One Bottomless Moment
Being here is simple. Effortless. Unavoidable. This one bottomless moment is the only actuality, and here it is. Experience is ever-changing while never departing from the ever-present immediacy of here-now. All apparently formed things, including people, are like waves of the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of an undivided, unpindownable whole.
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. Nothing 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 things.
Believing ourselves to be autonomous and separate from the whole, and mistaking conceptual maps for the living actuality, we are easily overcome by feelings of deficiency, anxiety, guilt, blame 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.
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