Something Happening
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A gentle invitation to pause from focusing on experiences and turn your attention toward the alive, intimate sense of experiencing itself.
Something Happening
Just notice the very basic and overlooked sense
of experiencing, that there is something happening.
The sensations in the body,
the breath reminds us of that.
Skin creating moving clouds of tingling sensations.
There are sounds, images, and thoughts.
These aren't separate things.
It's one field of experiencing.
Turning toward that which experiences
What we're looking for here is a turning of our attention and our curiosity,
our energy, our interest,
towards the subtleties of that which is experiencing.
To choose a pause or a break
from the focus on what is experienced.
Usually we are focused on what seems to be the only real thing,
that which is experienced,
what seems to be the only thing that matters,
that which is experienced.
And so we look towards something that's difficult to look at,
difficult in many ways,
as it is not the experience.
It is not visible.
It seems empty, unimportant.
The assumption of knowing what we are
And we assume that we know what is looking.
We assume that we know what we are.
We are this person, this body.
It is an absolutely convincing assumption.
So it all begins with a question.
What if?
What if we are not what we appear to be?
So we look at that sense of me,
that sense of I,
and notice what it is made of.
You will find thoughts, memories, sensations.
Welcoming resistance
If you notice discomfort,
recognize all forms of resistance:
boredom, agitation, restlessness,
frustration, tensions.
Keep noticing all of that is known.
And consider, what if none of it has to change.
What we're looking for doesn't need boredom to stop
or frustration to end.
It's a very subtle looking.
No effort is needed.
An infinite buffet
All thoughts, all sensations,
sounds, images.
Everything happening right now can be savored.
An infinite buffet of sensations, thoughts, feelings.
All is welcome,
all is alive.
Always exquisitely intimate.
Something missing
And we find beauty in experiencing itself,
beingness itself.
We feel something missing.
We look for it in experiences.
And yet something remains missing.
It's not in experiences.
It's in this, but it's in everything,
and it's nowhere.
It's a beingness, an aliveness.
We are called to this, we long for this,
and part of us resists.
That is the dance.
Our mind cannot grasp this, understand this.
The mind is made of this.