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 this ever-present Here-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, nor any findable center to experience.

Thought conceptually divides, labels, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes the flow of experience, creating the illusory sense of apparently separate, independent, persisting things. These things include bodies, minds, the world, and a self that is supposedly authoring our thoughts and making our choices. But does any of this hold up to careful scrutiny?

From where do our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts and actions emerge? In exploring this, we may discover that 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.