Pursuit

Pursuit:

it hasn’t been a spiritual pursuit, not really, I’ve never been a seeker in the sense of wishing to find an ultimate answer, or any state of permanent bliss and enlightenment. Yet I’ve explored many paths that might be labeled spiritual, having mediated for several decades now, teaching it, writing of various things that capture my imagination. But it’s never been as an act of pursuit, no frantic energy demanding life to reveal its secrets to me. I know it’s been that way for some, many of my friends actually, and I’m happy that at a certain point that were finally able to lay that energy aside and be content with where they are. Of course there are others who continue there search, frantic or otherwise, and that seems to be their path for now and there’s no reason for me to question their pursuit. It seems to me that we’re always exactly where we’re meant to be, that things couldn’t be any other way than they are at this one and only moment.

we’re all free to explore whatever path we’re on.

so I don’t disparage seekers, nor offer advice on how to step off the spiritual path, or what so often may seem to be a treadmill, endlessly in motion and yet never truly traveling anywhere. I’m not a teacher and far from a guru of any sorts. If given a label I’d much prefer poet and even that might be somewhat of a stretch. What I am is happy, content, at least spiritually so. I’m…