Whoever makes all cares into a single care,
The care for simply being present,
Will be relieved from all cares by that presence,
Which is a reflection of spirit.
So let's just settle in to this gorgeous invitation from Kabir Helminski to make all of our cares into a single care.
There are so many cares we have these days.
Good cares.
Appropriate cares.
Cares that need attention.
But what if we change up our usual approach to taking care of all these cares?
What if starting right now we make all of the cares into one care,
And our intention is to simply be present,
Open,
Awake.
Feel in this moment that you're already awake,
Already aware.
You're present.
And this presence tends to be muted,
Covered over by surface level cares,
Like the sun being hid behind a thick sheet of clouds.
And yet just because the sun disappears behind a sheet of clouds doesn't mean the sun is ever not beaming,
Ever not fully present.
Let your focus on cares and concerns and thoughts and feelings and all the content of awareness just relax for a moment,
Falling back behind the display,
Falling back within yourself.
Just bringing awareness to awareness itself.
Awareness to presence.
Light responding to light.
And just breathe.
Feel the softness,
The wakefulness of the body.
Feel the way that subtle feelings,
Sensations float through awareness,
Thought forms,
Sights,
Sounds,
All the content of human life coming and going through awareness in this moment.
And just trust that you don't have to manage the complexity of life,
The complexity of mind,
Of world.
Rest in this moment as intelligence,
As presence itself.
And if something needs to be taken care of in this very moment,
Then you will take care of it.
As presence you will know to take care of it.
And in this moment,
Sitting as aware presence,
Perhaps your experience is that there is nothing pressing to care for in this moment but presence itself.
And so you take the one seat,
So to speak.
You just relax in this feeling of being,
Energizing presence through the activity of presence.
There's nothing to do but be presence.
From the point of view of the personality there's always more to do,
Always more to think about,
A reason to strive,
A reason to struggle.
But as presence you will notice that there are periods of time where the most appropriate action in the world is non-action.
And the most appropriate effort in the next moment is an effortless effort.
You simply do what needs to be done.
And in the words of the Tao,
Because nothing is done,
Nothing is left undone.
Moment to moment,
From presence to presence.
You take care of all the cares in the world.
What's asking to be done in this moment as presence?
How are you called to be present?
And I love to do such a hundred fine things.
