What It Shows

What it shows:

what it shows is seamless — that everything belongs at once, as it is, without true borders that call for things to be a certain way. The world is not divided. A tree isn’t found as an object on it’s own, apart from earth and its reach separate from sky. It’s a seamless touch of one thing, distinct, yet still and always belonging as the whole.

this too, is how we fit in, just as seamless as a tree — our soul is of the earth, roots deep, and our every breath is drawn from sky. This is our belonging. There’s no need to think of heaven, nor wish for any salvation that isn’t present now.

we are home.

to know this, to truly feel at home — we only have to see. For me, this is a headless view, to follow Douglas Harding’s instructions of pointing to any object, noting that it seems independent from my own existence, separate and distant. This is how the world is usually seen, everything in parts, broken from any semblance of being whole. Yet is it so? Is it the only way to see the world?

this inquiry shows otherwise — to continue pointing, but from objects now to something more near. Turning finger towards the seer, to actually point at the source which holds the view…and only more view is found, no face is seen, headless, without seer. It’s impossible to point and see ourselves as a separate source within the…