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Occurring
Occurring:
that life itself doesn’t really hold a struggle for us — not in our purest state of being, with the ease of simply being alive, aware, and at home within the world. This doesn’t discount the sorrow and suffering that we so often experience, indeed, it’s more of an acceptance that these are commonplace in their occurrence, aspects of life that can’t be denied and shouldn’t be resisted. Yet life isn’t touched by these concerns, continuing in it’s flow, effortless in surrender…occurring.
of course this can be argued otherwise, our world is torn by war, politics of divisions, a continuing pandemic. It certainly feels a struggle at times and I have often fought my own battles with darkness and despair. But these are issues of living, our everyday means of getting by and making do with the circumstances of our surroundings. Life, in essences, holds all of these concerns without struggle, allowing, offering no resistance to their presence.
life…simply is.
our main issue of struggle is in seeing ourselves as somehow separate from the essence of life, that we are divine by separation and not for the reality of our inclusion. Life itself is divine, holy by very nature and we are an aspect of its flow, at no point separate from the whole. We found ourselves here with no struggle, occurring, spontaneous, aware. The universe too occurring perfectly…