Just Don't Know

Just don't know:

mostly, we just don't know - and even with a quiet understanding reached we entertain stories, theories, and beliefs of who we are. It seems there is a temptation for every void to be quickly filled. This is how we arrive to another story being told, from bafflement of ever present mystery to the assurance that our new beliefs are real. 

but mostly, we just don't know.

enlightenment is a story, that we are souls and reincarnate with lessons learned is one as well. Our every text, sacred to us or any other, is written as belief. These words that I'm writing now are as false as every other.  No one truly understands the mystery of our existence, or what survives our passing on, nor even the complexities of what this moment holds. Our stories are meant to help us navigate the world, to aid us in deciphering some personal meaning from the joy and hardships of life. Even science isn't true in any ultimate sense, only a well informed description told through filters of the mind.

without having to know - we are left with awe. 

my own practice to hold things lightly, allowing beliefs to skirt the edge of mind without truly gaining any purchase. This is the headless way, allowing what's happening now first without description, just experience alone, and recognizing when words appear to make a story known. To be headless isn't a metaphor for the absence of a self - but simply a note of present moment and what's found in this awareness. It's about looking, seeing, and abiding in the mystery of it all. 

it's the absence of a story.

and the space for any later story told.

~

Peace, Eric