Good morning! Welcome to the DKos Sangha weekly open thread.
This is an open thread for members of the DKos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no particular tradition. While the language we use may differ depending on the traditions, teachers, practices, and teachings that have shaped our journeys, we find in common, generally, a search for who we truly are, our true nature, and to bring the peace and compassion born of that search into the greater world of which we are a part. If you wish to share, or if you seek support, or if you simply want to say hello, please do; this space is for you.
Ordinary, and extraordinary. Subtle, yet profound. The profane as sacred.
There is nothing other than, nothing separate and apart from, the oneness of being. All that is perceived arises within awareness; all that is perceived is consciousness; it is movement/energy/vibration within the stillness; it is the manifestation of the one universe as the multiplicity of things.
When the walls of separation fall, this very moment is your direct experience; and nothing is perceived to be other than just this. It is all arising together in this moment.
When egoic separate self has fallen away, when there is no longer identification with a “me” that thinks itself separate from everything else around it, a “me” that is constantly creating a story about itself, and stories about the “others” from which it holds at a distance, a “me” that seems to always find something with which to be dissatisfied, uncomfortable, upset, distressed, angry, when this belief in, and identification with, a collection of thought patterns calling itself “me” has fallen away, then there is …
… freedom.
There is something of a lightness of being. One’s experience of the world is no longer filtered through a narrative. The energy required to maintain the narrative, the stories, the drama, is no longer needed. There is just the direct experience of this present moment. There is just presence. Just the natural state of being human; of being this that is.
There are still problems to solve, tasks to accomplish, work to be done. But mind, unfettered by the overlaid narrative of “me”, is freed to work more efficiently, more attentively, more naturally.
Instead of struggling against, there is working with. Instead of pushing back, there is acceptance of what is. Instead of internal conflict, there is internal peace.
It is an extraordinarily different way of being in the world, yet ordinary; dishes to wash, dinner to cook, coffee to make. Each day naturally unfolding, moment to moment, always new; yet always within the same stillness of being.
The difference can be quite subtle, there is still dishwashing; yet profound, as there is no longer any “me” that is washing dishes.
And all that used to seem profane is now sacred; everything perceived is experienced within and as this sacred space of stillness.
Notice the narrative, and gently, compassionately, let go.
Notice the space within which thoughts arise, within which sounds arise, within which the breath arises, within which all perceived phenomena arise, …
… and rest here. Abide here.
Just naturally being present;
Moment to moment,
Day to day.
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Namaste