Overlooking the Ever-Present

Just as we’re always experiencing physical space but overlook it because our attention is absorbed in more colourful aspects of experience, we’re always aware of being but don’t notice it. Awareness of being isn’t overlooked because it’s mysterious or hard to find, but because it’s so close, intimate, familiar. Being is your primary experience, prior to all other experience. While thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions come and go, you – pure being – remain consistently present, unmoving, unchanging, ever-present. You can’t find your being any more than you can see your own eyes – they’re too close. You can’t stand apart from being and know it in subject-object relationship; you can only be it knowingly. Like the sun illuminates itself by simply being itself, you know yourself by being yourself. Don’t reach for your being; sink into it. In this approach, meditation isn’t something we do with our mind; it’s simply remaining as we are.

Just as we’re always experiencing physical space but overlook it because our attention is absorbed in more colourful aspects of experience, we’re always aware of being but don’t notice it. Awareness of being isn’t overlooked because it’s mysterious or hard to find, but because it’s so close, intimate, familiar. Being is your primary experience, prior to all other experience. While thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions come and go, you – pure being – remain consistently present, unmoving, unchanging, ever-present. You can’t find your being any more than you can see your own eyes – they’re too close. You can’t stand apart from being and know it in subject-object relationship; you can only be it knowingly. Like the sun illuminates itself by simply being itself, you know yourself by being yourself. Don’t reach for your being; sink into it. In this approach, meditation isn’t something we do with our mind; it’s simply remaining as we are.