Deep and Quiet Joy

Deep and quiet joy: 

for me, meditation and inquiry aren't tools to reach a certain spiritual view, or a means of achieving a specific state of mind, really they're not tools at all but different modes of my creative expression. Meditation is how I join the morning and my closing point to the day, bookends of my surrender, a softening to any edge that seems to appear between myself and the world. My mantra is a vehicle that carries me to this surrender, an easy grace that vibrates through my mind, a frequency of a quiet way of being. This is something that I love, a simple ritual of my day, and doesn't have to be the cause of any great awakening...it's enough in the deep and quiet joy that it offers to me. 

it's just something that I love to do.

of really, I should say happen, as both meditation and inquiry are an urge of surrender, not something that I do at all, but more of a request that I simply follow. Inquiry is spontaneous for me now, happening at odd moments through the day, a sudden point of complete surrender and exploration of the seamless reality that presents itself to me. It's my invitation to know myself directly as the moment, how everything is occurring as a single flow of motion, energy in different modes of this unique and only once appearing expression. Inquiry offers me another flavor of this deep and quiet joy, one of recognition, more active than my silent meditation, showing me that I too am the motion of the world, an integral part of this creative energy, always shifting in appearance. 

inquiry shows me what I truly am...

through any moment of the day. 

yet none of this is the cause for my deep and quiet joy, meditation and inquiry are simply revelations to what's always present, just another point of reference in the creative flow of my existence. It's what I'm asked to do and not for any reason or purpose...

but only as something that I love to do. 

~

Peace, Eric