Member-only story

Tat Tvam Asi

eric mccarty
2 min readOct 25, 2022

--

Tat Tvam Asi — Headless Now — Kindness — Prose Poetry — Moca McCarty Photo

Tat Tvam Asi:

there’s an emphasis on kindness now, just an easy display of care towards conditions of the world, towards others and myself as well. It all seems rather seamless, being unable to separate this deep love that has appeared, that it’s really meant to be shared, given without bias. This is expressed in the Sanskrit term of Tat Tvam Asi, seeing that there truly are no others, we’re all an extension of a single godhood appearing in collection as individual selves, and yet at no point are we ever removed the whole.

and seeing this…we can only offer kindness.

this isn’t philosophical, it’s not an abstract concept that’s realized as a theory, it’s far too practical for that, as kindness is our very foundation, our basic means of being. We live in a universe of cooperation, planets arranged just so, the sun being the perfect distance to provide our proper warmth, plants basking in its light and giving oxygen in return. Our world is a gift, and more so, our bodies operate in this fashion as well, particles forming atoms, countless molecules bonded as a cell, the infinite world is constantly giving of itself for our form and function. There are no real parts here, it’s all a seamless display of cooperation and kindness, an inexpressible wholeness seen in the beauty of creation.

tat tvam asi…yes, being exactly what we are.

and it’s all that really is.

only this.

and it all comes down to kindness.

~

Peace, Eric

--

--

eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

No responses yet