Our problem isn't that we have problems, but that we seek to contain them within an imaginary framework of existence. Life offers itself in contradictory form, we cling most to what will never stay and let pass the truth of who we really are. Or so it seems. The reality is that life happens to no one, it's expressed in every conceivable way through the open, allowing, nature of our presence. We are witness to it's happening, yet fully engaged as well. In a subtle shift of sight, we can arrange ourselves to recognize our endless capacity that allows all this to be. We can see form emerge from formlessness and somehow know ourselves as both. We can be room for problems, for life, and the full range of their expressions. Here's how to see - look at the objects of the world, find their place as a singular point of being, now look back to the origin of the view. Truly search for a face belonging to a viewer. Even a mirror reveals only what is seen forward. The source of sight - is sightless. So it is for all things, sounds emerge from silence, thoughts from the eternal stillness of true mind. Our problem is that we believe problems exist here, within the reality of our existence. They don't. This makes them no less real in the moment of their presence. Yet now, seeing who we really are - we abide as space that allows their passage.
Peace,
Eric
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