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Seamless Presence, Ever-Fresh Aliveness


This one bottomless moment is ever-changing in appearance while never departing from the immediacy of presence, right here, right now. All apparently formed things, including people, are like waves in the ocean—ever-changing and inseparable movements of an undivided whole. There is no inside, no outside, no separation, no division, no other.

The pattern-seeking mind conceptually divides, labels, categorizes, interprets and seemingly concretizes this ungraspable, unpindownable flow, creating a kind of virtual reality seemingly made up of solid, separate, independent, persisting things. We imagine ourselves as a separate self on a journey, authoring our thoughts and making our choices.

But our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts, actions and apparent choices are choiceless movements of an undivided whole. Realizing this is the freedom to be just as we are, and for the apparent world to be just as it is.

When we are hypnotized by the thought-sense of being small and separate from the rest of life, feelings of deficiency, anxiety and dissatisfaction inevitably follow. We try to control ourselves and the world, we search for certainty and something to grasp. But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense freedom.

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.