By and large,
The consensus human view is that we exist as separate individuals,
Biopsychosocial spiritual organisms encased in these physical bodies that are clearly distinguishable from the outer environments in which they appear to reside.
Put another way,
Our tendency is to perceive ourselves as separate subjects navigating a world of objects.
We believe that these bounded creatures we see ourselves as are somehow cut off and effectively separate from the rest of existence.
But maybe it only appears that way.
Let's explore this,
Explore our own existence,
And see if we can find a clear point where what we think of as ourselves ends and the world outside of us begins.
Notice that you're here,
That you're alive.
Let yourself feel this simple fact,
The undeniable presence of your own existence,
The simple feeling of being.
Notice that no effort is required for this to be so.
No strategies,
No techniques,
No manipulations required to create the sense of aliveness.
It's naturally present.
Existence streaming forth spontaneously,
Generating and sustaining itself moment by moment.
Now as you feel the presence of this field of being,
Let yourself venture out to the farthest edges of it.
Can you find anything there?
Any point where the field of being comes to an end?
Can you locate a line separating the field from anything else?
Or is there just an edgeless continuum of being without border or boundary?
Notice that no matter what might be occurring within this boundary-less field,
Being remains as it is,
Unalterably alive and present.
Feel the way in which the field of being is not circumstance dependent.
A thousand different thoughts,
Feelings,
And sensations can appear and disappear,
And all the while the field remains.
Being continues to be.
Existence continues to exist,
No matter the shape or form it may take.
Feel the ease,
The fullness,
The rich lusciousness of being.
While we may imagine ourselves to be these isolated creatures,
Vulnerable subjects in a world of objects and circumstances,
See that experientially this is not the case.
Feel the way in which the field of being,
The field of experience itself,
Is actually seamless.
An indivisible,
All-inclusive expanse,
An edgeless space of invulnerability that nothing can harm,
For there is nothing apart from it.
Here you are,
Sitting here,
And yet there is no finality to you,
No point where beingness ceases to be,
No place where the edge of you comes to an end.
Feel this.
Revel in the vast luscious infinity that you are.
