Without Philosophy

Without Philosophy: 

it's really to the point of being without philosophy, and this includes religious thought too, relying now entirely on my own way of seeing the world, the simplicity of being alive and not having the need to know anything as certain, holding my every point of view lightly, easily, and without asserting any lasting value or meaning. This isn't to imply that I see the world as meaningless, far from it really, I see everything with a quality of information, a story, but that this is just the meaning I hold as prominent in the moment, a fresh idea to all I'm seeing, innocent of the ways I've viewed the world before. 

without philosophy. 

there's value in philosophy, and I've spent a lifetime gathering the thoughts of others, we all have, and for me I've found myself mostly partial to Eastern schools, yogic lore, Vedic wisdom, and Buddhist methods of inquiry. Everything was useful, to a point at least, up until the very moment that it was all surrendered to an easier way of seeing the world, my own way, one that always provides me with all the information that's ever really needed, momentary, always ready, available, now. 

it's been important for me to separate technique and methods from any school of philosophy, that my meditation practice be free of expectations, my inquiry without dogma, and that these are simply tools to aid the mind. They only have the value I've assigned them, and they are useful as a means of allowing me to let go of all the beliefs I've accumulated through a lifetime. They are tools without philosophy and it's through their use that I've gain the freedom to let go, surrendering even the means and methods that have brought me here, resting now purely in the moment and whatever thoughts or meaning it may hold, knowing that within an instant another story will be told. 

this isn't a freedom from anything, I'm not removed from thought or stories, not even from philosophies,as everything is included in this freedom, nothing can be denied here by virtue of it's appearance...whatever is found present now...belongs. I'm not really without philosophy, but I am free of any lasting hold it may have on me, free to simply be however the world finds me. Just free. 

easily so. 

~

Peace, Eric