I Am

I am: 

it's a simple message, and yet also the highest teaching of yoga, Nisargadatta Maharaj urged all who came to see him, those seeking liberation or even just an ease of suffering, to stay with the I am presence, to not stray their way into another concept or take on a new idea of who they might believe they are. It's a clear teaching, putting an immediate end to seeking - I am that - and nothing beyond this has a reality separate of its own, everything belongs as presence. 

of course we could spend a lifetime coming to know this. 

or, 

we could relax exactly as we are right now, without need of any understanding other than that we're whole, complete, residing in our perfect identity already. I'm not sure we need anything more than Nisargadatta's message, to just realize this I am presence and then allow life to proceed its course. This isn't an attainment, it's not something to strive for through effort or methods. 

it's what we are. 

the thing is, everything I say here could be completely wrong, with every point argued by someone who clearly knows more than me. Yet nothing negates presence, my own message isn't words or an explanation told in prose. I'm not a teacher, not enlightened, or in anyway liberated from a life that holds no small degree of suffering and sorrow - 

but...I am. 

and it's this that I return to, easily so, this beingness, alive, aware, and unmistakable. Amazingly, this presence never fails me, always available, resting here for my every stray belief to return home. Truly, there is nothing that I really need to do - I am - and life proceeds from here. 

~

peace, Eric