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Open Aware Undivided Presence


There is a vast openness here, a stillness, a spaciousness—can you feel it? This openness 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 inside, no outside, no separation, no division, no other.

This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the immediacy of presence, right here, right now. 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 try to control ourselves and the world, we search for certainty and something to grasp. But in relaxing our grip, opening the heart, and 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. Awake to the actuality and immediacy of presence, we discover the radiance, the beauty, the sacredness, the wonder, and the love that is shining forth everywhere.