Notes on Recovery

this is about recovery - but not from anything, these aren't words of encouragement to overcome an addiction or breakaway from a certain situations and habits. This is a recovery of something that's not been lost, yet has been forgotten and unrecognized for so long and so many. Perhaps better said, this will be an uncovering, removing veils of thoughts, beliefs and simple oversight that prevents us from truly seeing essentially what we are - in this space uncovered we will see ourselves as endless capacity for our world to be. And our world is meant as personal inclusion, for it is shaped by thoughts and emotions that lead us to the world we see and believe in. We see only a world that is believed into existence. But in reality there is so much more, and so much less to see. 

In a sense, this is about addiction - we are addicted to what we believe, to our own narration of our stories. What we'll recover is just a sense of relaxation and restful awareness. It's a recovery because it's natural, always present, available and our true nature. It's what we are. So we don't break away from our addictions, we don't turn away or deny that which is occurring - addiction or otherwise. We only recognize that something is occurring, happening right now, and from that point of reference comes an inquiry - who or what is aware of this happening? 

We now become aware of this awareness, no label, no special state of bliss and wonder - just aware. And more so, it's an infinite list of what this awareness holds: breath, thought, heartbeat, emotions, appearance of another, absence of another, scents, sound....

It's endless. 

So where do our addictions belong? 

This is about looking. 

It's not about changing anything. Of course that may happen on it's own. Attention has a certain magic to it and once awareness is brought to attention there comes a sense of expansion that helps loosen our hold on what we once thought was so personalized. Nothing is truly ours if it belongs in the non-personalized space of awareness.

Not even our addictions. 

Trace anything to it's point of origin and we arrive at emptiness - find this original emptiness and we see that it is full of all that makes up the world, our own inner world and the world at large. Point from an object held within view to back towards our assumption of a viewer, an honest appraisal of what is seen. 

Our own nature is always clear.

Point to this clarity - and we are recovered. 

Or uncovered.

The rest is details, Important details to be sure, But this is our starting point. And our end point as well. Our openness, our clarity, that which we may always point to - is what we are. Recovery is always now. 

~

Peace,

Eric