Seamless Too

often, I am reminded that it really is right here, now, this moment at hand as my awakening - emptiness noted by the rush of world that meet it. The view is seamless, awake to itself, and I belong within the whole of it, seamless too in my existence. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Of An Empty Page

and really, perhaps I have no right to try and talk of this - giving words to mystery is an impossible pursuit, bound to always end in failure. Even these few words have done little more than obscure the patience of an empty page, 

yet still they are 

received 

 accepted 

and with that there's nothing more to say...

~

Peace,

Eric 

Tenderness Beneath The Bodhi Tree

as the Buddha sat beneath the Bodhi tree, seeking enlightenment, it was not a challenge, nor act of defiance to keep his inner demons at bay - no, it was an invitation expressed in the subtle language of acceptance, tenderness given to each attack, intimacy with what appears and equal care to all that passes. It was a willingness to simply be in the faith of change and mystery. 

Our own Bodhi tree is this very moment - and too there

are demons at hand. 

Right now, we are the Buddha...open, willing, inviting all to

meet in the same tenderness of our

acceptance. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Simply Tenderness

nothing is invited, as well we don't deny a thing to present moment - in this regard we are choiceless to what the world offers and equal in our acceptance. This is the simplicity of awareness, of resting in original nature and allowing life to be in wonder, sorrow and surrender. We are simply tenderness for what arrives - presence for it all to be.

~

Peace,

Eric 

My Own Drop Of Nourishment

it's really just an observation - an obvious truth overlooked by virtue of direction.We hold the world as an outward appearance, and as such it seems to come with a degree of separation. To find you in my view is to see us apart from each other, an object that has its own existence independent of my own. Yet there is another way of seeing - to note a tree is to find both earth and sky in a seamless touch from either end, it's to trace a raindrop of nourishment from leaf to cloud and then to sea. We find nothing removed from the whole. To note further, looking from same tree to the point of our observation is to find the same seamless path of one existence. We are not removed from the whole. And so to find you in my view is to see my own becoming, my own drop of nourishment that brings me to the world. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Nothing Found Fully As The World

examined - and our place

found fully as the

world

We find nothing that is not of us, nothing that contains us, and nothing as the source for what we seem to be. Yet somehow still, we are found wholly in the world. 

And so the mystery goes...

~

Peace,

Eric 

Nothing But My Own Sudden Wonder

perhaps there is no true becoming - just one thing appearing as various aspects of itself. But still there is this subtle, sudden wonder of what it seems that I become. The world is a mystery in what it offers. To find myself at once no less than the continuation of a tree, and no more too than the empty space touched against its branches - yes, I have become nothing but my own sudden wonder. 

~

Peace,

Eric