This Luminous Presence, Right Here, Right Now
This aliveness is ever-changing in appearance while never departing 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 an undivided, interdependent, unpindownable, boundless and seamless unicity.
Hypnotized by the belief in separation, believing our thoughts, mistaking conceptual maps for the living actuality, we seem to get tied up in imaginary problems—overcome by feelings of deficiency, anxiety and dissatisfaction, 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. In the simplicity of this one bottomless moment here and now, nothing needs to be figured out, eliminated, acquired or purified. Nothing needs to be, or could be, other than it appears to be in this instant, and already that instant is gone, but the timeless immediacy of presence remains. This ungraspable presence is the common factor in every different experience.
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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