Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.Lao Tzu
A big part of our experience of the world is to know things as "things". We look around and see trees, buildings, people. Sometimes we notice their beauty, sometimes we don't.
Something special and amazing happens when we look beyond ideas of beauty/ugliness, interest/disinterest, and all the other concepts that we form around the phenomena in our world.
To experience something – not as something, but as being – to soften your gaze and experience the stillness and the vast infiniteness hidden inside of it, is to catch a glimpse of its true nature.
In doing this, all labels fall away and you're left with the presence of sacredness. You are filled with a sense of joy and wonder. Like a river of nameless energy is moving between you and that which you are observing, adjoining the common stillness between you and it.
The sacredness of being, without attachment or judgment.
I like to have fun with this wherever I am. At a stoplight on my way to work, or while taking a walk, or just while sitting at home. Connecting with sunlight breaking through clouds, a tree moving gently in the breeze, a person walking by, or with myself in the quietness of meditation. Connecting with that sense of joy and completeness found in the experience of pure being.
I encourage you to see and feel the stillness in all things, the emptiness, the sacred source that all things return to. Yourself included.
The Divine in me recognizes and honors the Divine in you.Namaste