Allowingness

Allowingness: 

there's no reason for inquiry other than the sheer joy of resting without the need for answers, asking questions that lead only to the certainty of silence. It's the practice of letting go, more so, of finding ourselves surrendered to the unknowable, yet familiar point of simply being. This can't be known through any traditional way of thinking in these terms. It's not an experience of it's own, but rather the allowingness for all experiences to occur. Inquiry leads us here, not accepting any answers, embraced by the silence that follows after asking. 

it's the practice of being who we are...

before there's even a question. 

inquiry is so valuable because it's never ending, a continuous practice of wonder, being the allowingness for questions to appear and answers to shape themselves to the asking. These are questions that ask only for a revelation, to be shown in the immediacy of their request - an example is to pose the most traditional inquiry of them all, asking the question, who am I?

who am I?

and we are immediately revealed by the allowingness of our asking, and by every answer that appears and again by their dismissal. We could ask this question for the entirety of living and still be surprised at the vibrancy of our reveal. There is no ending answer to our inquiry, but there is a finish to our need for asking, our inquiry now being the joy of revelation. It's called a practice, yet really it's simply a process of seeing ourselves through the variance of every conceivable experience. To ask; who am I? is the allowingness to be continuously surprised by the directness of what's shown. We are never left without an answer, it's always exactly the same, and as well as always being mystery, remaining unknowable to be described, only an allowingness of experience.  

it's what we are.

~

Peace, Eric