Our Conceptual World

Our conceptual world: 

so what we really have is a conceptual world, and more so, our own image is constructed in the very same way and the validity of it all is never even questioned. We live with and as images, none of it true in a real sense, and this has entrapped us in a world of self-created suffering. The path of Jhana Yoga offers us one means of escape, relentless self-inquiry and study until we see straight through to the truth. Buddhism too is designed to guide us through illusions, eventually, with committed effort, we arrive to a clear view of ourselves and the world. 

yet for me,

 I love the quick means of forgiveness. 

and what I forgive is every illusion presented, each story that appears is my opportunity to see through my perceptions to the clarity of truth - with, honestly, varying degrees of success. But the opportunity is always there, and the more willing I am to forgive, the easier it is to navigate through an often harsh and difficult world. That's actually how we forgive, really, the only effort is in the request to see things differently, accepting the stories that we've told and asking to seeing everything a bit more clearly. If even just a little.

truthfully, all we ask for is light.

and that's already present.

it's in this way...

that we awaken from the world we've dreamed.

~

I love you, Eric

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Stories

Stories: 

we're all hero's in our own stories, or mostly so I believe, thinking of ourselves as underdogs who struggle against great odds and occasional enemies in order to achieve a sense of belonging in the world. Seldom, if ever, do we consider that we might be the villain in someone else's story - that we are the very obstacle that stands between them and their fulfillment. Of course it's a shifting cast, how we see others now might change throughout our story, someone viewed unworthy might now prove helpful, or a trusted ally falls from favor and shows, in our review at least, their true colors. 

and so it goes.

forever it seems.

yet here, arrives forgiveness,

transcending the story all together.

everyone of them.

forgiveness removes us from the shifting story, it promises us nothing but hero's, as every character is out to save us in their own particular way. What we see is that the world is based entirely on our perceptions and that we are the cause for every shifting pattern. No one is removed from this, everyone belongs on the stage of their creation. We have projected our cast and the role they'll play. But forgiveness sees straight through this, it doesn't limit anyone to a single scene, or typecast anyone within a role. It simply sees everything as a vast expansion of an ever present love that is meant to light the world. 

forgiveness is without judgement.

it's without stories.

and with this...

we're free.

no more stories told. 

~

Peace, Eric

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Stories

Stories: 

at this point in my life I'm done with stories, or at least getting myself overly involved in the stories of the world. By this I don't mean to imply that I don't care for others and their concerns. It's that things have simplified for me considerably, joyfully so, and I find myself forgiving easier, returning love to pretty much all that's offered, and more ready to let go of everything that doesn't seem to serve me. There's just no need to over complicate my life with stories.

not even a better one.

and that's what often seems to happen, we upgrade, believing that another belief or philosophy will bring us freedom. We're chasing truth at the cost of joy, adding layers of stories to already existing stories, and then complicating the simplicity of the present moment. This is feeding a spiritual addiction that only keeps us trapped within another story, always expanding to hold one more secret truth that fails to truly set us free. 

the truth is - there is no better story

just a different one.

and joy is only found right now.

this moment.

alone.

so with this, at a certain point in my life, there has a comes a great surrender, relinquishing story after story, letting go of versions of truth and settling into a life of continuous forgiveness.Everything else has remained the same, meditation and yoga still a joyful practice, and I'm open to explore different stories than my own. I just don't buy into them, no version of truth is more vital than what's found within a moment of real forgiveness. 

and that's what always brings me home.

it's the peace of letting go.

forgiving along the way.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Stories

Stories: 

each morning I'm greeted by a blank screen that promises to hold whatever words that might arrive to me, nothing lingers from the past day's writing, it's a fresh gift of pure potentiality. So too is the nature of forgiveness, it erases those lingering effects of every past day, allowing me to begin my day with new inspiration to give to the page. 

we are stories that we tell to each other.

and forgiveness is the gift for a better story to be told.

or better still,

to simply love ourselves, 

and others,

free of any story.

simply as we are right now.

~

Peace, Eric 

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