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.

What we most fundamentally are—the one constant, the water in every wave, that which we cannot doubt—is this unbound awaring presence that is seamless and whole, without division or separation. What appears is infinitely varied and ever-changing, yet it never departs from the immediacy of right here, right now and can never actually be divided up or pulled apart.

A person is like a waving of the ocean—an ever-changing movement of the whole. There is no substantial boundary between inside and outside. There is only the all-inclusive whole from which nothing stands apart.

Thought labels, conceptually divides, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes the flow of experience, creating the illusion of apparently separate, independent, persisting things, including the mirage-like separate self that is supposedly authoring our thoughts and making our choices. But none of this holds up to careful scrutiny.

Our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, talents, thoughts and actions emerge from the whole. Nothing could be other than exactly how it is in this moment. Realizing this is the freedom to be as we are and for everything to be as it is, including our apparent abilities or inabilities 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.