The Emptiness That Is Full
El Vacío Que Está Lleno
An invitation to notice what is already awake and whole at the center of your experience, without needing to change anything at all.
The Emptiness That Is Full
The word "I" points to it,
the word "reality,"
consciousness,
love,
freedom,
all pointing to our true nature.
The center of experience
It is that which feels like it is at the center of something,
at the core of what is experiencing right now,
even if there is contraction,
even if there is identification.
Thoughts,
stories,
struggles,
none of that touches it.
What is awake is always awake.
This recognition is possible now, no time.
No process,
no preparation,
no integration.
It is the emptiness that is full of experience.
The emptiness of divinity experiencing its creation,
pretending to have a center, pretending to be separate.
Where is the center?
Where is the center?
Where is this "I"?
You will find thoughts,
concepts.
Thoughts do not need to stop.
Discomfort does not need to stop.
Trust this more than anything.
Nothing needs to change.
It is already given.
Nature cannot be earned.
Only destruction can be achieved.
The beauty of forgetting
There's beauty in forgetting this.
We choose to forget this.
We come to forget this.
We love to forget this.
In fact, a lot of our struggle is when we begin to remember.
The part of us still holding on to the forgetting.
The forgetting is also bliss.
Remembering brings the conscious suffering.
It's happening now.
Reactivity,
depression,
frustration,
fear.
What is noticing?
When you notice all that, it is fully awake,
fully free right now.
Your thoughts, what is noticing them?
Discomfort, what is noticing it?
Whatever is happening, what is noticing that?
The answer comes as a sensation:
I, me, this here,
this that I am, this sensation,
this thought.
What is noticing that?
What is noticing isn't anywhere.
It's empty.
No form, no place.
Empty. Sensations come and go. Thoughts come and go.
The known construct of "I" with its sensations and thoughts comes and goes.
And that emptiness. Experience comes every morning, then it goes.
What remains?
It cannot be formed and located.
All experience stays in this emptiness,
soaked in its aliveness,
dancing in its energy.
Illusion and wakefulness are the same.
What we are is not of the realm of life and death.
Noticing everything that appears
Notice time,
notice thoughts,
notice this world, your body, sensations,
emotions.
Your past, known as memories.
Future worries, hopes, dreams, known as thoughts.
But all of that appears to something.
What is that?
Sink into that,
feel spacious,
empty,
vast.
It is never gone.
When there is a thought or a sensation, you are there.
When there is illusion, you are there.
Never gone.
You are never gone.
What do you love?
What do you love?
What do you love now?
A direct experience.
Approach this as a discovery
instead of a process of choice.
Let yourself discover.
What do you love right now, of what is happening right now?
Is there beauty in breathing?
Is there beauty in thinking?
Is there beauty in sensing the body?
Tingling sensations in the hands and feet, or skin.
Is there beauty in the sense of seeing, seeing itself?
The miracle of sight,
the miracle and the immersiveness of sound,
sound itself,
no matter what sound.
Is there any beauty there right now?
Is there beauty in having memories?
Is there beauty in emotions?
What if we love everything that is happening?
Why would we have to let go in order to discover that?
What could we be holding on to in order to veil that beauty, that love of everything?
Looking
Where is the beauty?
What do you love?
Notice the temptation to choose and reject.
Be open to discovering the love of everything,
life itself,
beingness.
The pristine and clear and awake,
fully awake,
undeniably awake.