Than What’s Found Present

eric mccarty
2 min readNov 3, 2020
Than What’s Found Present — Poetry — Nonduality

Than what’s found present:

seeking to escape has been my greatest cause of suffering, making a sincere wish for things to be other than what’s found present — any moment but this, and always something better imagined in some far off time. My true suffering happened in my mind.

it’s not that suffering is imagined, anguish is real in the moment it appears and for however long it stays. Pain is…

--

--

eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student