Of Simply Being

Of simply being:

it's the ease of simply being, no stress, nor strain to achieve a certain state of mind, no self that needs immediate improvement. Life itself is fine, and yes, even with its tragic moments and circumstances that leave us wrecked in passage. Through these events, life continues, never wavering in its course of possibilities and new beginnings. 

suffering is an inescapable aspect of life, and so too is our wish to avoid it and to better ourselves to the point of being untouched by life's sorrows. Yet we are never removed from the fullness of all the world offers - from the depths of losing what we cherish, to the joys brought by love and true connections, it's all gifted to the moment of our experience. 

Nothing more is ever promised. 

we take these moments as handed, and no response is really ever a refusal - our grief doesn't deny any loss, but brings focus to our present sorrow. Suffering isn't optional, not anymore than joy can can be avoided, both belong to the moment that their given, entwined through the very fabric of all life offers. To know of one is to hold the other in awareness, not to contrast between, but to see that life is not selective in its flow, we are all touched in similar ways of loss and bounty. 

We know of life and all it offers. 

my own sense, now, is one of simply being - I won't escape life unharmed, and already there's been sorrow to the point of my surrender, as well as such joy to bring me to my knees in deep appreciation. I've known life fully. Through it all there was no escape as to what came, for every circumstance avoided, life brought equal in another way. This is karma in it's truest and only sense, that life is motion and action, and reality will not bend to my demands or wishes. Life happens, and with this simplicity I relax to its grace and mystery, accepting each moment in it's arrival, as well any wish for things to be other. It all belongs, nothing excluded, nor denied. This is the true ease of simply being...and it all happens completely on it's own. 

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Peace, Eric