Distinctions

Distinctions: 

at some point there no longer seems to be the need to make distinctions, certain ones at least, what was once labeled as spiritual issues are laid aside for the sake of simply being alive, engaged with life on every level, and matters called on to debate no longer hold an interest. Yes, I meditate, and I have what might be called a spiritual practice, one of inquiry and art, creative and full of curiosity and wonder. My bookshelves are full of classic titles of spirituality and I still enjoy them all along with new discoveries. 

but there's nothing to gain from this, no destination of enlightenment.

I have arrived.

sort of. 

what I've really discovered is that beginning and endpoint are in truth the same exact location, and that only a distinction of apparent measurement implies a destination. I will never be enlightened, not in the sense that I will gain a greater consciousness than what's existing now, or find myself gifted with a keener state of awareness that wasn't mine before. To make distinctions between presence and absence is to miss the motion of the world. 

nothing is ever truly missing.

just distinctions made.

this is why debate is futile, again at least on these matters, arguing on the existence of a self is only the appearance of a self debating to an empty hall. There's no issue here to prove, no absolute truth to reach, and no point to really make. Whatever appears is real, but only in a sense, and doesn't need defending, nor proof of its existence. And of course every appearance too comes as an illusion, that its reality hinges on infinite points of conditions being in a certain and specific way, and any shift of view will shine light on the insubstantial reality of any matter. 

it's all just distinctions made.

everything.  

with no point to ever argue. 

~

Peace, Eric