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One Infinite Undivided Whole


This one bottomless moment is ever-changing while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. All apparently formed things, including people, are like waves of the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of an undivided, unpindownable whole. That whole has been given many names: Consciousness, Awareness, Presence, intelligence-energy, unicity, the Tao—but no name or conceptual formulation can capture the living actuality.

Our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts, intentions, actions and apparent choices are movements of this indivisible all-inclusive unicity, no more personal than the weather. In the simplicity of here-now-presence, nothing needs to be figured out, eliminated, acquired or purified. Nothing needs to be, or could be, other than it is in this moment. Realizing this is the freedom to be just as we are, including our apparent abilities or inabilities to change, heal or correct things.

Believing ourselves to be separate independent agents apart from the whole, and mistaking conceptual maps for the living actuality, we are easily overcome by feelings of deficiency, anxiety and dissatisfaction. We fear death, try to control the uncontrollable, and search desperately for certainty and something to grasp.

But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense freedom. What is offered here invites firsthand exploration and direct discovery, not belief or dogma. There is no finish-line, no method, no future goal, only this ever-fresh aliveness.