That We Are The Pure, Open Field of Reception

it's not us - we are not so powerful as to allow or deny the whims of everyday life. There is no central character that directs awareness. Things are allowed by virtue of appearance alone, and even our demands for circumstances to be other are held within this embrace. Life happens in its varied course of giving - and our true power is not one of choosing what we would wish to receive but the recognition that we are the pure, open field of reception. 

We are participants in all that happens. 

We are life in full 

allowance to

itself. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Perfect, Beautiful, Paradox, Living

it's the way things are - holy, and completely ordinary, and 

life happening through and as 

awareness. 

nowhere are we apart from this, an awake participant as well as the

open capacity for it all to be. 

it's perfect

even in the tragedy of everyday affairs - it's life in the 

broken whole of our completion. 

beautiful

paradox

of living

~

Peace,

Eric 

We Are

it's right here, a full circle to our understanding, and again the search brings us to this very moment. Awakening seems a journey, and indeed at times we may believe we are far from where we wish to be - yet our great surprise is that we travel not to become enlightened but to discover that every step itself is an awakening onto itself. There is nowhere else to be, no place of discovery not immediately unfolding, and no journey to enlightenment that is not already complete. We have been told to Be Here Now - and in truth, and always, we are. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

It Is

it is - and that's the sum of existence, everything seen, heard and touched is at once within this great belonging. This is the simplicity of being, nothing is done or needed to cause the world to exist, to give rise to the awareness that everything is, and that we too are part of this arising. I find myself in awe that I am included, an appearance in the world, as well the undivided awareness that holds it all. Everything is - and in this I find myself at last. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

An Inquiry of Grace and Wonder

it's a continuous inquiry - our own mystery won't be resolved, there's no bottom line of existence, no end point of declaration that we may reach to know a search for self is over. It's not about answers. An inquiry is a quest to find ourselves as presence, and as such it's a revelation of identity and location - here too we reside, this moment, the next occurrence to unfold our very own reflection. We are explorers of our own nature, and the mystery is always of how we will appear next. It's a never ending surprise - full of grace and wonder. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Departure

to the point of my departure - and so now the world begins anew, without demands and constant narration. It's a simple story. And still I play a part - yet I am not central in origin or its continuation. It's not my story alone. 

The world is, 

I belong. 

And everything carries on. 

~

Peace,

Eric 

Filled

and this becomes the meditation - first, capacity recognized, and then the 

seamless grace in which we're filled. 

in this seeing we

abide. 

~

Peace,

Eric