and you follow along just as before. your appearance could never be anything other than perfect. this isn’t a movement towards the perfectly behaved human. it is just the freedom to be the natural. that which is. that which isn’t just an empty story on top of what is. you are chasing its end why? because you think you need to, to be fully there. what do you think getting there will give you? you don’t know. nor can you know. following others words to find that which you already are. trust yourself. trust what appears. you can read others words. verify what is only already there. but don’t get lost to the words and invalidate what appears here hanging on to words on what it does or doesn’t look like. chasing empty wind. you are the wind already.
this is known.
stop doubting yourself.
trust what already is.
and come back to life. the life that only ever is.
leave the mind behind.
let it be as it is.
a beautiful inspiration.
not a place to live.
play in it.
and appropriately set it aside.
let it be free. to be as it is.
without blaming it. or guilting it. for what it is.
trust in it.
it’s play.
it has led you to beautiful things.
why make it into an enemy.
when it is only what is.
is mind the enemy? only when believed to be me? when freed. allowed to be. a mind being a mind. that’s all it only ever is.
minding its business
the story that it has to… is just a story. an empty mind minding.
just minding its business.
minding is the minds business.
nothing other than that.
it’s not ‘your’ business; to personalize it is to try to claim its naturalness.
inserting a you into it thinking, when thought happens without any you in it.
you are the all.
nothing at all!
let it outpour. let it all out. all thoughts to what is. or isn’t. it’s ok. it’s ok that you’re still figuring it out. it’s ok that it continues to outpour it is just the beauty too of all. nothing is wrong. and so you think something is wrong that whatever arising shouldn’t be or is wrong. but who knows that to be so? what is arising is the perfect love. expression of this. putting to words what appears without the attachment to it. free flow. isn’t that the beauty? to let flow. to not be attached to the words.
and that is it. finite.
“complete understanding of awakening: the knowing that there is no one here to understand or awaken or know. there is only the peace that passes understanding. the breath of Presence blowing through this hollow stick.
and the music thus made, which appears as the everyday thoughts and words and actions of ‘you’ and ‘others’ is nothing other than Presence playing through these instruments, and truly is the ultimate gift, beyond beauty.”
- david carse