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Just this, right here, right now


This one bottomless moment is ever-changing while never departing from the immediacy of right here, right now. All apparently formed things, including people, are like waves of the ocean—ever-changing, inseparable movements of an undivided, unpindownable wholeness.

Hypnotized by the belief in separation, believing our thoughts, mistaking conceptual maps for the living actuality, we seem to get tied up in imaginary problems—overcome by feelings of deficiency, anxiety and dissatisfaction, fearing death, trying to control the uncontrollable, searching for certainty and something to grasp.

But in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense freedom. In the simplicity of being just this moment, nothing needs to be figured out, eliminated, acquired or purified. Nothing needs to be, or could be, other than it is in this moment.

Our urges, desires, impulses, interests, preferences, abilities, thoughts, intentions, actions and apparent choices are movements of this indivisible all-inclusive unicity. Realizing this is the freedom to be just as we are, including our apparent abilities or inabilities to change, heal or correct things.

Waking up is about discovering the love, beauty, joy, wonder and wholeness of life right here in each ordinary moment and realizing that everything is sacred, even what seems broken.

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.