


Open Aware Presence


There is a stillness, a spaciousness, an openness at the heart of our being that beholds everything from wholeness and unconditional love. In this open aware presence, there is both infinite potential and compassion for everything being just as it is. There is no separation, no division, no inside, no outside, no other.

This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. Thought conceptually divides, labels, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes the ungraspable, unpindownable flow of experience, creating a kind of virtual reality made up of apparently solid, separate, independent, persisting things.

But it may be discovered that all apparently formed things, including people, are like waves in the ocean—ever-changing and inseparable movements of an undivided whole. When we are hypnotized by the thought-sense of being small and separate from the rest of life, feelings of deficiency, anxiety and dissatisfaction inevitably follow. We search for certainty and something to grasp. But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense openness and freedom.

What is offered here invites firsthand exploration and direct discovery, not belief or dogma. There is no finish-line, no formula, no method, nowhere to go, only this one bottomless moment and this ever-fresh aliveness.