Alert
Walking from the bus stop this morning to the coffee shop next to work, felt awareness came to the forefront...effortlessly.. with a largeness/vastness that was breath-taking. This is the thing....I spend a lot of my waking time thinking about awakening...longing for abiding awakeness. That longing manifests as reading books and watching videos....passing the time in the presence of (what seem to be) fortuitous influences. Remembering to stop and fall back into the feeling of awareness. As I sit here and write, I know how silly I am, continuing to play the role of seeker!!! [Cliche alert] I am what I am seeking....this vast felt awareness is what I am. It is dizzying, and the most natural state there is, though I seem to play the game of forgetting. You ask, how can one forget something so monumental? Forget might be the wrong word. It is not a total I am asleep forgetting....just a moving to the background where it has always dwelt. Hence the move to the foreground this morning. ...