Entries in serenity (8)
What enables you to see nothing?
Notice how you are conditioned to accumulate experience, labels, or words to add after your name to describe yourself. As someone asks you who you are, what you do or, why you are here, notice how you respond and how you feel. Does the voice of ego or heart respond? Feel confident or hesitate. Feel impatience for new credentials or, serenity of pure being. Notice what enables you to see nothing, to watch identity fall away.
Notice how losing what you percieve to be important at certain stages of life actually offers valuable lessons about what truly is. What you appear to be losing is never what you think it is. Beyond your conditioning, the nature of clarity reveals itself. Inner experience confirms nothing is happening here. True completeness is unchanged.
In essence, everything that could possibly happen is happening. Your focus of attention shapes what you see and experience. If you say you can or cannot, you are right. Notice all perceived troubles disappear in silence. What is present is never threatened.
Be fully present
As you look deeply, you know what you experience without concepts or beliefs. The aliveness you feel within is no different from the beingness of everything. Sense changes in relationship with surroundings. Realize you can feel things without the conditioned judgments of mind. Rediscover the gifts of the soul.
Merge into bliss
As one stops looking for what appears to be missing, one merges into what already is. In essence, to slow down and turn inward enables you to notice a serenity and understanding that grounds you where you are. How does perspective shift to sense that regardless of what is happening around you, within all is well? From the moment nothing bothers you, all that is irrelevant falls away.
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there are only walls."- Joseph Campbell
Give yourself permission to go
You know the core directions. Yet, sometimes you lose your sense of direction. Mind convinces you that you are doing just fine even when in truth, you feel disoriented. Ever choose a direction because it feels upwards or downwards? or other people people are choosing it? or it enables you to feel challenged?
Notice what brings you out of darkness, out of the mist. Remember to trust deeper states of being. What if you choose the path that enables you to feel more serenity, harmony and freedom? Each moment you liberate self from the past, from pain, you align with inner joy, recall stillness. You allow self to be there. You find all you seek in the heart. You feel it. Being gentle and compassionate overcomes inner resistance. Meditate not to get things but to remember how to let things go. You feel healthy and free.