What Is Always There
Lo que siempre está ahí
A question about how something so fundamental and ever-present can be so easily overlooked, and why it resists being recognized as a "thing."
What Is Always There
A question about how something so fundamental and ever-present can be so easily overlooked, and why it resists being recognized as a "thing."
Being able to verbalize and articulate these things is really helpful. It makes it more real.
That's very gratifying to me, because all of this is meant to help and serve your process.
The availability of what is always present
And it is very, very available. That's the part that is hard to communicate.
Something that's always there.
It is being, and it is present whenever you are experiencing something. It is required for there to be being at all.
Why we overlook it
The problem is that it has become so overlooked, precisely because it is always there, that you cannot recognize it. You only recognize things by contrast, when something comes and goes. We become so focused on what comes and goes as a "thing." I see my hand, then I don't see my hand. I look at a tree, then I don't look at a tree. It becomes a thing I can see, a thing I can know, a thing I can locate. When I don't see it, I can remember it. But what we are pointing to here is so essential that there is no way to contrast it with anything, no way to set it apart so that you can recognize it, because it is not a thing.