Just This, As It Is

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.

Experience is ever-changing while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. It is infinitely varied but can never actually be divided up or pulled apart. A person is like a waving of the ocean—an ever-changing movement inseparable from the whole. There is no real boundary between inside and outside. We are this all-inclusive presence, this vast no-thing-ness, this present experiencing.

Thought labels, divides, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes the seamless, boundless, centerless, inconceivable flow of experience, creating the illusion of apparently separate, independent, persisting things, including a self that is supposedly authoring our thoughts and making our choices. But none of this holds up to scrutiny.

Our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, talents, thoughts and actions emerge unbidden. 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 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.