Without My Interference

Without my interference: 

my practice is the breath, not to note its passage, but to simply allow the innate intelligence of life to be expressed without my interference. There is no need for mindful participation, although I often draw a breath in deep appreciation, released as a thankful sigh of air. The true practice is to just be alive, to err and see how life responds in wonder. This moment, right now, is where every path leads to, and a lifetime of breaths, of heartbeats in repeated rhythm, a body acting through a wisdom of it's own - has brought me here with certainty. 

yes, I meditate, I give time to what might be considered spiritual acts, moments given to inquiry and simply silence. Yet done of this is practiced with a hope to deliver me to a lofty position of enlightenment, it just seems how my life has come to be expressed. It's no different than breathing really, life has urged me in this direction in a gentle, repeated fashion. I find myself living with an intent truly not my own, perhaps more a whispered grace that guides me. 

yet it's all without my interference.

of course I've tried to interfere, claiming every success as my mine, and what seemed failure blamed to the circumstances of life. I believed that life was my own, that I was a bold leader commanding an unfamiliar world. And of course I was mistaken. There was, there is, really no way to interfere - life happens with my full participation through every function, each breath, and everything is included as a working, organic unit of the whole. It's complete. I'm complete. 

so are you. 

my practice is life, however it unfolds, and what it brings simply what I deal with each moment. Nothing special, no spiritual wish for things to be other. Just life. And if I find myself in full lotus, incense burning, and a chant to bring healing - it's no different than the breath. 

it's how my life is now expressed. 

~

Peace, Eric