Already Here
Ya Aquí
A gentle invitation to notice that what you are searching for is not somewhere else but already present, right here.
Already Here
It is said, and I say as well, that
what this is all about is very simple.
It is so simple,
we oversee it, we overlook it,
we misunderstand it or misinterpret.
What we are looking for in the deepest sense
is already here.
The desiring of something that is somewhere else, in a different place, in a different time,
is an illusion,
is this misunderstanding.
Searching in thought versus searching in reality
It is the difference between searching for what is real
versus searching for what only exists in thoughts.
Tomorrow only exists in thought.
Satisfaction, peace, well-being only exists here.
Here is timeless.
Everything that ever happens, happens here,
including all memories of past and all imaginations of future.
Wherever we go it is here,
always this.
In the mind there are other places, other times, other conditions.
In reality it is always this,
and the nature of this is movement and rest.
Sensations moving.
Perceptions changing, moving.
Thoughts changing, moving.
Everything moving,
and the knowing of everything, at rest.
The knowing
When we say "I,"
we point to this knowingness,
that which knows.
Within this knowingness there is experience:
thoughts, sensations, sounds, images,
time in thought.
There will be discomfort as sensations.
There will be emotions:
frustration, desire, pain, fear, joy.
All of that coming and going,
absolutely impermanent.
But for the knowing,
it remains the same.
It accepts all.
The knowingness accepts everything.
In the body and in the mind there is effort, there is rest,
there is expansion, there is contraction.
But for that which knows,
it remains unaffected.
Thoughts and the one who knows them
You may notice thoughts in their dialogue and commentary on what is happening,
and it might seem that that is you,
you thinking, you commenting.
But what is it that knows the thoughts?
The knowing of the dialogue,
the knowing of sensations.
Are you the character in the imagination thinking,
or are you the character in the inner dialogue,
or that which knows it,
that which sees it?
The more you believe yourself to be the character in thought,
the more there will be distress, striving, searching.
The more you recognize you are not that,
you will know flow, effortlessness, well-being.
Sinking in
Let yourself sink into this knowingness.
It is nowhere.
It is nothing.
It is empty,
and it is always here, always this.
Never lost.
Never found,
just recognized to be true.
It has no shape,
it has no form,
it has no colours,
no sounds, no smell,
yet it welcomes all.
Never leaves, never comes, always here.
It's here.
When you're lost in thought, it is here.
When you're asleep, it is here.
When you are dreaming, it is here.
Take all these words as suggestions
and find out for yourself.
Make this your exploration,
your question.