The Awakening Process does require Space.
Space within a life, Space for it,
For Awareness to appear and to settle,
For Awareness to become Aware of Itself,
For Awareness to become Aware of the Surroundings,
Awareness as Awareness.
And that requires Presence.
Being in a Moment,
Residing in a Moment,
Marinating in a Moment.
Not dog-paddling to stay in one particular spot, or one Moment.
It’s floating along…through time, as time,
As the only Moment that Is,
Now.
Now is not a time on the continuum,
Between past and future.
Now is This Moment.
And when it passes…
Bloop…
It’s gone.
The beauty of that is…it’s still Now.
Awakening needs the Space to be in The Now.
When I say marinate, it is
Allowing experience to engulf you, and
Allowing the sense of self to meld and merge with
Everything that is around.
It’s the sense of self, the Ego, the identity,
Which latches on to a Time,
Which latches on to a Moment, but
Which also ruminates about
The past, or tries to control the future.
When the mind is in the past, or
When the mind is anticipating the future,
It is not in The Now, and
Awareness Recognizes Awareness in The Now,
So life requires the Space…to Be.
You may be act in The Now
You may participate in The Now, but
That means that your focus is on your action,
Your focus is on your Participation…
In The Now.
In the busy life of a human is that always possible?
No.
But as you practice being in The Now,
You can spend more and more time in The Now.
But you have to create the Space to be in The Here and The Now.
That’s metaphorical space-creation.
My life actually has actual space-creation,
As I sit on Elephant Rock,
With the water going by,
With the dogs adventuring in places I cannot see,
Green surrounds,
There are no people here,
It is possible to be in The Now.
But I have actively created this Space.
There is work to do,
There are things to interact with,
There is food to buy, and
While doing that I will try to remain Present.
However, in the Space that I carve up for myself every day,
Presence is All.
The practice is to allow nothing else in but Presence,
In whatever form it takes,
Whatever form it appears.
Touching Here,
Touching Now,
Having a Space,
That is essential as
Part of the Awakening Process.
Even if for short bursts a few times a day.
Consider that as you consider,
Your Path-walking.
