Birds are singing outside my office window as I type these words… heralding the changing of the seasons… Spring is sputteringly popping into our Life once again here in
Lucia, my feline companion for more than twelve years, is stretched out on the desk tapping a rhythm of Life on the keyboard… and within moments she quickly falls into a deep sleep… amazing how they do that…. Seems animals are simply able to let go and release into complete relaxation…
Of course both birds and cats are reminders to me … along with trees and rocks and all sorts of forms of Life… just how content they are in their beingness… As far as I can tell, they are not caught up in any existential crisis of identity and wondering what they will be doing tomorrow… We humans are a bit different… often lost in the insanity of mental gymnastics that passes for ordinary consciousness… replaying yesterdays and fantasizing tomorrows… Life may be simpler than we make it…
What if … for at least a day… we would lose our memory of all the cultural and tribal teachings we have received along the path to the present? What if we were to let go of all past memories? What if we would have no symbols to write or communicate? …just for a day… What if we forget the labels that have been assigned to us…such as a name… a job title… nicknames… roles? What if we would forget all names and labels that have been given to all the forms we see? What if we would have no thought of tomorrow or yesterday?
The constant naming, categorizing, defining of our world goes on and in some important ways helps us to accomplish practical and amazing tasks. And it can also remove us from the essential energy and quality of Real Life around us at all times.
We can find ourselves lost in a made up dream world that we think we understand and can control and manipulate… when in reality we are separate and lost in our thought-forms…in our mindsets…our beliefs…. Swinging from thought to thought in the jungles of our heady illusions…
What if we would be….just be… being Being in this present moment…. at one with the Life energy that is running through us… that is breathing us… the Life energy that beats our heart… the animating Source energy of all that is…
What if we were born again into this present moment of pure Awareness… aware only of our awareness… without thought-forms that scatter themselves on the page or screen… just reawakened into the Life Energy that abounds beyond, beneath, around, and through all symbols and forms…
Perhaps we can pause and find
space
in the endless-racing-of-thoughts to appreciate…….
the s i l e n t
spacious
peace
of
Life
Of Being….
Finding again…
In this moment…
The Peace
that leaves behind our attempts to understand…
Suggestion:
Take another 30-60 seconds to
simply be aware of being aware
Best wishes on your day's journey,
John Hutchinson
[AKA H'tuchi]
And the beat goes on....You're invited to respond, comment, and submit questions... which may be the topic of an emerging rhythm, rhyme, or ramble...
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