Touched Upon Itself

Touched upon itself - the world is seamless to all but the senses. There is no aspect of sky separate from breath, and no viewed held apart from the source of vision. We breathe sky, and see just one thing in many shades of wonder. Our senses divide the world to navigate by contrast, to know the depth of beauty, and provide ourselves a unique expression briefly lived. Yet more to this is the understanding of how one thing offers itself to be many for the pleasure of the senses. 

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“I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.” 
― Shih-t'ou

Peace,

Eric 

Played Through

Played through - it's silence that holds the song and allows each note its singular expression. As such our own lives are embraced by a allowing presence that gives right for our music to be heard. More so, we are played through the field of our own existence, a singular note lived brief, yet continued always as the song.

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Peace,

Eric 

The Largeness Of My Truest Self

I cherish my emptiness, those clear moments of seeing that my absence serves to the point of holding only you, that the world becomes in the stretch of my embrace - and even this small life I call as my own is allowed its brief expression in the largeness of my truest self. 

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Bodhisattvas are able to expand their bodies to the ends of the universe. 

                                                                      - Gandavyuha Sutra 

Peace,

Eric 

My Own Absence

My own absence is seen in the details of the world - where I search for self there comes no sign of form nor sense of boundaries. Yet the world is present in the space held as my own, expanding and contracting in scope of view and focus. Clearly, I am that which holds the world and allows for its unfolding. My own absence shows me this in the details and the beauty of the view. 

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Seeing into nothingness - this is the 

true seeing, the eternal seeing. 

- Shen-Hui 

Peace,

Eric 

A Constant Yes

A constant yes - our true self is this acceptance and

nothing more is needed for our 

enlightenment to be

known. 

Our presence denies nothing, does not seek to hold a moment past its due, and even thoughts opposing this view are embraced in spacious understanding. 

It's just how things are. 

It's what we are. 

Peace,

Eric 

To Hold The World In Its Becoming

real beauty does not lie out there and witnessed separate from its source - it's a seamless grace spread as our own wonder, inviting us to know the truth of who we are. Beauty can't be recognized as apart from us, as a flower gives itself to air in a bloom of love, the same allowing space is our own nature calling for us to give ourselves away. As this we are seen in full beauty - not just the flower that has but a moment to be known, but the spaciousness that asks nothing but to hold the world in its becoming. 

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Peace,

Eric 

The Way To Our Enlightenment

attention on breath - we breathe the details of the experience, life touched to lips, and drawn deep to body, released again to air. Yet this alone is not the way to our enlightenment. To be mindful of any quality serves only the moment of attention, our own awakening is simply the shift beyond the moment to the quiet presence that allows this all to happen. True enlightenment is not an experience, it is not a passing state of a concentrated mind - it's only awareness, awake to itself, empty, and serving as the capacity to hold the world. No attention is needed - once seen, all we have to do is be what we are. 

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All

that mystical stuff is just what's so. 

                                                           - Werner Erhard 

Peace,

Eric