Welcome to this space.
This is going to be a short opportunity for us to check in with the present moment and recognize that we are not here to find anything.
Maybe more accurately,
We're here to explore.
We're here to paint.
We're here to create.
Let's settle into this moment.
Let's take three deep breaths and just invite ourselves into presence.
We can acknowledge the adorable difficulty in seeking,
Seeking,
And seeking.
Looking to find something,
Looking to hold on to something,
And even looking to avoid something.
This fundamental assumption that there's somewhere to get to other than right now.
Can we be open to the possibility that life is about this moment?
That the prize is already here?
All we have to do is look at our past experience.
In everything we chased after,
We find ourselves right back here.
In the vast emptiness of this moment,
Maybe we have completely exhausted ourselves,
Trying to hold on to something that's not ours to hold on to.
But I just invite us into this moment and maybe see that even though you weren't able to capture this,
That,
Or the other,
Still right now,
Here you are.
Beyond all the mind stories,
Beyond all the ideas,
Assumptions,
And beliefs,
What you are is whole and complete.
It's only a thought of something missing.
And beyond that idea,
Here you are,
As you've always been.
There's the fundamental misunderstanding that assumes you're in this life to get something.
Can you also see that this assumption says you're missing something?
And I wonder if you can see just how untrue that is,
That it's just another thought.
The only thing that's missing is an idea about something missing.
And we get captured by these ideas.
Yet right now,
Right here in the immediacy of this moment,
What you are is alive.
There is a breath that's given.
And the reality of what you are is extraordinarily supported by all of life.
In this space is a wellness.
In this space is a life that holds you in the totality of what you are.
This life even holds space for you to have whatever dream you dream.
To think,
Believe,
Imagine.
Whatever it is you think,
Believe,
Or imagine.
It's all allowed.
It's all held.
You're so free that you are free enough to imagine yourself as not being free.
You're free.
You're free to see yourself as less than.
You're free to see yourself as missing something.
You're free to paint whatever picture you paint.
This space is a blank canvas.
Can you step outside the narrative of who you think you are and drop more deeply into the reality of what you are?
Notably seeing that you are not all of these stories.
You are not these ideas.
And everything the mind is thinking,
It's not really happening.
Let's take a moment and breathe into that space.
Let's take three deep breaths.
Just breathe.
You see my friend,
Understandably and compassionately,
We get lost in our own dream.
We get lost in what we think is happening,
What we think we're missing.
And that's fine.
But there is an opportunity to see that none of that's actually happening.
There's an opportunity to see how empty this landscape really is.
It's almost like seeing that there's nothing to get.
There's nothing to acquire.
We could even go so far as saying there's nothing for you to fix.
It can be said that the only thing that's wrong with you is that you think there's something wrong with you.
And when you think there's something wrong with you,
Playfully again,
You start acting in wrong ways.
Let's recognize the innocence in all of this.
Let's come home to the emptiness.
Maybe we can just start over.
Maybe we can start painting a new picture.
Maybe we can recognize that we're not here to get something because we're not missing anything.
But rather,
We are here to discover something beautiful on the inside of what we are.
And then we can share that beauty with the world.
We recognize that we are here to share something,
Which implies you have an abundance of it.
For me,
This is profoundly more true.
I'm not missing anything.
I just wasn't seeing myself clearly.
And that's fine,
As it presents an opportunity to enjoy the miracle of seeing myself more clearly,
Which helps me to see other people more clearly and see life more clearly.
All right,
Go play.
Thanks for meditating with me today.
