Accepted in The Very Moment of it's Appearance

here's the thing - acceptance is not a personalized verb. It's not something we purposely do, at least not in the sense of how life works without our interference. Everything, in every circumstance and situation, is accepted in the very moment of it's appearance. It's simply what we do, or better still, it's what we are - open to whatever life brings. We don't have to like it, we can work for things to be otherwise, or wish for things to change - and all this too is immediately brought within our calm acceptance. It's instant. We are an allowing space, our nature is to be open to every conceivable expression of life, and in this there is no separation between event or object and our spaciousness. It's here where we find peace, knowing that it all occurs on it's own, no one actively choosing to accept or deny, just this constant welcome to it all, no effort to be anything other than what we are now, and always - life, in perfect expression of itself in every moment. 

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Peace,

Eric 

For The Appearance of The World to Be

that the world is, and that it's held within view - hints at the endlessness of our capacity. One more thing is always included, mountains to distant stars all fit neatly by sight, and no person is denied the space we offer. We are a wonder in both empty wish for fulfillment and in the rush of gifts that come to find our view. It's a seamless trade of one thing giving way it's formless nature - for the appearance of the world to be.

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Peace,

Eric 

It's Love

we could call it love, this unconditional welcome of what is, right now, occurring - the word itself is not important, nor is our disagreement otherwise. It's all accepted at once, the immediacy of what appears and it's instance embrace is the very nature of our presence. One thing in calm acceptance of it's every appearance. So who is to argue against this? Even our best argument is already part of this belonging, and more, so is the one who argues. This, than, is love. 

It's the simplicity of what is, 

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Peace,

Eric 

Our Only Lesson

sometimes, it seems that we get lost in the description, or an explanation leads farther from the actual experience of what is - yet reality, now, and right here, is as simple as one drawn breath and then a letting go. That's life in full happening, nothing added, no specialness or promise of something more - just one breath, and we find that even this happens on it's own, without conscious will needed for life to be. Breathing is. So this is our meditation, our only lesson needed, we are not separate from breath, no effort necessary, and life happens on it's own. 

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Peace,

Eric 

Mote To Breeze

and even our surrender is a story told, symbolic, as if a dust mote declaring its intentions to the breeze - we too are aimless in the greater circumstance of life, our plans laid aside by sweeping winds of change and grace. This truth is revealed by our demands, desires, and prayers for life in simple plans, our wish for things to play out in least amount of fear and increased comfort. Yet life always brings the full range of what it offers, nothing excluded, and our true and only power comes in this acceptance. We are already surrendered, having never gained control, our role now is to allow, allow, allow, and see ourselves as not mere motes within life's storm, but the breeze as well in full experience as mote and storm. It's all one thing, reality, expressed as every possibility - our life, and all that happens, belongs in this as well. 

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Peace,

Eric 

That Meets Our View and Step Through Distance

it's not lost, there's no source that isn't available through each moment and every direction of our view. We often feel a disconnect, as if we gained an understanding of our place within the world to only lose it once again in times of struggle and feeling distant from ourselves and others. Yet there is no true source that isn't now, our rebirth of innocence provided by the grace of seeing - it's here, this moment, that we realize we are the one and only originators of the world, an empty source becoming full through the space we offer. Looking back to the origin of our view, the source, we only find the world again, going forth from here, it all continues in an endless spread of our existence. Nothing is found separate from this, it's impossible to wander from a source that meets our view and step through distance. 

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Peace,

Eric 

In Benefit of Holding All The World

it's not guessing, my own existence is not questioned, and what's explored is the nature of this existence, from my own aware understanding and by extension the world. I find myself drawn now to an easy, natural inquiry of simply seeing no drawn line of separation between myself and others, from my view to what arrives fully formed in presentation, there's no effort to discover anything that is not already fully and always present - that I am aware, and that the world appears comes to my attention in an obvious fashion. I am simply left to wonder at it all, a quiet fascination of my own expansion as the view continues to offer itself in benefit of holding all the world. 

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Peace,

Eric