Ungraspable Presence, Right Here, Right Now

Spirituality, as I mean it, is about discovering the love, beauty, joy, wonder, wholeness and sacredness right here in each ordinary moment. And sometimes it's about feeling the pain, grief, anger and sorrow that is part of being alive.

This ever-changing aliveness never departs from the ever-present immediacy of right here, right now. All apparently formed things, including people, are like waves of the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of a boundless and seamless whole.

Believing ourselves to be separate, small, autonomous and supposedly in control, we humans get tied up in imaginary problems—overcome by feelings of deficiency, anxiety, dissatisfaction, guilt and blame—fearing death, trying to control the uncontrollable, searching for certainty and something to grasp.

But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense freedom. Nothing could be other than it is in this moment. In the immediacy of presence here and now, nothing needs to be figured out, eliminated, acquired or purified. Our desires, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts and actions are movements of this indivisible, ungraspable, all-inclusive totality in which everything belongs.

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.