Enlightenment, awakening, recognition, realisation, whatever, is not an answer, has no answers because it precedes all questions making the very notion of question/ answer redundant.
Myriad holograms of meaning come and go, arise and fade away over and over and over and yet the ungraspable openness in which this occurs is always present.
The illusion of a spiritual journey is just more hinderance, more occlusion of the infinite ground which is always right here, right now.
‘Symbols and conventions can be used for awareness rather than for developing worldly attitudes to becoming some kind of Buddhist.’ Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Symbols and Conventions can be.
With complete recognition of open awareness the need for the crutches of meaning, purpose and identification evaporate.
In spite of the famous phrase: ‘There must be more to life than this’, there is actually no more to life than this. There is no more aliveness to be had anywhere but right here, right now.
Things to be interested in come and go but the raw unmediated actuality of the present moment is always right here and can be of the greatest perpetual interest.
Whenever we look, whatever we witness is simply what is here now and that is always everything and more than enough to be with, to work with to leave exactly as it is.
Words and images, words and images, so many, seemingly endless words and images describing and depicting just more words and images; all obscuring the original source…