Invitation Home

Invitation home:

it’s a difference of experience, that meditation invites us to know our own essence, who we are in relation to the thoughts we hold, and how we are a silent, spacious witness to the mind, aware, and so seamlessly connected to the world. Meditation itself isn’t a philosophy, although there are many schools of thought that surround its practice, but what it truly is — is just an invitation home.

it’s simply sitting, being, and the experience that unfolds.

and that’s what we really are, beingness, always in process of experiencing ourselves through whatever life offers. Our invitation home is only a return to essence, remembering this, and no longer confusing ourselves with the busyness of our current lives. We are a witness, but more so, seamlessly, we are every experience as well, a deep participant, and not removed from any aspect of the world.

our invitation home is to relax as this, our essence, right now.

and that’s meditation.

it seems now that modern philosophy, and so often the current study of consciousness, removes itself from this participation, or at least attempts to do so, leaving things as abstractions, distant, and not believing that we’re already involved in the world, everything, and neither science nor philosophy is the exception. Nothing is removed from…