Distinctions

Distinctions:

at some point there no longer seems to be the need to make distinctions, certain ones at least, what was once labeled as spiritual issues are laid aside for the sake of simply being alive, engaged with life on every level, and matters called on to debate no longer hold an interest. Yes, I meditate, and I have what might be called a spiritual practice, one of inquiry and art, creative and full of curiosity and wonder. My bookshelves are full of classic titles of spirituality and I still enjoy them along with new discoveries.

but there’s nothing to gain from this, no destination of enlightenment.

I have arrived.

sort of.

what I’ve really discovered is that every beginning and endpoint is in truth the same exact location, and that only a distinction of apparent measure implies a destination. I will never be enlightened, not in the sense that I will gain a greater awareness than what’s existing now, or find myself gifted with a keener state of consciousness that wasn’t mine before. To make distinctions between presence and absence is to miss the motion of the world.

nothing is ever truly missing.

just distinctions made.

this is why debate is futile, again at least on these matters — arguing on the existence of a self is only the…