Just this, right here, right now
This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. Thought conceptually divides, labels, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes the ungraspable, unpindownable, seamless flow of experience, creating a kind of virtual reality made up of apparently solid, substantial, separate, independent, persisting things.
But all apparently formed things, including people, are like waves in the ocean—ever-changing and inseparable movements of an undivided whole in which there is infinite variation but no actual separation—no inside or outside, no other.
When attention is hypnotized by thoughts, stories and beliefs, and especially by the thought-sense of being small and separate from the rest of life, seeing everything from partiality rather than from wholeness, feelings of deficiency, anxiety, conflict and dissatisfaction inevitably follow. We search for certainty and something to grasp.
But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense openness and freedom. What is offered here invites firsthand exploration and direct discovery, not belief or dogma. There is no finish-line, no formula, no method, nowhere to go, only this one bottomless moment and this ever-fresh aliveness.
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