The Ungraspable Openness of Being

This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the ever-present immediacy of here-now. We are like waves in the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of a seamless indivisible whole, in which every wave includes the whole ocean.

No thinker-chooser-doer can actually be found at the center of experiencing. Our thoughts, behaviors and apparent choices arise from the whole. When we take it all personally and believe that we are small and separate, feelings of deficiency and dissatisfaction inevitably follow.

Waking up from the hypnotic trance of all such thoughts and ideas can only happen now. Attention shifts from the conceptual to the sensory actuality of present experiencing, allowing whatever is appearing to be exactly as it is, not resisting anything. At some point it is recognized that all ideas of bondage and freedom are evanescent appearances, and that all there is in every passing wave of experience, however it may appear, is this ocean of aliveness.

This aliveness has no borders or seams. It has been called consciousness, awareness, presence, intelligence-energy, unicity, the universe, totality, the Tao, God, the ground, emptiness, groundlessness, no-thing-ness, one-without-a-second, the unnamable—but no name can capture the ungraspable openness of being.

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. We habitually search for certainty and something to grasp, but in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense freedom.