What It Shows

What it shows:

what it shows is seamless - that everything belongs at once, as it is, without true borders that call for things to be a certain way. The world is not divided. A tree isn't found as an object on it's own, apart from earth and its reach separate from sky. It's a seamless touch of one thing, distinct, yet still and always belonging as the whole. 

this too, is how we fit in, just as seamless as a tree - our soul is of the earth, roots deep, and our every breath is drawn from sky. This is our belonging. There's no need to think of heaven, nor wish for any salvation that isn't present now. 

we are home. 

to know this, to truly feel at home - we only have to see. For me, this is a headless view, to follow Douglas Harding's instructions of pointing at any object, noting that it seems independent from my own existence, separate and distant. This is how the world is usually seen, everything in parts, broken from any semblance of being whole. Yet is it so? Is it the only way to see the world? 

this inquiry shows otherwise - to continue pointing, but from objects now to something more near. Turning finger towards the seer, to actually point at the source which holds the view...and only more view is found, no face is seen, headless, without seer. It's impossible to point and see ourselves as a separate source within the view. In a sense, we;re absent from it all. Here's the emptiness of the Buddhist heart sutra, the Vedic field of possibilities, the offered void of  quantum physics. 

but, of course there's more - this is not an ordinary absence, this is a full, awake, emptiness for the worlds becoming. Everything is found here. This, here, is where we belong. So, now we're seeing, and what it shows is seamless. What we most truly are - is both, and at once. We are the fulfillment of emptiness, capacity in services of our hold. 

we are seamless too. 

in this way we don't have to make bold distinctions, that everything must be seen a certain way - our world is much too inclusive for that, far too seamless for anyone thing to overrule. We've been shown that everything seen belongs for however long its stay. 

and this includes our own appearance. 

~

Peace,

Eric