A Personal Science

A personal science:

it’s a personal science, my own investigation of the world — of what appears each moment, how it all unfolds and subtle changes, and if anything remains steady through its motion. It’s about my own belonging. My experience is the focus, from each sense there comes a momentary experiment, a current happening that informs me of a certain aspect of attention.

to begin with listening, it’s the experiment of dawn, before my eyes even open — I hear the world come to me, sounds muted through my slow awakening. Everything is heard softly. My first note is of receiving, nothing is asked for, sounds arrive in early gifts. Birdsong’s singing me awake. Cars in distant travel. Yet something of me remains quiet, still, a simple listening. To this, my eyes now open.

my morning is aware.

again, the world comes to me — seeing is sudden, but gentle too in it’s arrival. Opening my eyes, and it all appears, nothing has been asked for, I am gifted dawn, a new day, and whatever may unfold. I’m seeing, and it’s all a first, cleansed of any day before, I see only what’s now given. For just a moment, that first eyelid of awakening, there are no labels, everything just is for its own sake of reason. I’m without name, no story, just seeing, aware. It’s a seamless morning, all flowing from the point of my awakening. What’s seen is the reality…