Of Experience

Of experience: 

from the senses - the world comes to us through sensations, a first purity of experience before translation to categories of events and time. It's our original language, spontaneous, and without description. It's the sound of wonder, innocence, and awe. Yet now it's mostly unspoken, experience muted by common belief that it's all been heard before, that every sight a repeated scene, and that even something new must be described within the mind. 

we've lost out first language.

or perhaps we've just forgotten, maybe unsure and not trusting of our initial response in how we meet the world. We hesitate to give voice to our natural expression, relying now on labels, filling silence with words that only tell a story of a previous moments happening. To speak of the present is the language of magic, of mystery. It's a myriad of sounds, gestures, and allowing silence to be stretched to the full length of its expression. All spontaneous.

as if mystery could be planned. 

this is the language of experience, of first sensations, and is always to the present moment, always now, and still the initial voice we give the world. Only now there's a rush to familiar labels, descriptions to fill what seems a void. We no longer hear our own true voice. But it's present, hushed by current noise, yet still here to be expressed. It's what's happening now, the simple experience of being without effort, each breath drawn and releases in the spontaneous voice of being present. It doesn't take a mindful practice, nor the result of  any special technique. 

relax in the first response of whatever happens now.

it's the genuine experience of whatever is experienced, and without apology for being open to the world. There is no shame in being alive, and we are simply an aspect of life being urged to participate once more, engaged with our own belonging. 

we are asked to speak our first language. 

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Peace, Eric