Just This Is It, Right Here, Right Now

This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. The bodymind and the whole universe appear and disappear in this boundless presence like waves in the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of an undivided whole in which there is no inside, no outside, no separation, no division, no other.

We've learned to shrink down and identify this undoubtable aware presence as "me," a mind encapsulated inside a body, a character in a story, a separate self supposedly authoring our thoughts, making our choices, and living in an outside world of solid, persisting things. But is that our actual experience? And is it true?

By attending to our actual experience, it may be recognized that our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts, actions and apparent choices are choiceless movements of an undivided whole. Realizing this is the freedom to be just as we are, and for the apparent world to be just as it is.

When we are hypnotized by the belief that we and everyone else are autonomous agents, and by the thought-sense of being small and separate from the rest of life, feelings of deficiency, guilt, blame, anxiety and dissatisfaction inevitably follow. We try to control ourselves and the world, we fear death, and we search 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.