Hello dear friends,
Today's mini-awakening practice inspired partly by Adyashanti,
Somewhat by Eckhart Tolle,
Is about the rediscovery of innocence.
The paradox here is that the ungraspable ground of being is attained by non-attainment,
By letting go.
Nothing is added to us,
Rather we awaken to our already present source.
This source is not apart from anything,
And yet it is completely detached.
As we connect to this ground of being,
What we discover is our original innocence,
Where in every moment feels like a new creation,
Like something that has never been before.
Our ground of being is a timeless state.
It's a dimension where the mind is emptied of content and renewed moment to moment.
Such a mind dwells in innocence,
Where the present is not filtered and interpreted through the past.
The vast collection of human knowledge,
Of our memory,
Is available if needed,
But it is no longer a wall between you and what is as it really is.
And so the ground of being is where each moment is experienced directly,
With no distorting lens of past conditioning and no sense of time.
It is a timeless state of only the eternal now,
The ground of being seized through the eyes of eternity and feels through the constant renewal of the senses.
Each moment is as a birth moment,
With all its innocence and wonder.
So take a moment now to feel into the silence of the lower belly,
The silence that is prior to yet all around the mind.
Notice that silence is the presence of absence.
Although there may be thoughts passing through,
The great silence itself is an absence of thought.
Although there may be feelings and sensations,
The great silence itself is the absence of feeling and sensation.
Although there may be sounds,
The great silence is itself an absence of sounds.
Notice that this absence,
This emptiness,
Is full of presence,
Full of wonder and awe.
And so let yourself intuitively sense the alive presence of this absence.
Don't be afraid,
Because this great absence is itself infinite potentiality.
It's the true source of all.
And so invite yourself to rest in this great womb of unknowingness,
Until this unknowingness opens its eyes within you and as you.
Notice that in your ground of being,
You are the shining presence of this absence.
Absence of self,
Absence of other,
Absence of time,
Absence of sorrow,
Absence of anxiety.
Notice that in this great absence,
There is also total presence,
Total timeless freedom of being.
Notice that when you look within yourself,
You find that you are beyond nothingness and somethingness.
You are what the mind can never describe or imagine.
This itself is great liberation,
A return to and rediscovery of innocence.
My dear friend,
Rest in this freedom and ease.
Be well,
My friend.
