I just looked - no intention beyond seeing if indeed there was someone existing in a solid state separate from the world. It was an exercise in belief, my own conclusions drawn now for the first time, no reliance on the gospel of secondhand information, only believing exactly in what was found. My first look, attention directed away from objects, tracing my line of vision to its source, in fact, searching to see myself for the very first time, to behold my own eyes and find the place where I believed my thoughts resided.
Nothing.
It could all end here - a novel trick and slight of faith. Yet I found myself in a curious absence of self, with room to explore, aware, and it was this emptiness that held my thoughts, this body that appeared as mine, and further still it held the world, or perhaps better said it was all just one great beholding.
So I just looked.
And I saw.
No my life unfolds from seeing - the view always presenting itself as my own extension and the willingness to simply greet it all in my own spacious awareness.
It really is that easy.
~
Peace,
Eric
*thank you Douglas Harding, Richard Lang, and my Headless friends for pointing me in the right direction a few years back.
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