Looking up at the night's sky, its spaciousness and opennes is pervaded by a sentience that is anonymous and is rooted in each of our hearts. This blessed one opens and animates all of my night's sky. The sacred silence redeems us from the errors of attachment and aversion that the mind gives rise to throughout our days and nights. To be relieved of the suffering that attends clinging our hearts offer the silence that forgives even the most grievous of actions. The movement of time attends all and is the all. There is no time without our past, present, and future. The present, always as the present, is a necessary condition for redemption. The attendance of quiet and peace are themselves forgiveness. Tranquility and peace are possible only in the living present. When else could they be? Watch for them to breathe and bring redemption.

  

If...

If you are not hanging by a thread,

Perhaps meditation will help.

 

The tenderness of the heart is extremely vulnerable. How far are you willing to go into vulnerability? Any defense will gradually become a fortress and hide you from you, the innermost, impersonal you that feels some of the deepest human suffering. Our suffering is so important. When one accepts that the vulnerable is truly what unites us as human beings we can cry for the other as much, if not more, than we cry for ourselves. How deeply does your suffering go? Does it connect you to others? It can, but only if you are willing to allow it to flourish. What do I mean by that? Why do we cry? What is at its root? Will you take a good look? If you do, then you must be willing to change who you are. 

I have returned...happily so!

 (I)

      Awareness is Time, Time is Awareness*

Absolute time is both timeless and aware. This is something to look at carefully. There is time as the movement of the hands on a clock, the movement of the days and nights, the movement of birth and death, the movement of....

However, in lived time, i.e., the absolute present, time is pure awareness. Awareness, in this sense of the word, is time itself. Awareness lives in and as present time, living time. Anticipation is not a product of awareness. Consequently, it is not a product of time. Regret is not a product of time. Time is the watcher, the witness to it all. Awareness is the watcher. All else moves into and out of awareness and time. If we live in time we live in awareness. 

Time is the home of tranquility, peace, silence, and the absolute condition for all appearances, for all of life as living. Awareness is alive as time itself.

It is found in the silence of sound, the dark of light and the formless in form, the touchless in touch, the scentless in smell, the tasteless in taste. Find it there and you have found that which makes all possible and actual. It is also the deathless and that which truly lives. One may become aware of and in this. You may find it in the heart, the source itself.

 

This is my offering and a prayer for all of us who wish to end confusion and a great deal of turbulence that living brings our way.

Perhaps more should be said and maybe you will add it here as a comment or your offering. We would certainly appreciate it. 

(Thank you for reading. As always, more to come...)

                 (II)

Timelessness is now, present time. Conventional time is thought time; words are required; a linear concept of time is generated wherein the past, present, and future are not simply distinguished but separated along an implicit conceptual linearity. 

 

 

* This is not philosophy despite appearances, i.e., using philosophical language. Like most other entries, it is more of a set of instructions that aim to guide one from thought back to direct experience. Use a gentle intention to direct you to awareness and then rest in that awareness which abides in the present. In empty awareness you will find rest, peace, and tranquility.