Life Directly

 Life directly:

without real meaning, nothing said in description that captures any sense of true - it's the experience of life directly that gives hint of what I am, reality always being just this present moment. Everything else is added after this, a memory assigned a certain weight of detail to the mind. Things become meaningful only after passing, a passion for an experience now gone. 

yet this present moment is always open, a fresh invitation to know myself through new unfolding of what life offers. It's right here that listening occurs, sound arising without addition of labels, silence lending itself to the expression of vibrations. It's a true moment. To this I bring description, in a wish to share I write of morning silence broken gently by a single note that grows to complete song. I'll write of how this song was given to me in beautiful chorus, an early gift from the birds outside my window to start my day. This too is true in a way, but not directly so - the moment itself was simply, only listening. Pure, and without my interference, nothing to be added. 

to write of any of this is a delay in my description, always a memory of past moments, giving meaning to what's gone. But it's the present moment that offers me this opportunity, to write of past experience takes place right now, there is no escape from the reality of this moment, and no need to hold a constant vigil of mindfulness to attention. Life is always here, always now. 

relaxing as this, aware, and allowing - meaning will follow, a story will be told. 

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Peace, Eric