Savoring What Is
Saborear Lo Que Es
A gentle invitation to meet discomfort, pain, and longing with curiosity rather than resistance, discovering the freedom already present in each moment.
Savoring What Is
You do not have to close your eyes.
You do not have to leave your eyes open.
Meeting discomfort
Whatever form of discomfort may be happening,
anything you wish to be different,
you can meet that,
relate to it,
savoring,
tasting.
Or you can choose to reject it.
You are absolutely free.
If your body is uncomfortable,
you can savor it,
savor every little discomfort,
touch it,
taste it.
Or you can struggle with it and fight with it, reject it.
Play with that. Notice the differences.
If there's any form of anxiety,
tension,
fear,
pain,
anguish, loneliness,
shame, subtle or non-subtle,
you can savor it, taste it,
or you can reject it.
Relating or rejecting
Nothing needs to change.
Only by fully relating to what is
can we dance with reality.
Freedom from the need to get somewhere,
to become something.
Freedom to choose:
to relate or to reject.
Relating with discomfort,
fear, pain, and shame
requires the taste of being human.
Always savoring, this choice brings openness,
depth,
intimacy,
peace.
To reject what is,
to decide that something that is should not be,
this choice brings struggle,
inner division,
suffering.
Always free to choose. Reality, every moment,
is exactly what it is.
The deepest longing
The deepest longing is intimacy with reality.
We confuse what is important.
We look for fulfillment where there is none.
We look for fulfillment in what comes and goes,
and we overlook that which is always here.
That which is always here,
at first, is scary,
simple,
empty,
boring,
lonely,
painful.
That which comes and goes
distracts us,
entertains us,
soothes us.
The timeless
We long for the eternal.
A timeless, invisible presence,
to know what we are
as the unknowable mystery,
this, right now, right here, always.
It is the substance from which everything else comes.
It is the source.
It is what you already are and what you already know.
Completely free,
absolutely unknowable.
By making it known,
by understanding it
(which we are free to do, to try),
we contract.
We close our hearts.
And we begin a struggle,
a friction with the universe.
Absolutely free to postpone our freedom.
Absolutely free to delay our peace.
Freedom and illusion
We can only give away our freedom with illusion.
Freedom to what we are is like wetness to an ocean.
We are already in an unbreakable relationship with reality.
Already there is timeless being,
empty fullness.
It is not hidden.
It does not require achieving.
It is not earned.
There is no merit.
We either decide to relate with reality, or we don't.
We either decide to know what we are, or we don't.
Or we think about it.
All is welcome.
Choosing reality
To choose reality is, for example,
to savor what is, fully intimate.
It is, for example,
to see there is no time outside of thought.
It is, for example,
to see no boundary
where I end and something else begins.
It is to see, for example,
I can't know what I am outside of thoughts.
It is to see, for example,
that thoughts are at best just maps.
It is to see, for example,
the presence that is called "I"
cannot be known by thought.
It is to see, for example,
the beauty of creation,
the heart-opening awe of life.