By Looking

By looking:

by looking, and with this we see ourselves as capacity, an empty fullness of life in constant welcome to every seeming appearance and event. Even those we wish would never happen. Capacity has one objective alone and that’s to simply hold, allowing without bias or concern. By looking deeply we can see how little we’ve actually chosen for ourselves, not of the tragic events, nor even the actions that seem to lead to these affairs.

life occurs in mystery.

but this isn’t to debate free will — it’s just a note on appearances, of their welcome throughout every part of life without interference of our care. And there is no saying why other than that this is how reality is, allowing by its very nature and that we are fully deep as aspects of reality. No life is charmed enough to leave away sorrow, to be free of suffering, nor even a casual dislike. We’re alive and that entails all that will be offered — from the pleasure of accomplishment to the distress of failure, the joy of relationships to the loss of those we love. We are the capacity for all of this to be, and it’s room for life to be expressed through every seeming way.

by looking, we see how best we serve in this regard — that as capacity we remain empty of any permanent hold, no grasp of anything dear for very long. Life is too precious to be hoarded by demands, of only choosing…