Of Dharma

Of dharma: 

my sense of dharma is not of a path to follow, no duty nor purpose to perform, it's my own individual and unique expression of each moment, and can't help but be known and demonstrated through the ease of simply being alive. Dharma is a Sanskrit word that has multiple meaning in many Eastern religions generally implying either our aim and drive in life, aligned with the greater universal purpose, or more often in Buddhist terms as reality as seen through the teachings of the Buddha. Western thought has adopted the term to largely mean finding our true path to follow, our reason and purpose for being born, our lives being meant to serve and fulfill this cause. 

and maybe this is so.

it's not for me to argue this wisdom, I'm not wise enough to know, and certainly often wonder if I found my own one true cause, if there's a reason why I'm here at all. Evolution points mainly to chance, a long line of fortunate events for ancestors, surviving just long enough to create one more link in the chain that led to my creation. I'm here to continue this evolutionary link of species survival. Of course this leaves out soul, consciousness, a deep sense that I am more than just a biological process fulfilling a purpose to continue and see my species thrive. I see both as being true, with no need to deny my biological function and animal behavior, nor that I am somehow more than this, yes, divine in a sense that I'm aware of my unique position in the world, awake, conscious of my awareness to it all.

my sense of dharma is to be alive, and aware that it's so.

yet something more too, if there is a purpose than it's just, and only, in this very moment, as nothing further is ever promised or revealed. My sense of being divine leads me here as well, that this moment provides the means for the holy expression of my singular and unique way of being, a duty to be exactly as I am, now, without need to find a path from here to any other moment of existence. Just here, nowhere else, and always, always, now. In this light, my sense of dharma is immediately fulfilled, that I am nowhere else but here, and always present to this moment. This doesn't mean that I am always mindful of every detail that unfolds - my wandering mind, daydreams, and memories of other times belong as surely as any other quality that's displayed. 

everything belongs.

this moment, right now, is my true and only purpose, my reason for being here is life itself, expressed through every means available, unique to my own conditions and present situation, ever changing, fluid, artful in display. Yes, I'm an artist of sorts, aware of this opportunity to be a conscious participant of this moment's demonstration. Yet more so, deeper, I'm an aspect of artistic design, evolutionary, biological, particles in a whirl of form. My sense of dharma urges me to simply be alive, relaxed, and be true to the purpose of this moment. 

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Peace, Eric