Yet Always So

 

Yet always so:

then, aware...and yet always so. This is awakening, no more than subtle shift in the perception of the moment. To be aware, but to suddenly see that is is central to my focus, that everything belongs within awareness without discrimination. The world is found here, life, and it's all welcomed, brought to my attention through a continuous flow of grace, and mystery. 

this is an obvious awakening, as easy as eyes opening to first light - it's the simple notice of what's always been present to my life, constant, and unchanging in its presence. To say, I am aware, is to announce this presence as reality. It's bringing the obvious to light. 

and the world unfolds from here, it's now open to explore in a new, yet somehow familiar way. It's seeing with true sight, how objects are found seamless within the view, just a continuous flow of one thing given to distinctions. To note a birdsong emerge from silence, how it lingers through the nothingness of air, and then fades to stillness once more. Everything is found whole, complete, without need of an added story, the world is perfect as it is.

with this insight, it's seen that perfect merely means connection, that events coincide in the only way that life allows, and that everything is instantly accepted in the moment it occurs. I am not helpless to the fates, but aware, and given power in my response. I am a participant in all that happens. 

this is not a final awakening, there is no single point to claim enlightenment. It's just being aware, at home now in the world, a bit more at ease, relaxed with how life unfolds. The irony is to awake to what is now,  and has always been, to find aware...yet always so. 

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Peace, Eric