Life’s perfect timing

I am letting go of all that I once thought I could never let go of and yet, when I look at what is occurring, I see it is a natural movement. I see that so many of us want to let go, to accept and to be, and yet, because it is the illusory character wishing to do this, there comes with it an impatience and resistance. Impatience as we want everything on our timing and resistance because when inevitably we go against our natural way of being, there is resistance.

What then to do? Firstly, recognise that everything is perfect as it is right now even if it appears that it is not. Realise, too, that letting go or acceptance happens, not from the viewpoint of the story, but from our natural way of being and, as such, it occurs as and how it needs to. Life’s timing is perfect; our resistance to it comes from impatience which stems from a mind that, like a petulant child, wants everything now, now, now. If, however, we can recognise that life acts as and how and with the upmost efficiency, we can see that it’s “timing” is perfect and that if we trust that life takes care, then everything occurs as and how needed. Things simply flow and happen with the upmost efficiency and ease. All that is needed is a trusting and sensitivity to the moment. This perfect moment that you truly are and in which everything is happening as and how it is needed.

Have you ever been present?

Have you ever been present? Simply sitting without intention, thought, or need for any outcome. To rest as you are with no one to witness this resting. Realising that this attaining or wanting enlightenment is a desire that can never be fulfilled. Realising that there is no one to even enlighten. That in the so-called moment of annihilation, nothing has occurred to no one or no-thing. That any attempt to even speak or point to this is the epitome of futility and yet, the paradox is that speaking and pointing will keep happening; all pointers and practices are ultimately redundant, although, they play a part in helping no one to realise the redundancy of the search.

That we can look at this topic from as many different angles we wish. From the Sufi who whirls to the Monk sitting silently in meditation. Each expression is valid and yet, completely worthless and there is no one who can lay claim to this truth, so that even the hierarchy that exists cannot exist here.

That ultimately this is what everyone seeks whether meditating, accumulating wealth, in relationships or at the bottom of a bottle. All want that moment to themselves to claim - to covet -and to say they know, and, yet we already know. Covered as this knowing may be with conditioning, belief, upbringing, or education.

In this not knowing, we all know and, as such, pointers exist to point back to the very answer you seek.

You!

Claude Monet ~ The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil

The Rise of the Machines

The rise of AI can be seen as nothing more than the illusion believing itself to be real and creating life like the source it emanates from. Similar to a dream within a dream, AI allows the dreamer to reinforce separation and the belief that the dream is real by saying, “look, surely something temporal couldn’t create something and as it has, then it must be real.” Nothing is further from the truth. Like the Icarus effect, we are flying too close to the sun. Not realising that we are designed to overreach and in that falling from grace, we may see who we truly are. What, then, does the turbulence of this age, from the rise of AI to conflict around the world, offer us? Simply this. An opportunity to know who we truly are.

An Eternal Embrace

I am finally where I want to be. Sitting here sipping a mint tea feels divine. There is a gentle breeze and I feel happy and relaxed after the turbulent year I have had. How life has had its many ebbs and flows but I am here now. I feel grateful; grateful to be here and grateful to God. A thought arises, why don’t more choose to accept who they truly are and life as is? Carried gently by the beloved; forever in the most beautiful of embraces. I wonder why so many resist a life of ease and want to fight the answer that presents itself in the mirror. Surely you can accept it is you that you seek? That you are the object of your adoration and that wherever you turn, you see the face of your beloved and this beloved that carries you, is you. That when the veils fall and reality is seen, it is seen that it is this. Simply this.

An eternal kiss.

An eternal embrace.

An eternal love.

Image of the Kiswah (Ghilaf E Kaaba)

The Kiswah (or Kiswa) is the large, black, silk and cotton cloth that covers the Kaaba, the sacred stone building at the centre of the Great Mosque in Makkah (Mecca).

Move Fast and Break Things.

In the silence, there is insight, clarity and understanding. In the silence, too, is an opportunity to face yourself, and yet we find that so many will not take that opportunity. We have been conditioned to rush, rush, rush, as Mark Zuckerberg once stated,

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“Move fast and break things.”

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Why, then, would we want to see or even acknowledge the trail of destruction we have created in our wake? Maybe this is why society is suffering from record highs in mental health issues.  In keeping with that, our solution, then, is to medicate, to avoid, terrified as we are to stop. Is stopping that terrifying? We then find that we pay lip service to stopping by speaking of wellness, the retreats in Bali, the spa days and the mental health days.

But, does this really solve anything? Or is this us simply papering over the cracks, rather than getting to the root cause of why we feel so alone, so disenfranchised and so lost? Yet, if we were to embrace the silence fully, to sit with the uncomfortable, to take our time, and to slowly but surely start shining a light at the dark recesses of our mind, we may find great freedom in silence. This freedom that would be found would be transformative, and yet familiar.

Why familiar? Because we recognise it as our own being. That this is our natural way of being; that we can live from this space and make all decisions from this place of silence and ease. That the illusory nature of time would become apparent to us and we wouldn’t feel the need to keep rushing. That the trusting of this, of our natural way of being, would mean that even more treasures would open up in this silence. To sit and stare, to be aware and then to move from that awareness, would provide us with insight, clarity and understanding on a moment by moment basis.

Although, it would be recognised that there is only this moment and this familiarity with this moment is because I am not separate from it. It is me and I am it. This realisation collapsing duality and a realisation that there is only this. Welcomed home by yourself, for yourself, you realise there is only home and you have always been right here and now.