Simply Being Alive

We habitually search for special experiences, for certainty and something to grasp. But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense openness and freedom.

Experience is ever-changing while never departing from the immediacy of here-now. It is infinitely varied but can never actually be divided up or pulled apart. There is no boundary between inside and outside. A person is like a waving of the ocean—an ever-changing movement inseparable from the whole.

Thought labels, divides, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes this seamless, boundless, centerless, inconceivable flow of experience, creating the illusion of apparently separate, persisting things, including a self that is supposedly authoring our thoughts and making our choices. But none of this holds up to scrutiny.

Our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, talents, thoughts and actions emerge unbidden. Nothing could be other than exactly how it is in this moment. Seeing this is the freedom to be as we are and for everything to be as it is, including our urges and actions to change, heal or correct things.

What is offered here invites firsthand exploration and direct discovery, not belief or dogma. It points to the simplicity of being what we cannot not be, this one bottomless moment, right here, right now, just as it is. There is no finish-line, no formula, no method, nowhere to go, only this ever-fresh aliveness.