that I am always ready, everything received in the only moment that's available - and this too includes all the things that seem to catch me unprepared, from subtle shifts that change the day's agenda to sudden confrontations that bring questions to my faith. Everything is instantly accepted. This isn't to praise my sense of equanimity, nor give cause to mindful practice and meditation. It's about reality, how life is upended without notice and yet somehow, even with a strong denial, what appears now belongs without pause for me to say otherwise. Life happens through its own course of events and in most ways I am powerless in its current. But not helpless. It's in knowing that what is brought to this moment belongs by virtue of its appearance that allows me a certain sense spaciousness, and that my response is equal in this belonging, no matter any judgement of my own.
it's not resignation, it's simply the reality of the moment and the awareness that this an experience of continuation - my reaction in its initial phase and then response to all that follows. There's no plan, there can never be a true plan for the spontaneous play of life. What there is, is the awareness of my own spontaneity, that I joined as life in its current, that I am motion, flexible, and all allowing too. By nature, I am always ready. No matter my response.
so this is the readiness of being alive, life in continuous call and response, natural, effortless, and at no point is it ever any other way. I am always ready because I'm alive, the very same spontaneous play of life that delivers in surprise, nothing is excluded from my own sense of presence. It's reality - and in this awareness, everything belongs.
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Peace, Eric
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