Invitation Home

Invitation home: 

it's a  difference of experience, that meditation invites us to know our own essence, who we are in relation to the thoughts we hold, and how we are a silent, spacious witness to the mind, aware, and so seamlessly connected to the world. Meditation itself isn't a philosophy, although their are many schools of thought that surround its practice, but what it truly is...is just an invitation home.

it's simply sitting, being, and the experiences that unfold. 

and that's what we really are, beingness, always in process of experiencing ourselves through whatever life offers. Our invitation home is only a return to essence, remembering this, and no longer confusing ourselves with the busyness of our current lives. We are witness to it, but more so, seamlessly, we are every experience as well, a deep participant, and not removed from any aspect of the world.

our invitation home is to relax to this, our essence, right now. 

and that's meditation. 

it seems now that modern philosophy, and so often the current study of consciousness, removes itself from this participation, or at least attempts to, leaving things as abstractions, distant, and not believing that it's already involved in the world, everything, and neither science nor philosophy is the exception. Nothing is removed from consciousness. This isn't necessarily stating a panpsychism view of the world, but only reaffirming ourselves as participants, not ever once removed, and that philosophy and the study of consciousness is simply and always the study of who we are.

no exceptions possible. 

if we ask ourselves who we are, a deep consideration taken - the answer is instantly provided, revealed, immediately as all that's going on right now, seamless, our own involvement shown as well. That's the philosophy of the moment, our invitation home, and the only study of consciousness that's ever truly accurate. What we are can only really be known as participation, a community of conscious structure where everything belongs. Meditation, inquiry, is this experience...

it's our invitation home. 

~

Peace, Eric