Presence

Presence: 

it's presence, clear, unencumbered by the weight of thoughts, and yet all allowing to their passage and the length of time they might linger. That's really what the search is for, the seeker's quest, just the simplicity and ease of simply being exactly as we are right now. The search itself may be amazing, taking us to deep states of consciousness, arriving to other worlds through the use of shamanic techniques and the use of magical substances. But the end result is always here, our only true home, presence, and it's who we are, right now, without need of any search at all. 

presence is who we are before our sense of self-identity takes a firm and certain hold, it's our birthright, our clearest point of being. It's never lost, but it's soon forgotten in our rush to enter the busyness of life, to make our place known within the world. This is what we yearn for through the years of stress,as we attempt to earn our place in life, a return to what we believe is gone, thinking that we somehow lost the innocence that we once had so long before. 

yet presence remains.

always. 

and it is innocent, that's our original sense of being, unmarred by any other beliefs of who we are, it's the true and only garden and we were banned from our return. Of course this is so often the mistake, to write of it as if it's a place outside our present moment, somewhere not here, and with the proper means and methods we could return to there, eventually finding our way home. Presence is without a true place, there are no borders here, no boundaries or constraints. Before a thought becomes present, we are, as we think, presence remains, as every thought eventually passes - we are here, stillness itself, silence, simply and only beingness. 

there's really no search for this, it's right here, not as something that we become, but always being the simplicity of who we are, this very moment, no practice needed for our return. Presence is what we are, and it can never not be what we are. There is no return.

we are here. 

always. 

~

Peace, Eric