Without Our Effort

Without our effort: 

it's all without our effort, easy in the sense that action takes place without added complications, a deeper wisdom takes hold and guides our every act towards completion. Our bodies reflect this perfectly, and even if struggling through illness or disease there remains an ease of certain functions, a coherence of parts vital for its continuation. There's a distinction to make here, to not dismiss that sometimes life is difficult, that sorrow occurs and suffering is real. All of this is true, and yes, with insight we are able to see through the cause of suffering and lighten the load of sorrow for ourselves and others, Buddha's noble goal, but still the pain of loss is keen, pain and disease remain a struggle. 

yet still the body displays a remarkable show of ease, at least as far as any conscious effort given to it's functions. We don't ask the heart to beat, nor make demands for other organs to perform. Our eyes see without the mind having to first focus their attention, sounds arrive graceful to our waiting ears. None of this occurs through any willful action of our own. 

nature happens, life. 

without effort our effort.

and more remarkable still - we see that cells come into form, creating the very tissues of our bodies, and that every cell is made of molecules, and that atoms lend themselves to a molecule's creation, particles forming atom, until at last we come to...nothing so it seems, or perhaps pure desire, energy, the least effort of the whole universe and its formation. 

everything, and all from what appears to be a simple wish. 

existence.

without our effort we have the entire world, life, the miracle of bodies and existence. Somehow it all occurred, happening still, and with nothing done by us to maintain it. We make no effort exist, just to be here, everything is simply given, granted by right of such incredulous process, cells to molecules and atoms, particles, and all from an absolute field of pure energy and potential. 

and all without our effort,

we exist. 

~

Peace, Eric